On-Page Search Engine Optimization guide
This 9 steps On-Page Search Engine Optimization Guide will help you optimize your website pages, so they will have the best chance to get found by your target market. This guide outlines the most important factors to consider when optimizing each page on your site. This steps are listed based on importance, so don't skip a step. Also, remember that creating new optimized content on a weekly basis is critical to achieving long-term success with SEO.
Step 1:- Choose Keywords
Read the page's content and identify two keywords that are most relevant to the overall page content. Choose one primary keyword relevant to the page's content. If you can't identify one primary keyword for a page, you'll need to create new website pages to separate the different content. If it's not clear to you what page is about, then your visitors and the search engines won't be able to understand the page either.
Step 2:- Page Title
The page title appears as the blue, bolded, underlined text on a Google search results page. The page title should follow these guidelines:-
- Be under 70 characters with no more than two long-tail keywords per page title.
- The primary keyword should appear first.
- Each keyword phrase should be separated by pipes(|).
- Each page title on your website should be unique.
- Except for your homepage and contact us page, each page title should not include your business name.
Step 3:- Meta Description
The meta description appears on a google search results page under the Page title. The meta description helps people decide whether to click on your result or another. Think of it as a call to action. The meta description has following guidelines:-
- Be under 150 characters but not under 100 characters, take advantage of the space you have. More you write more it effect.
- Incorporate primary keyword and at least one secondary keyword.
- Provide a valuable reason for why someone should visit the page.
- Include keywords in a conversational format. Don't just cram in keywords for the sake of listing them
Step 4:- URL
The website page's URL should include the primary keyword. Each word in the URL should be separated using dashes(-).
EX:- www.codinindia.com/SEO-marketing
Step 5:- Heading Tags
The page should have one H1 (heading tag) that incorporates the primary keyword, and should align with the page title and the URL of the page. This H1 tag should appear at the top of the page and should be the first thing people see when they arrive on the page.
Step 6:- Page Content
Use your primary keyword a few times throughout the page's content. Don't overthink keyword density or placement, you should mention them naturally. Try to bold or underline the keyword at lest once. This has an effect on how relevan the keyword is to the page. Also mention the secondary keywords when you can.
Step 7:- Add a Call to action
Every website page, including your blog, should have at least one call to action above the page's fold i.e. Don't make your website visitor scroll down to see the call to action. Call to action can help SEO by creating an internal link on your website t a specific landing page. Most calls to action are images, therefore you can optimizing the image filename and alt text for the primary keyword you are targeting on the page (see Step 9).
Step 8:- Internal Links
If you mention the primary keyword of this page on others within your website, then link to this page using the primary keyword as the anchor tag. For Example:- you should link to a page about SEO marketing by Codin India using the anchor tag "SEO-marketing-by-Codin-India. To make sure this is completed, take a moment to create one or two links on related pages that link back to the page you're optimizing.
Step 9:- Images
Any images used on the page should be optimized so that search engine can "read" the image. Optimize the most prominent image on the page using the primary keyword, and then use the primary and secondary keywords for any other images, Images can be optimized in two ways:-
- File name:- Each word should be separated with dashes (-), i.e. SEO-marketing.jpg
- ALT text:- The alt text should match the file name, without dashes, i.e. SEO marketing.
Meta Keywords:-
They aren't part of Google's or Bing's Search algorithms, so we aren't including them as a step. However, still use your primary and secondary keywords in the page's meta keywords. Smaller search engines still might use them in their algorithm, but major search engine do not use them. So we doesn't recommend you optimize your meta keywords.
Repeat these steps for each of your website pages.
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