SEO-Myths Revealed

Masoom Tulsianis discovers the latest trend which deals with Search Engine Optimization for Web 2.0. Search Engines are regularly updating their algorithms that are used to rank content from the web. It is important to keep abreast of these changes and ensure that your website meets their crawling criteria and gets indexed.

The latest support of the 'no-follow' tag in blog comments by the major search engines has closed yet another loophole. Webmasters that used to plant and stuff links in the blog comment fields provided by sites like Blogger and Myspace now find them in a state of jeopardy as those links are not credited by the search engines.

There was a time when the metatags of HTML were used by spammers, and was enough to improve your page rankings. The preferred keywords were stuffed hundred of times. But nowdays, the search engines do not give preference to meta name and contents and penalize sites that use such techniques.

SEO can be a hard task to articulate, but one has to keep trying to expertise the tricks.

They say “ Make hay while the sun shines” . It is important to take advantage of the loopholes and the pitfalls in the search engine algorithms until they are blocked.

SEO is a fickle game, and does not happen overnight. There have been so many websites that have been doomed because they could not understand the basic norms of SEO.

A few simple tweaks and a little bit of creativity in your writing process could see your site ranking considerably higher.

Though, there are plenty of areas to look upon before getting the trick of SEO. The niches that need to be exploded and utilized are:-

Quality Content

Start with quality content on a specific topic and in course of time, you will see the results. Search Engines always give preference to original contents. Avoid Duplicate contents and repeated sentences. The art of writing, needs to be developed. Keep it simple and sassy, and you will see the spiders flowing.

Keyword Rich Content - Identify a few keywords for your article that you think the users would search on.

Keywords in heading tags Keywords in image alt tags Keywords in post and page titles Keywords in URL of page

You can also try tweaking it to include the words you are targeting a couple of extra times.