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Written on October 4, 2008 – 2:29 am

SEO has been a must-do-stuff for website owner. But many people still confused about this, especially how to do the optimization. 90% of clients and prospects we met has asked about this. Questions varied from what is SEO to how to do it effectively.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is essential especially when you bring the business to the internet. It is a way to make your website listed in the search engine results. Well, not just getting listed, but gets high ranking so it is easier to be found and recognized by internet user (or customers in business’ case).

You can pay to get listed, it’s faster but there’s risk as well because anyone can increase their keyword bid to kick you out. And also, it can be relatively expensive when we go to the pay-per-click system.

What I would suggest here is doing the unpaid version of SEO. You don’t need cash, but it takes time and effort. There’re two factors that affect your listing:

1. The On-site Optimizations are everything you do in your website, including optimizing META Tags like titles, keywords, descriptions, text on your home page, etc. You have complete controls over this and it’s the first and easier part to get started. The down side is, it only give 25-30% of impact to the overall optimization.

2. The Off-site Optimizations are everything beneath your direct control, but control 70-75% of your optimizations. The amount and quality of websites that link to yours are indicators of how interesting your contents are. When a good well-known website links to your site, your rank will go up very much higher.

Those are general knowledge about SEO. To go in details, here are 6 tips you can apply.

1. URL address matters
When you decide to own a website, it’s best to register your own domain name, ie. www.yourcompany.com, rather than using a free hosting. URL address like yourcompany.wordpress.com or yourcompany.blogspot.com only give good optimization to wordpress.com or blogspot.com. Your company or product brand (if you develop a website for a specific brand) will not have effective SEO.

2. META Tags matter
Be sure to fill up your page title with your business name, keywords with words and phrases related to your business, descriptions with the best sentences describing your business. When we search in Google, these META Tags appear in results.

3. Home Page contents
These contents appear in search results too. That’s why, if we have a close look, about 90% of good websites have text describing the company and business in the home page. It can be welcome text that greets visitors, news and articles that keep updating frequently.

4. Frequently updated contents
Search engines love to visit new stuffs. When you posted something new to your site, either it’s in Home page or sub pages, they will drop by and have a look and push your site up in their listing. In other words, if you love your site, they will love your site too. That’s one of the reasons why nowadays many companies have blogs.

5. Optimize your PR to optimize search engine
When your PR department writes a press release, asked them to always include the website address and highlight it so it’s easier to be seen. Readers will click on the address and increase the visitors to your site. The more people pays a visit to your site, the more higher your ranking is.

6. Use social media
Social media can help increase your website popularity. Your ‘friends’ will come to your site and it definitely make your ranking higher in search engine. It’s also an excellent way to share your company profile, articles and press release. Build up networks and begin answering questions that might occur.

SEO is not an easy job, though it sounds easy when reading the tips above. It really takes a continuous time and efforts to do. It’s not a one day work but it can take months or years to succeed. However, it worths to do. What’s the use of having a website if nobody even knows it exist?

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