Since SEO is so competitive, there is no guarantee that you’ll be able to get your site on a first page of search results. But as a content creator, you can help bump up your site’s ranking just by optimizing the text and links.

The SEO Basic Principles

• Offer original content with genuine value and relevance to your readers.
• Strategically seed your copy with keywords that describe your content and that correspond with the phrases people are using to perform their searches.
• Embed keywords where they matter most: in the title, headings, links, metadata (part of your page’s source code), and image and video tags.
• Make every page of your site unique: In addition to original content, each page should have its own topic, title, and page-specific keywords (though you can use the highest-volume keywords throughout your site—see “Keyword Research Tools” for assistance in finding the best keywords).
• Deliver on the promise of your keywords: Don’t lure people to your site with words that don’t accurately represent your content.
• Link to other relevant sites, and encourage those sites to link to yours.
• Optimize your site for people first—through clear, concise writing—and for search engines second. Implement SEO without turning your text into nonsense.

For Example:

This Search is my name WBWeeksJr. What I am looking for is to check that the SEO I performed on my site actually moved me to number 1 in the Search Rankings which it does!

Please Note:

All the SEO copy-writing skill in the world won’t help your site if a search engine can’t read it. This is the case with text saved as an image: The image looks like a blank portion of the page to a search engine. Avoid saving text as an image.

How search engines read a webpage

Even though people and search engines scan webpages differently, there are some similarities:

• Page title. Both people and search engines need to know at a glance what a page is about. The page title, sometimes called the <title> tag, is inserted in the code of a webpage. You’ll see it in the top bar of a Web browser, as in the following example.

• Headlines, emphasized words, and lists. Both people and search engines know that anything called out in headlines or subheadings, in boldface or italics, or in bullet-ed lists is likely to be important. Make sure headings, links, and lists in your Web copy are called out with HTML tags.
• Introduction and conclusion. Readers will scan your opening paragraph or your summary for quick information. And search engines, to understand what the subject of a page is, look for keywords throughout that page, including at the top (the introduction) and the bottom (the conclusion). But don’t just shove keywords into the top or the bottom of your page—distribute them evenly throughout.
• Related links. Humans appreciate options for more information. Search engines, too, like to see that you’ve linked to other websites and that other websites have linked to yours.

What Search Engines and People Like

• Verbosity. In the search engine world, verbosity means substantial, relevant, original content. Do fill your page with words, but write succinctly: Make sure that every word you write is relevant to your audience and to the topic you’re addressing.
• Good writing. To a search engine, good writing means using variations of your keywords, including those with different endings. For example, if you are targeting the phrase job interview, use the singular, plural, -ing, and -ed forms, such as job interviews and job interviewing.

What Search Engines and People Dislike

• Poor writing. Search engines are more likely to penalize your website when you stuff your copy with unrelated keywords, strand a list of keywords at the bottom of your page, and rely too much on headlines and links. Your entire page should be relevant: Like a muffin with the right amount of blueberries, it should have juicy keywords distributed evenly throughout, but not so many that they overwhelm the whole.
• Broken links. Search engines want to provide a great experience for their customers by directing them to a useful and informative website that works properly. Broken links tell people and search engines that a site is poorly maintained and will give people a bad experience.