Also today, I’ll quickly introduce you to an awesome SEO tool I use frequently (frequently’s probably too often, yeah?). It’s called Website Grader. All you do is type your website’s address and hit you enter key. Then after a few seconds, you will be given an SEO score and a list of suggested ways to improve and promote your website.
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Categories: Boost Your Rank, Check Your Rank, SEO Tools Tags: backlinks, inbound links, keywords, meta tags, redirection, search engine optimisation, search engine optimization, seo, seo score, SEO Tools, website grader
What are backlinks?
Basically, backlinks are just incoming links. That is, links that come from other websites to your website.
Why are they important?
Google and other search engines use the number of backlinks asĀ one of the more important factors for determining your website’s search engine rank. What’s even more important than the number is the quality of the sites linking to you.
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Most of the time, when you visit a website, the homepage is the first page you see. So your homepage needs to make a good first impression. You need to captivate your audience within a matter of seconds. But don’t overlook impressing those search engine bots too!
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Categories: Boost Your Rank, Check Your Rank, SEO Tools Tags: google bot, home page, homepage, meta tags, robots.txt, search engine optimisation, seo, seo score, SEO Tools, text browser, title tag
One thing that a lot of people probably don’t realise is, that search engines don’t see a website the same as you or I. They don’t see any images, they don’t see colour, so they don’t judge your website on how good it looks. They see a text version of you site with all the prettiness stripped out of it. So you need to consider this when designing your website. No one’s going to be able to find your pretty website if search engine bots can’t read it.
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Categories: Boost Your Rank, Check Your Rank, SEO Tools Tags: alt tags, domain tools, keywords, meta tags, search engine optimisation, search engines, seo, seo score, text browser, whois
Now you’ve got the domain name. I’m going to assume you’ve worked out that you have to buy web hosting and that you have to link you domain with it. If you need me to write an article on that too, let me know and I’ll see what I can do
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Otherwise, let’s get on with it. I’ll briefly explain SEO and what to do about it.
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