Improve Alexa Ranking Tip 5
Improve Alexa Ranking Tip 5 looks at SEO & Alexa Ranking. If your SEO is not upto par then no matter how many articles you write for your blog, your Alexa ranking will not improve! I have seen so many blogs that have great content yet they are buried under millions of other blogs, simply because their SEO efforts are virtually useless, or in some cases even nonexistant.
Therefore this article is going to cover a few of the more crucial SEO factors that you should pay close attention to if you wish to increase your website traffic & ultimately your site’s Alexa ranking.
Now I know there are some of you that are expecting some sort of silver bullet, a little known magic formula, a quick fix ! Well I am sorry to disappoint you my friends, but there is no such thing. What there is however is tried and tested methods of improving your website traffic, which in turn will, without a doubt, improve your Alexa ranking. Why..? Because quite simply Alexa ranking is based almost entirely on your website traffic, after all if you use the correct title it says it all “Alexa Traffic Rank“.
SEO Factors Affecting Ranking
1. Research keywords & phrases.
2. Using the correct heading / title tags. Check that your theme is using a H1 or H2 title tag for your article title. I know of at least one theme that does not do this. Also any other headings throughout the article should not detract from the title, eg if your title uses H1 then use H2 for other headings on the page, if your title uses H2 then use H3 for other headings on the page.
3. Ensure your keywords / keyphrases appear in your title.
4. Place your keywords as far to the left as is possible whilst maintaining readabilty of your title. Search engines give more weight & importance to keywords at the far left of a title.
5. The use of stop words in titles should be avoided as they only dilute the value & weight of your keywords.
6. Try using 2 titles, the 1st title is what appears in the address bar of your browser eg www.your-domain.com/article-title/ & is more for search engine use. A 2nd more elaborate title for humans can be placed at the top of your article (check this article as an example) & can have a positive effect on the ranking of your article.
7. Ensure your keywords / phrases appear in the first 160 characters of paragraph 1. The nearer the begining the better! The first 160 characters are usually the default selection used as a description to your article, therefore keywords placed here will be given more importance by the search engines.
8. Don’t go overboard with keywords & phrases, focus on using 1 or 2 good keywords or phrases throughout your article & at all cost avoid keyword stuffing !! A keyword density of 2.5 to 5.5 is quite acceptable.
9. Choose 3 – 4 tags, these should ideally be single words that indicate what your article is about & at the same time should be terms people would use to search & find your article.
10. Ensure that wherever possible you include your most important keywords / phrases in the last 150 characters of your last paragraph. This simply confirms to the search engines that they have read your article correctly & chosen the correct keywords / phrases to focus on.
Following these steps will ensure your articles are optimized for search engines & as such will now rank much better. This will mean more prominence in search engine results, which in turn will increase your sites traffic & ultimately your Alexa Ranking.
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Posted by Steve Nickson
on Nov 7 2011. Filed under Blog Promotion.
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