What are the major techniques used in SEO?

[techguy]

Can anyone suggest me the major techniques used by web developers in making the site get listed in the first page of any search engine?

[Dököll]

Try the Meta:

<-- For speakers of US English -->
<META name="keywords" lang="en-us" 
         content="vacation, Greece, sunshine">
<-- For speakers of British English -->
<META name="keywords" lang="en" 
         content="holiday, Greece, sunshine">
<-- For speakers of French -->
<META name="keywords" lang="fr" 
         content="vacances, Gr&egrave;ce, soleil">

I must say however, I have not tried this for JSPs as of yet, but, adding items such as the above and making sure you post your site to a wonderful search engine will get you first in line:-)

Meta listings will allow search engines to find your site when items you have on your site are added to seach boxes.

This may also be a something to ask in the HTML forum, as said, I have not yet tried this for JSPs.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.2

http://bytes.com/topic/html-css/answers/

In a bit!

[Frinavale]

I found the following suggestions while googling topic.
The answer is not my own but was provided by "Joel Coehoorn"

• Use "search engine friendly" URLS, i.e. use "example.co m/pages/45-article-title" instead of "example.co m/index.jsp?page= 45"
• Don't use links that say "click here". You're wasting an SEO opportunity and it makes things harder for people with screen readers.
• Have an XML sitemap
• Use <link rel="canonical" ... /> when you have multiple urls that point to the same content
• Use Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer
• Install Google Analytics right at the start
• Know how robots.txt and search engine spiders work
• Rewrite requests asking for yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com to prevent splitting the google ranking between both sites
• Know that there can be bad behaving spiders out there
• If you have non-text content look into Google's sitemap extensions for video etc.

Since this question has nothing to do with Java, I have moved it to the Misc. forum.
-Frinny

[Darren Bowden]

Hi there,

To be honest with online marketing there is no quick gains or special code that you can input to ensure first page rankings, if there is then these will probably be 'black hat'.

I strongly suggest that you you ensure that the website(s) that you create all have a 200 HTTP Status Code on each page. In addition to this I would ensure that the website has an optimised 404 page, this basically means that you create links on the 404 page so that if a visitor finds a dead page or a bot does then they can continue on your site.

Once you have done this I would then make sure that the website only has one URL per page (website wide duplication), the most common is www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com.

Once you have done completed the above then you need to ensure that each page has a selected keyword(s) that it is targeting which are used within the content, URL and the page title.

Note with keywords that these should be different on every page and I would strongly suggest to go for keywords that are NOT to competitive.

Once you have done this I would create a sitemap and submit to Google and Bing.

The final advise I would give would be to create a blog which you use for organic linking and also a facebook and twitter account to attract targeted traffic to your site.

[astrallabs]

This was good piece of information.But i was in doubt how much these tags help in better search engine ranking.

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[marketing1on1]

What I suggest you do:
Find expired domain with Pr3+ and purchase it.
Redirect that domain to the site that you are trying to rank
Create micro sites (wordpress.com, blogspot etc.) and post at least 1-2 articles per week on them. Make sure all the articles are unique and human readable.
Insert the max 1-3 links in your articles pointing back to your site.
Create xRumer blast to your microsites.

That should do it.

[Fary4u]

keyword are most important. and clear date value using DIV or Html5 contents.

[067robert]

major tecniques are forum posting,article submission and bookmarking

[sharmahemal]

first of all do directory submission after u will do social book marking and do blog submission and do form submission this all are off page optimization after u will do on page optimization definitively in three month your website page rank will in top 3 pages in google.com

[aurobindosahoo]

Now most of the technology adopted in SEO as Link building, SMO, SEM and brand marketing and many more.

[joshcooper]

Hi techguy,

You have to start with the basics:
Create a good site.
Create a sitemap and submit it.
Crate a robots.txt file to block certain pages from being indexed (user log in or tags / categories pages)
Utilize Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics.
Make sure you tell Google what URL you are using, such as http://www.site) or (http://site), basically picking if your using the www or not.
Write good title tags, using the keyword you are trying to rank for in them.
Write a good meta description, attracting searchers to click on the link.
Start to build good quality links.
Make sure to completely diversify your link profile, as the last thing you want is your brand new site to bet penalizes or de-indexed.
Use social media to drive traffic to your site. Social Media does not necessarily boost your rankings, but it drives traffic, which in turn if people share your site or pages, tells Google that your site is worthy and can become a authority in your industry.


Justin

[leadcreation]

Hello TechGuy,
I suggest you to work honestly and continuously. Try to write guest post and blog comments with your best content. Solve every issue related to customer service on your social media page.

[sptechnolab]

SEO mainly has two parts On Page and Off Page.For new website first concentrate on On page by tageting niche keywords .Then perform off page activities such as submissions, content posting etc.

[aleciagibbons14]

every SEO specialist have their own way how, for me first blog commenting then social bookmarking , creating social media account for your link building, doing that basic it makes your website gain traffic .

[manchun]

Most of the users are already added some important SEO techniques. i want to say that you should follow only organic method to improve the website ranking and traffic.