If you like our DIY seo guide, Del.icio.us it! A sort-of-beginners-guide to on-site and on-page seo FAQ. I think you could read these (about) 30 posts and go away and create a successful site. I deliberately steered clear of things that might be a bit gray, and I assume you’ve done your keyword research – I might go into that shortly. I just wanted to stay largely onsite seo for the duration of the tutorial, and lay down actual seo advice you could use. I knocked them out with no little planning – so forgive me if the advice is a bit all over the place. I will be checking the information again, after a break.

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SEO FAQ

You may want to read our What Is SEO and of course, get to know each search engine specific guidelines for inclusion.

1. Optimise Page Titles
2. SEO Meta Descriptions
3. Optimal Keyword Meta Tags
4. Robots Metatag
5. H1 Heading Tags
6. How Many Words To Rank
7. Optimal Keyword Density
8. Link Internal To Relevant Pages
9. Link Out To Related Sites
10. Redirect Non WWW To WWW, Google
11. Optimize ALT Tags
12. Search Engine Friendly URLs
13. Keywords In Bold & Italic
14. Absolute / Relative URLS
15. Directories / Files
16. PHP, HTML or ASP
17. Valid HTML & CSS
18. 301 Old Pages
19. On-Site Duplicate Content Issues
20. Fix Broken Links
21. XML Sitemaps
22. Nofollow Internal Links
23. Only The First Link Counts?
24. Link To Important Pages
25. Bonus – Put your keywords early in page copy – like high up in the code.
26. Bonus 2 – Read Google Webmaster Guidelines

There’s a few things I won’t go into on this site. Unlike some, I won’t discuss blackhat seo on this blog at the moment at least. Nor promote specific tactics that would cause another site issues even if I do find a social network that with a few posts you can swamp Google results. I won’t talk about specific on-site seo test I might do – as Google could easily give me the information they wanted (Tin Foil Hat On of course). I have a few processes and an order of optimisation I’m not quite ready to post yet, but I will probably. I’ve got loads of little tests going on in various corners of the web testing one thing or another – I love that sort of thing. I a not looking how to break Google, more how to work with it. I’ll share the info once I get the results but hey it’s free advice, worth every penny paid. I’ve certainly tried to keep readers right. I don’t really surmise a lot on this blog – not as much as I would like to anyways.

Hope you enjoyed the posts and thought they were of use – I’m taking a small break for a while to go play in the social networks – see you about Now, you should be linkbuilding or linkbaiting. Check out our beginners guide to linkbuilding. NOTE – Our DIY SEO guide has been updated: Go to Google SEO – Learn Search Engine Optimisation Basics.