10 Quality Indicators to aim for as a serious Search Engine Optimizer
1. A physical address listed on the website:
If you are living in your parent’s place, at least hide that fact by paying the small monthly fee for a Suite/Po Box address.
2. A toll-free number:
Get a toll-free number & point it to voice mail (unless you plan to staff a person to answer the phone).
3. Lean Code:
The less code the better. The goal is to have more actual content than HTML or JavaScript. Get start by cleaning up your website’s design template. Do not copy and paste from Microsoft Word into your blogging platforms Visual Editor lest you trash your article with miles and miles of junk code.
4. Content on top:
Always make sure that your content shows up in the top 1/3 of the HTML source code.
5. Proper Tag Usage:
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6. Outgoing Link Quality:
It’s a defensive measure that protects your site from getting flagged for link spam. As a general rule for a new site, link out sparingly & when you do link out, link out to established, trusted, sites.
7. Incoming Link Quality:
Aim to get 20 high quality links from 20 different quality websites. One such place to start with is the dir.yahoo.com & business.com. You should aim to build content that other sites will enjoy linking to. This sets the stage for everything that follows.
8. Incoming Link Breadth:
The more sites you get links from the better.
9. Incoming Link Depth:
By now your site will be trustworthy enough to go after some Run of Site links (blogrolls, etc,).
10. Internal Linking:
You should nofollow pages that you don’t really need to rank. You should find all relevant places on your site to link to other pages on your site that you do want to rank. You should shape your linking so that your site doesn’t have much if any duplicate content.
Thanks for this input on search engine optimization. For sure, a lot of interested internet marketers and site owners will see this as important and necessary.