An article by Suresh Babu

1. Have a good keyword rich Title. The first thing search engine looks for is the page Title. Have unique title with keyword for each page
2. Describe your website with a keyword rich description. This helps both the search engines and humans to know what your site is about
3. Use the targeted keyword within the body text
4. The use of the keyword in your site should be relevant and related to your site
5. Use keyword within the H1 tag or header tag
6. You get an additional point by having the keyword in your domain name
7. Use keywords in the page URL
8. Bold or Italic the keyword in the body text
9. Use keyword within in the alt tag for images. Search engines cant read images or flash, including the keyword within the alt tags will help search engines know what that is image is about
10. Include keywords in the anchor links. An example will be instead of having click here to read more, change it to Click here to read more about (Insert keyword)
11. Link popularity within the site plays a major role
12. Give links to external sites , blogs and forums
13. Get high quality links for other trusted sites.
14. Write quality content. Give useful, unique resources to the visitors
15. Update your site, blog often. Search engines loves fresh content
16. Make sure your server is accessible to bots or robots to index your site
17. Write articles and posts which will be helpful for visitors
18. Submit your blog, site to social networking sites
19. Make it easy for visitors to bookmark your site
20. Submit your site to related directories

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