Ahoy there! We’re going to start a very basic SEO Guide aimed at newbie bloggers and webmasters.

SEO

According to Wikipedia: Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results

It’s all about traffic

Keep in mind that traffic is the holy grail to almost everything done online. Optimizing you blog/site for search engines will help them index your content better and hence help to achieve better rankings for your site.

Stay tuned. In this guide, we’ll be focusing on :

• Optimizing Page Titles
• Optimizing META Descriptions
• Placing alt and title tags for images and anchors
• Keywords : Density and emphasis
• Proper use of the HTML Heading tags
• Linking: Using Nofollow links and importance of internal linking
• Creating SE friendly URLs
• Redirecting www prefixed URL to non-www (or vice versa)
• 301 redirect  for permalink URL change and non-extant pages
• Understanding robots.txt
• Creating an XML Sitemap
• Duplicate content: Analysis and removal

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