5 Basic SEO Tips You Should Know!

There are some very basic things related with SEO which we normally forget to follow whether willingly or unwillingly too. So here comes my blog post on 5 basic SEO tips you should know.

You all know that recently I shared a blog post on when a business should not ask for a SEO, and how to get the rank you want for your website. Other than those you all know that I usually write blog posts on SEO. You must be remembering that a few days back I shared a blog post on some basic SEO tips which you might be missing.

This blog is having some tips which I missed sharing in the same blog post. Though those tips were having different characteristics than these one, but yes over all if you combine both the blog posts you will get some really good SEO Tips.

5 Basic SEO Tips You Should Know! 

Here are some very basic SEO tips which you might be aware of but might forget while implementing.

Dashes in Domain Names 

I guess I have written so many things about domain names in past, but in fact I realized the fact that I missed mentioning that we should always avoid using dashes in domain names.

Honestly using dashes in domain names is not at all restricted by any search engines, or any domain name registrar as well, but practically speaking using a domain name is not a good looking or professional idea.

When you yourself type a domain name, I am sure you must have realized that you too ignore typing dashes in domain names. It is a normal human tendency and hence it is advisable that avoid dashes in domain names.

Dashes Vs. Underscores 

It is a very contradictory topic in which some people prefer using dashes or hyphens instead of underscores in file names, subfolder names, etc. and some prefer the underscores over hyphens.

Honestly till a few days back I was also doing this mistake of using underscores over hyphens in the names of the images which I was creating for my websites.

Though it was not like that I was not aware about it, but then don’t know how it slipped from my mind and I started using underscores in images file names. Although at the same time my subconscious mind was so active that I was not using them for subfolders or any other file names.

Ideally it is being said that hyphens or dashes are treated as word separators while underscores are considered as word combiners.

Just for an example if you give an image name as my_name_is_alok_vats.jpg then search engines will consider it as mynameisalokvats, while if you give the name as my-name-is-alok-vats.jpg then they will read it as my name is alok vats.

Similarly, you should also avoid using underscores for any file names, folders, or anything on a website. Prefer hyphens if you want to separate two words.

Don’t Use Upper Case Letters 

While writing the name of any file names, or subfolder names, you should avoid using upper cases letters. It is a bit harmful for your own website.

It is always better to avoid upper case letters, spaces, any special characters, underscores in the names of any file name, or any subfolder of your website. It is not having any direct issue, but then when someone wants to give a link to a particular page of your website, then they might has issue with your domain structure.

The best way to name a file name or subfolder is to use 0 to 9, a to z and only hyphens as word separators.

Changing URL Structure of your Site 

Most of the times bloggers do forget to change the URL structure of their blogs.

In case of blogs some blogging platforms allow you to change the domain structure, for WordPress it is known as changing Permalinks of your blog. This is a crucial thing as many people use the default form of blog URL, i.e. sometimes it might display as http://www.sitename.com/?p=1

Ideally it should be like this http://www.sitename.com/post-title/ or http://www.sitename.com/dd/mm/yyy/post-title/ etc.

Choosing www or non-www Domain 

Ideally when anyone type inewsindia.com the person should be redirected to www.inewsindia.com and vice versa. It is the choice of the website owner that which version of domain name they want to go ahead with.

Many website owners are not at all aware of this issue and their www and non-www both the versions exists, which creates confusion for search engines.

So choose www or a non-www domain name of your website and redirect the other one.

So those were the 5 basic SEO tips which combined with some basic SEO tips which you might be missing will become crucial for the SEO of your website. I am sure you must have enjoyed reading these tips. Please do share your opinion about it in the form of comments over here.