SEO process blogs for beginners / newbies

I am now convinced that the long tail keyword search really works, when a user wants specific information. If he / she wants to find the information, he / she will refine the keyphrase search term to get a satisfactory search engine result.

Yesterday, I was just trying to figure out what keywords and keyphrases a site that I’m SEO ‘ing ranks well for. I typed “sexy college girls in miami” in the Google search engine and the site came up at number 64. Not so bad, considering my major on page search engine optimization / seo efforts were really started just a few weeks ago for that website. But what I found is that that Google took the text from an image alt tag not right at the top of the page - ‘access to college girls on DVDs’. The only words that matched my searched keyphrase were ‘college’ and ‘girls’. ‘Miami’ was in another alt text four images after. The description in the search results for my search all came from the alt text in consecutive images.

I mean, for the professional SEO people this might be nothing. For a beginner like me, it is a discovery. Seeing for myself how the long tail keyword really does work reinforced what they say - you have to try things out to see the result for yourself.

Technorati Tags: SEO long tail keyword search, Google results, image alt tags

I started keyword research for one of the porn sites that I’m working on using the Keyword Discovery tool. It’s been helpful so far, but there is room to improve my keyword research skills though.

I was reading about SEO for PHP sites since most of the sites we work with are dynamic websites. Just can’t get away from those. But dynamic websites are a musss-have nowadays, since data needs to be supplied immediately, and this way it’s easier to update information. Dynamic websites can cause problems too, like duplicate content issues. For instance, a page can sometimes be accessed using entirely different URLs. The dynamic URLs should be rewritten into search engine friendly static URLs. You’ll notice my blog entry URLs are keyword-rich rewritten. This feature comes with Wordpress. The URL is created with the title of the blog

Also on my list- SEO for images. Imagine a website that’s made up 90% of sliced images. This gives little room for text content. Ways to optimize images for search engine spiders include:

• adding image alt attributes
• making sure the meta descriptions, page titles, and internal and external anchor text are optimized
• focus on uncompetitive keyword phrases
• focus on long tail keyword phrases
• naming images with keywords (where it makes sense, and not overdoing it-of course)
• adding image title attributes (I read somewhere that this has become less important, thought)

As always said, keywords should be placed where they make sense. And image alt attributes should be descriptive of the images. More and more I’m getting the hang of this SEO thing. I’ve read the same things over and over and over. So now it’s time to do! Soon I’ll no longer be just a beginner.

Technorati Tags: Keyword Research, SEO, PHP, image optimization, duplicate content, dynamic URLs