[scylla]

I originally posted this thread over two years ago on another site but you should still find these tips very useful today.

Originally Posted by http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=56953

Use your targeted keyword phrase:

*In META keywords. It's not necessary for google, but a good habit. Keep your META keywords short (128 characters max, or 10).

*In META description. Keep keyword close to the left but in a full sentence.

*In the title at the far left but possibly not as the first word.

*In the top portion of the page in the first sentence of first full bodied paragraph (plain text: no bold, no italic, no style).

*In a H3 or larger heading.

*In bold--second paragraph if possible and anywhere but the first usage on page

*In italic-- anywhere but first usage.

*In subscript-superscript.

*In url (directory name, filename or domain name) do not duplicate the keyword in the url.

*In an image filename used on the page.

*In ALT tag of that previous image mentioned.

*In the title attribute of that image.

* In link text to another site.

* In an internal links text.

* In title attributes of all links targeted in and out of page.

* In the file name of your external CSS (cascading style sheet).

* In an inbound link on site (preferably from your homepage).

* In an inbound link from offsite (if possible)

* In a link to a site that has a pagerank of 8 or better.

* Keep ratio of text to HTML very high. Text should out weigh HTML by significant amounts.

* The traffic comes when you figure out that 1 refferal a day to 10 pages is better than 10 refferals a day to 1 page.

* You should use as many as these tips as possible without over-doing it, otherwise if you do use all the tips for a single page, chances are it'll turn into just spider bait instead of unique content.

[wendy_m]

In an inbound link from offsite (if possible)

If you have a flickr account, link to your site from the descriptions in the photos (only if they are relevant to your content), ditto for myspace and facebook accounts. Besides its always good to save a little storage and bandwidth by hosting photos offsite.

*In META keywords. It's not necessary for google, but a good habit. Keep your META keywords short (128 characters max, or 10).

It is good also to include a few short (relevant) phrases that could also double as search terms, remember there are always people that will type a fully formed question into a search engine, you will almost always land on the 1st page in the results if you have something like "how to fix lamps" right in the key words when someone asks Google "how to fix a lamp?"

*In the top portion of the page in the first sentence of first full bodied paragraph (plain text: no bold, no italic, no style).

The problem with this one is that the writing of the first paragraph often suffers in exchange for pr. I'd argue that it's better to cater to the readers (which will return your focus with some link love or a few stumbles) than to write "business first and well later"

All in all though, excellent tips.

[Turrant]

Great tips i thought knew most of the stuff already but i learned a fe new tricks thanks

[rpf_81]

Your tips are very useful for me...

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