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Search engine optimization or SEO is the process of making a web site visible and friendly among search engines. It is most likely the most vital aspect of designing your web site. Several commercial web sites are designed and created by individuals who know little about SEO. The long page generally has the information and several other links that people need to know about to optimize a web site for search engines. You have to know more about the “search engines only index text”.

On Indexing

When designing and optimizing the web site, you have to keep in mind that they generally do not index images, Flash is not indexed excellently too. Even though there are several exceptions to the approach, search engines only index text, even though search engines have been improved and are more intelligent. They are also now more capable of indexing files like graphic file captions and PDFs, as well as some of the text in a given Flash file.

You can do several things when designing or redesigning a web site to get more treatment in the search engines. You can choose to optimize the home page for the most relevant and important keyword or key phrase, as well as other pages that can be optimized for the given product. If you choose to sell various products on various pages, every page can be optimized for the given product. You can organize items this way. You should use SEO on at least several pages to get the results you want. Do not optimize pages wherein you do not have public content. Avoid pages that have “private policy” and “contact us” as well.

Choose the Right Domain Name

The domain name may not be entirely substantial in changing your search results ranking, but it does help you become more visible to other web sites and target users. Try to use the same words or terms that best defines your topic. Try to view other existing sites and find out which domain names they use. I use Godaddy for all my domain purchases. Godaddy is very reliable and has an excellent 24/7 support.

Here is a Tip:

Do a keyword research with Google Adwords External Keywords Tool on the keyword you want for your domain name. Then select about 500 keywords and go to Godaddy. Now Select Domain, then Bulk Domain Name Registrations. Now paste the 500 keywords and press on the SEARCH button. Godaddy will do a search and produce of all the domain names available with that keyword. Now copy these domain names as .txt file and analyse them again before you buy your domain.

This method skips the manual process of searching one by one your domain names.

The Web Hosting Company

You should also invest in a good web hosting company. Free web site hosting can provide you with some visibility, but you should not expect to be at the top of the list. You should have your own static IP address, which means that the numeric IP address should be very stable. It should not differ each time someone types your URL, which is also referred to as a dynamic IP address. Huge hosting companies usually use dynamically assigned IP addresses that function the same way. Search engines prefer static IP addresses for several technical reasons.

Having a reliable hosting is very important. There are many reliable hosting out there, but I suppose you are looking for a long term business and it is important to be a part of a good one. For about  1 year I have been with Hostgator but a few months back I moved over to GVOHosting. The reason for such a change was because I wanted more marketing tools all in one place and also to minimise the cost of all other services I had externally.

GVOhosting provides you with reseller unlimited hosting, autresponder services, video hosting, video producing, video conferencing. This has helped me cut my costs dramatically. Moreover, their 24/7 service is excellent and it is a 12 year old company recently revamped and relaunched. They helped me migrate my 15 websites from Hostgator at one go and without losing any downturn on my websites. I would higly recommend GVOhosting to anyone looking for reliable hosting service and cost reduction. You can try out their $1 trial.

Final Tips

Aside from using the main keywords that your target market will most likely use, you should also incorporate secondary keywords to optimize your web site more. Keyword stemming is another useful approach, wherein you use words that have the same stem or come from the same root. The use of synonyms can be good for your web site too. You should try to optimize for synonyms of the target keywords, together with the main keywords.

Links are highly important if you want to rank high. Try to use as many backlinks as you can. Look for links from other related and similar sites. Look for the origin of inbound links as well.