Don’t Force SEO, Let It Happen Naturally
By: John Vinson
Like many great things in the world, some like to take advantage and blow things out of proportion. The greatest example in the web design, and online world can be found with SEO. You’ll generally find most of the mistakes I’m about to list with those just starting out with SEO.
If you happen to be a beginner, then take heed of these tips…hopefully you won’t begin a pattern that will end up hurting your website more than helping it.
– Don’t over saturate your writing with keywords. I know that you want people to visit your site when they Google ‘North Carolina real estate’. That doesn’t mean that you need to keep typing that into your content. If your site is blog related, you have to really mind this rule. An important rule to remember is that Google requires a maximum of 2% for keywords in your content, with Yahoo liking around 5%
– Just as important as pleasing the search engines, is pleasing your users. So, you might only have to have 2% keyword density but you have to make sure that 2% is naturally being used. Because you can gain all the page views in the world, but your money will be made by conversion. People only want to view your content, and click through your site if it’s readable and interesting.
