SEO
it from the ground up
You
have done all of your keyword research and
you know what keywords people are using to
find and purchase your products and
services. It is time to build a site that
will not only reflect those product and
services but will raise to the top of the
search engines for those terms so that the
people who are searching for your product
and services will be able to find them.
Plan
on grouping your keywords
For
each page of your website you will want to
target different keywords. Most webmasters
commit the grievous error of copying the
header of their index page onto all their
pages to save time DO NOT DO THIS!
To
maximize the potency of each page for its
targeted keyword search phrases plan on
optimizing for a "maximum" of 3
keyword terms. Also group "like
terms" so that you may increase your
keyword density with much less effort.
Example:
Keywords: widget, blue widgets, wingdings,
widgets, green wingdings, wingding. In
this list you have two very obvious
groupings "wingding group" and
"widget group" Therefore the
proper way to optimize is to assign
"Page A" to one group and
"page B" to the other. If these
2 pages and subjects were your entire site
then the more competitive group would be
optimized for on the index page as it
usually has the highest page rank
|
Page
A
|
Page
B
|
widget
blue widgets
widgets
|
wingdings
green wingdings
wingding
|
Now
that you have your keywords organized you
must choose which pages are best optimized
for which keywords. If you have 30
keywords then you must have at least 10
pages. (Of course you will never let the
number of keywords limit the number of
pages within your site hence the "at
least"*)
Now
start thinking about your topics ask
yourself "how many products do i
have?" and "what other services
do I offer?" also consider what else
you want to provide within your
architecture. Do you want to tell people
about yourself or your company? Do you
need an order page, a contact page or a
disclaimer? All these things should be addressed
so that you are not creating
"extra" pages that are
unnecessary just to fit your keywords in
somewhere.
Finally
once you have decided which pages fit with
which keywords name each page to reflect
the most competitive keyword for that
page. Create an excel reference file so
that later when consider your "off
page" characteristics you have an
easy map THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT!
|
(most
important keyword of this
page).html
|
Keyword
A,B,C
|
|
(most
important keyword of this
page).html
|
Keyword
D,E,F
|
|
(most
important keyword of this
page).html
|
Keyword
H,I,J
|
You
will reference this spreadsheet when
considering the target location and anchor
text of inbound links. More on this
later...