9 Basic And Still Valid Search Engine Optimization Tips

Everyone’s list of things to work on increases almost on daily basis, and it rally can be hard to find space for the newest things to be added and prioritized. 

This is mostly true of new ways to do things, new tools and new tactics etc, change is good, but it can be really Hard. Things change quickly these days, so let’s take a look at some things on Search engine optimization that you should know about today.

1. Title Tags

Still Very important – keep them relevant to the content on the page – don’t skip them.

2. Meta Descriptions

Still very useful – keep them relevant also and think of them as your call to action to the searcher. What will you say that gets their attention and their click?  Here also, don’t leave them blank.

3. Social Media

  This is Incredibly as important as you’ve heard, and to clarify it more, it means what happens socially can impact your rankings.  

Having more Likes or Retweets can boost your rankings, and also help add to the overall picture of the value that search engines seek to understand. And does it ever hurt to engage with your customers? of course not, it rather adds seasoning...:)

4. Mobile

With the rapid, recent growth of sales in tablets and smartphones, it’s no surprise that businesses are starting to pay more attention to their mobile presence, which is very important. if you’re on the fence about your own mobile presence, now is the time to make a decision.

 Responsive Design is all the rage in the industry as mobile is this year‘s watchword. Just make sure your decision is to invest in your mobile presence, because this trend isn’t going away, it’s only going to grow bigger.

5. Crawling

 Most Search  engines follows the robots.txt protocol. But do you know how to properly implement it? Do you know that if you stack commands in the wrong order, you can change the outcome of your crawling? 

When using the robots.txt protocols, its good to spend some time reviewing http://www.robotstxt.org/ site to make sure you don’t Negatively alter the way search engines see your site.

 If you use Blogger.com, You can Just leave the Settings in default, if you don't know how to use them.

6. Links
Inbound links: Still the same old way here. They are still very useful and needs to be organic. Links are worth securing when you can, But they must and need to be relevant to what you post on your site. Outbound links: You're still judged by who you link to, so choose sites you link to carefully.

7. URLs
keep them crawl able , Keep them clean.  Don’t hide links inside Iframes, Javascripts or Flash.

8. Duplication
it’s time to get immersed in this useful way of managing duplicate content issues, Remove duplicate contents, articles and posts.


9. HTML 5
Currently, HTML5-based sites remain in the minority, but the message of the value this fresh approach offers is spreading. 

For now the adoption is still low, but growing. As more sites adopt HTML5, it’ll become a standard. 

All the best.