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"How
Changing One Single Onpage Optimization Factor Can Boost
Your Rankings By Over 350 Positions!"
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Ok, so now we've selected our main 3
keywords:
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- weight loss
story
- weight loss
picture
- safe weight
loss
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Notice that all of the keywords contain the
word "weight loss". This will make things easier for us when
we begin to optimize our offpage ranking factors which you'll
learn about later.
Let's
Optimize Our Webpage ...
The first thing we need
to do is select a page Title for our website.
Add a
Title
The page title
should:
Include ONLY our main
keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the
title, the more weight Google will give to each of the
keywords and the higher you will rank.
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Note: When I say "Google", I'm
really referring to all the major engines (Google,
Yahoo, and MSN). But I am saying Google because
this is the search engine you should really focus
on optimizing for because Google gets roughly 50%
of all the searches on the web. Yahoo receives
about 30% and MSN about
20%. | |
When creating your page
title, it should not look like this:
- Welcome
to our website!
- This is
the html code used to create this title:
<title>Welcome to our website!</title>
It should not even
look like this, which does contain our main keywords, but
contains an unnecessary number of words:
- weight loss story and weight
loss picture and safe weight loss
- This is
the html code used to create this title:
<title>weight loss
story and weight loss picture and safe weight
loss</title>
Although that title
isn't horrible and does contain all of your main keywords, you
should do a couple of things to cut down on words used.
This would be a perfect
title for your webpage:
- Weight Loss Story | Safe Weight
Loss Picture
- This is
the html code used to create this title:
<title>Weight Loss
Story | Safe Weight Loss Picture</title>
Notice that
I've:
- Taken out all of the
"ands"
- Replaced one of the "ands" with
a "|" character (Note: You can add this character by
holding the shift key on your keyboard and pressing the
backslash key above the enter key.)
- Combined the keywords "Safe
Weight Loss" with "Weight Loss Picture"
Always Combine Your Keywords In The Page Title!
When Google looks at our
title, it will see all 3 of our keywords only. Combining
keywords to cut down on the total number of keywords
displayed in the title is a great way to boost the
strength of each individual keyword, which will have an
immediate impact on your ranking.
Add <h1>
header tags
Next we'll need to add 1
<h1> header tag and place our most important keyword
there.
The <h1> header
tag should be as far towards the top of the page as possible.
When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top
left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of
the page.
So, it's best to place
your <h1> header tag on the top left hand or top/middle
portion of your page. You can think of an <h1> header
tag as a title for whatever content you have on your
page.
For example, the
<h1> header tag of this lesson would be:
"How changing
1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings
by
over 350 positions!"
... and the html code
would look like this:
<h1>"How changing 1 onpage
optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 350
positions!"</h1>
Of course, I would have
changed my lesson title to contain my main keyword if I was
actually trying to optimize this page for Google. Also, if
possible, it's ideal if you can include ONLY your main keyword
within the h1 header tags. <h1>Weight Loss
Story</h1> would be perfect.
Add <h2>
header tags
Next, we'll need to
create an <h2> header tag. This can be thought of as a
sub heading for our webpage. You should place your 2nd most
important keyword in the <h2> header tag. The <h2>
tag should be placed somewhere towards the top half of your
webpage.
A good <h2> header
tag for our example would be:
- <h2>safe weight
loss<h2> (Usually it's best to place your primary
keyword in your <h1> tags and your secondary keyword
into the <h2> tags.
After we've done this,
we need to actually create the content for our webpage. When
writing the content, try to evenly sprinkle your main keywords
throughout the copy. Don't overdo it though.
Try to mention each
keyword in a natural way as you are writing, but be sure
to include at least one of the keywords per 1-2 paragraphs,
depending on how large your page is.
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Tip: Make sure
to mention your main keyword at the very top left
and the very bottom right hand side of the
webpage. A trick I like to use is to include this
in the copyright information line at the bottom of
the website. For our example, this would be a good
example:
© 2005
copyright www.domain.com a weight loss
story
Notice that it flows
and doesn't really look too
strange. | |
Bolding,
italicizing and underlining ...
Once we've finished
writing the copy, we should go through and bold, underline, or
italicize some of the keywords only 1 time each, maximum. Only
do 1 per keyword or it will hurt you more than it helps. This
isn't crucial to do, but it's good to maybe do this to a
couple keywords...
Properly
include <alt> image tags ...
Next, click on the very
top image of your webpage (This is usually your website's
header graphic) and include an <alt> image tag using the
text "weight loss story header" if you're adding this alt text
to your website header graphic. Click on 2 more graphics
throughout your webpage and enter your other 2 keywords, plus
an extra word like "graphic" or "image"... For example, we
would use "weight loss picture graphic" and "safe weight loss
image". This ensures that Google won't view this as
spam.
For example, if we have
an image on our webpage called: picture1.jpg
The code that
would be used to insert the image would look something like
this:
<img src="picture1.jpg" width="250" height="80"
border="0">
Now, if we were to add an alt image tag called "Weight
Loss Story Graphic", we'd simply do this:
<img src="picture1.jpg" width="250" height="80" border="0"
alt="Weight Loss Story Graphic">
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Force Google
To Read Your Keywords First!
Now, remember I stated
above that Google views your webpage from top left, to bottom
right? Well, in general they do. But because most websites
contain a left hand column which contains all of their
navigation links...
Google WILL View all of
the text in the left hand column Before The Body of the
webpage
To show you what I mean, look at
the image below to see the order of information that Google
will view this webpage. because of the way the person has
created the tables containing their content. I've added red
lines so you can visually see the way the site was designed,
has they not made the table borders invisible.

How can you get around
this? I've come up with a neat little trick that will ensure
that Google reads the actual body of your webpage before the
left hand column containing your navigational
links.
Here is what you need
to do:
Rather than creating a table that looks like
this:
You should create a table
that looks like this:
See how I've changed the website above, so that Google
now sees our content BEFORE our navigation menu:

By doing this, Google
will read the top left hand row/column first... BUT will see
that it is empty or only contains a couple words in this case,
so it will then read the body of your webpage and then read
the 2nd left hand row/column which contains your navigational
links! :-)
That's all there is to
it!
In summary, I really
want to point out the fact that, although good onpage
optimization is something you'll really want to do, it is
NOT how you make dramatic changes in your search engine
ranking!
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Important! Let
me repeat that again, onpage optimization... which
is what I've taught you thus far, will make small
changes in your ranking, but WILL NOT help
your site make dramatic jumps in
ranking. | |
This is one of the
biggest misconceptions in the search engine world. Many
believe that by getting your keyword density just right, or by
moving your keywords around on the page in just the right
places, you'll really move up in the search
engines.
That is not the case at
all. It is the offpage optimization factors that will
get you high rankings. I will teach you exactly what offpage
optimization factors are, AND how to make sure you optimize
these factors perfectly for Google!
Stay tuned for
tomorrow's lesson. You're going to love what I have to teach
you... It's titled:
"The Secret To
Getting Listed In Google In Under 24 Hours!"

All the
best,

Brad Callen
Professional SEO
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