My 5 SEO Tips for 2010

You often hear about SEO from a wide variety of sources, and most of these speak about advance techniques which go beyond the general webmaster. A lot of the advance techniques you read about are not usually needed when you are in the planning stages of your new website, and thus no use to you.

Apologies for the late post (Should have posted this a month earlier!) however these are my 5 SEO tips for 2010 that I’m now sharing with you all:

1. Optimise all your code before sending the new website live
   • This is likely to become a concluding ranking factor in the near future for the Google SERPs
   • Many tools are available to help you optimise your code such as Google Page Speed and Yahoo’s YSlow

   
   

2. Remove all possible internal duplications. This could be in the form of:
   
   • Parameters in the URL
   • Duplicate Meta Descriptions and Titles
   • On-page duplicate content
   • Product Descriptions
   • Contact Details
   • Duplicate URLs
   • Cannonicalisation (non-WWW, /index.php etc.)
   • Friendly/Unfriendly URLs
3. Optimise for local search by adding the spice of localisation to your site by…
   
   • Local addresses and postcodes
   • Using maps
   • Submit your site to some local directories such as Yell
     
4. Optimise well for Social Media. Search Engines are increasing their interaction with Social Media
   • Have the option for users to submit your page/article to a wide variety of social sites. Implement this in the development stage
   • Create profiles for your site across the popular social media sites
   • A quick search for social media optimisation on Google will return lots of resources and information
     
5. Update/Add content regularly to your site at all levels
   • This has been mentioned to you numerous times to emphasise that this really is important
   • Remember Content is King
   • Have a different news feed to all you primary categories and filter specialist posts for each
     For example, the Just Search services page has specialist feeds

Keep the above 5 points in mind when in the early planning stages of your new site and be sure to implement these in the design/development stage.

If you do this, you can be sure the above will do for your SEO campaign because these are my 5 SEO Tips for 2010!

Ahmed Bhula
Natural SEO Programmer