Some Basic SEO Tips which you Might be Missing!
Today we will discuss about some basic SEO tips which you might be missing on your own website or blog. I know that these are some really basic tips only, but still there are chances that we might forget them while implementing.
Normally my mood is not like that which can swing a lot. Don’t know why but today my mood is a bit upset and I don’t want to write anything. But then since I decided to publish a blog daily on my blog I News India, I thought I should choose a topic which is quite easier for me to write upon.
And hence I picked up this topic on SEO.
No matter how big or small your website is, no matter if you developed your website for fun or for some business purposes, but then you will have to accept the fact that the traffic from search engines are the best and very effective method of getting free traffic to your website. I already have shared the blog post on different SEO tips like top 10 SEO tips and tricks for your blog in 2014, or 10 SEO factors which you might not ignore in developing a business website and a few more.
I am quite sure you all know those basic things and almost all of us follow them too on our website. This blog post of mine will discuss about some very basic things which we normally forget about implementing on our website as far as SEO is concerned.
Basic SEO Tips which you Might be Missing!
Some Basic SEO Tips which you Might be Missing!
Some Basic SEO Tips which you Might be Missing!
So here are some basic SEO tips which you might be missing on your website or blog:
Google Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools
Being an SEO having around 10+ years of experience I can easily understand the importance of Google Webmaster tools and with my own experience I can easily say that few website owners or bloggers are out here that actually missed configuring webmaster tools account for their website.
Am I wrong?
Are you also falling in the same bracket?
Have you not yet set up the Google webmaster tools account for your website or blog?
If the answer of the last two questions which I asked above is a Yes, then automatically my first question from above becomes a No. And if you are also falling in the same group of people then please don’t worry about that. I am here to help you to understand those things only.
Commonly we did the set up of Google Analytics on our website or blog at the time of installing the same only. But normally we do fail adding our website on Google Webmaster Tools.
To be very frank, if you are the owner of a website or blog then it is a must to configure your Google Webmaster tools account as it will help you in doing SEO of your website. Although your keyword positioning suggested by GWT is not that much reliable, but still it can have some other features like getting notification in case of some malware found on your website, or getting notification against any manual penalties, any types of crawl errors, number of pages indexed, and many more.
By the way, meanwhile you should never forget to add the XML sitemap in GWT accounts of your website or blog. This is vital.
Broken Links on Your Website
Broken Links on Your Website
One of the things which I too usually ignore on my websites is broken links. No doubt links plays very crucial role in the SEO of your website, no matter if it is your inbound links or the outgoing links from your website.
As far as incoming links are concerned, their quality also matters a lot on your website. We all know about it and remain careful about the quality of incoming links. But normally we do ignore outbound links from our own website.
The quality of outbound links influences the SEO of your website. Mainly broken links are vital. It can kill your website as well. You just need to take care of those broken links from your website, try to rectify them, edit them or delete them and clear your website from broken links.
Site Loading Time
Site Loading Time
To make our website or blog fashionable, we normally ignore the main SEO factors and it is of site loading time. Normally flashy websites or sites having too heavy graphics or images look good to human eyes. But then it increases the loading time of the site, as uploading of those things take much more time than normal websites.
As I mentioned in some old blog posts of mine that site loading time is considered as one of the main SEO factors for any websites, so ignoring this might harm the prospect of your website.
Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools
Similar to Google Webmaster Tools Bing also has a webmaster tools. How many of you do know about this?
During last one or two years Bing has improved them brilliantly. If you really want to think about optimizing your website with your target keywords, it can be an ideal place for you along with WMT data.
So I would suggest every website owner to do implement the same and add your website to your Bing Webmaster Tools account.
Social Media
Social Media
Most of the website or blog owners do this mistake of ignoring social media signals of their site. You know what Google is giving too much importance on social media signals.
The basic reason behind this attention which Google is giving to social media signals is that these days Google think that everybody has an account on social media sites like FaceBook, Twitter, G+, etc. and whenever they like something, they simply like it and share it on those sites as well.
