Optimizing Web Documents

January 23, 2008 | By admin In Web Document |

Doing well on Search Engines should be a big thing in all webmaster’s minds because it can lead to a lot more traffic if done correctly. This is the point of this tutorial. It will explain how to optimize your websites to make your life easier when trying to get higher up in these Search Engines.

Tips

Web Page Names - With your web page names, call them relative to what the content holds, and use good keywords in this. For example page1.html is a good example of a bad page name. It doesn’t give an idea of what the webpage is all about, but if you called the page laptop-information.html, Google can get a lot more from the webpage, and may give you a small edge over other sites that don’t use this technique.
META Tags - Use META Tags in the head section of your web document. Title tags, Keyword tags and Description tags can help to get more traffic from the search engines because people may search for the keywords in your META Keyword tag, which means that your site may display in the results. Find out more about this here.
Images - When you use images on your website, use an alt tag. If you don’t know what one of these is, its a small description about the image. It can make that image appear on Google Image Search, or it can just help with your Search Engine Results. To use these, place alt=”Description” straight after the src=”link” mce_src=”link”. You’ll end up with this code: src=”link” alt=”Description” with obviously the image tags before and afterwards.
Content - Use keyword-rich content on your webpages. Not only will more people be more interested because its more informative, but Search Engines like this.

Enjoy these tips on how to optimize your webpages, and good luck trying to get higher up in the Search Engines.

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