Geo Targeted SEO

Sep 10, 2010 by Florence Adams

Wag the Dog Marketing on basic steps of on site organic search engine optimization.

Keyword Research: Supply and demand analysis must be done in order to determine what phrases you decide to search engine optimize on-page relating to your products and services. Don’t get hung up on the broadest, hardest to rank for keyword phrases.

You are far more likely to have success when you don’t make great efforts to search optimize phrases that your competitors are endlessly targeting. You want to focus on phrases that do relate to what you offer, however are not so competitive. You’d rather have 1% of 1000, then 0% of 5,000,000.

Good Keyword Content: Write good content about the phrases you’ve selected. Be sure to write only one article per phrase. Make sure to sprinkle your chosen keyword into the headline tags, and throughout your article using it more in the beginning and ending of the article. Think of an hour glass.

Use related keywords throughout the middle of your article to gain a wider range of first page search rankings for more phrases.

Effective Meta Tags: Humans are the main reason for creating good meta tags. The description is the only portion of our site that people will see on the first page of Google, Bing and Yahoo!. Therefore it must be well written or it will be passed over by your would be customer.

You want to capitalize the first letters of your important words here and make sure the description is written clearly and is short and punchy, making the viewer want to read more.

Internal Linking: Link your home page to your most important content pages, and then those pages to the less important pages. Make sure all pages use their main keyword as anchor text in a link pointing elsewhere. Be sure to link all pages back to your home page.

Although these are basic search engine optimization tips, they are all absolutely necessary for local SEO optimization. Get the basics done first then the rest of your first page search ranking work will be easier.

For more than just basic local SEO optimization tips bark at MKevin Turneau, of Wag the Dog Marketing, tday to get help with your local SEO optimization.