No matter what types or how less social media signals your website is getting, but you should not ignore them for the SEO of your website. Do monitor them and try to respond to them as well.
Google SERP
Google SERP
The last but not the least point which is coming into my mind at this moment of time is your presence on search engine result page i.e. SERP. Do search for your potential keywords and see where you are ranking. Prepare a list of those data and analyze them carefully.
It will definitely help you to track your websites presence on search engines.
Here is a summary of the points which you should take care of while doing SEO of your website or blog:
- Google Analytics
- Google Webmaster Tools
- XML Sitemap
- Indexing Status
- Crawling Errors
- Informative, Unique and Quality Content
- Optimizing Title Tags
- Alt tags
- External Links from your site
- Broken Links of your website
- Quality of Incoming Links
- Social Media Sharing
What are your thoughts on SEO? Do let me know if you liked this blog post of mine or not? I’d love to hear your comments, feedbacks, and any suggestions for my blog posts.
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Hi friends, my name is Alok Vats, and I am the owner of this website I News India. From last six years I am trying to build this website, I started this website from scratch and then with the help of my friends like Pooja, Prachi, and Divya I published many articles over here. Recently Harshita, Tanmay and Aayushi too joined my website, and am really glad to share some articles written by them over here. I am sure many of you would love the same. These days I am managing the site with myself only and the focus is to share blogs on the topics like Blogging Tips, Self Improvement, SEO, and all other things which can make you to enhance your life.
Basic tips but gets missed sometimes. As soon as I knew about bing webmasters tool, I submitted my blog’s sitemap. But bing has not indexed my site till now. They take a long time for it.
Thanks a lot Fatima for sharing your comment over here. Yes it is true that Bing takes a long time to index, but then you need not to worry about them so much. Simply focus on making your blog the best one and see how bing and other search engines are started indexing your blog. 🙂
Thanks ALOK, each day you keep updating so many new bloggers like me with so much important information that we can use 🙂
Thanks a lot Ananya. Your appreciation really means a lot to me 🙂 This is the words like these only which motivates me to write further similar blogs 🙂
I didn’t knew that BING has webmaster tools..will check it. Thanks for this informative post
You are most welcome Nithesh. I am glad that my blog post provided you something which you were not aware of 🙂
Very informative post alok…! Getting to know lot of information through your posts 🙂
Thanks a lot Bhavani for such a nice appreciating words for my blogs 🙂
This is pretty cool :).. I recently registered to the Google Webmaster tools. Reading this post now, I will add myself to the bing webmaster tools as well. That should help add a little more traffic. I am also trying to use slide share and youtube of late. Hope they turn a little better with time.
It is nice to keep updated on SEO and maintenance of a site Alok, thanks for pushing it today 🙂 . .Hope all is well now 🙂
Hey Vinay thanks a lot for these kind words. But buddy you take it wrong, adding your site on Bing or Google webmaster tools will not help you to add a little more traffic, but it will help you to track whatever traffic you are getting. It will give you the ideas about what basic or advanced things your website is lacking. 🙂
Hey Alok, another awesome post from your brain. The tips are quite handy and should be helpful to both newbies and experts. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thanks a lot Niladri. I am really delighted that you found this blog post as informative 🙂 Hope it should help others as well.
A great post on a great subject. Alok Bhai Sahab you have really covered every aspect of the subject. Thanks
Thank you Sampat Kumari Jee 🙂 I am really thankful to you that you appreciate my efforts so much. I really get inspiration from these appreciations 🙂
Great SEO basic tips. All this point must consider for everyone blogs. This information will be improve blogs web traffic.
Thank you Jey Ganesh. I am glad that you liked them. 🙂 Thanks for your comment over here.
Perfect check list for beginners and of course for everyone. I am expecting a next article on broken links. Hope you will come up with one.
Thank you so much Sasidhar, I will definitely write a blog on Broken Links as well. Thank you for suggesting this to me 🙂