To get optimal listings in search engine and directory queries, keywords and key concepts must be placed strategically throughout your web pages. To summaries, you need these words and phrases in:
1. Title tags
2. Meta-tags (keywords and descriptions)
3. Headings (if used)
4. Body text, and
Alt-attribute in the image source tags
When online marketing professionals optimize a web site for search engine and directory queries, they should not spend most of their time redesigning the layout (in HTML) or submitting the site to the search engines. Most of their time should be spent on researching, writing good copy that will index well in search engines, and writing thorough, accurate descriptions for directory submissions. Good web copy must contain well-researched and varied keywords and key concepts based on a web page’s topic; accurately reflect the web pages’ content; and be strategically placed throughout a web page as mentioned above.
Most sales and advertising “fluff” should be eliminated.
Here’s an example (and one of our pet peeves). How many of you have seen this scam, “Put your...