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And \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vtldesign.com\/inbound-marketing\/seo\/seo-for-business-is-no-longer-an-option\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E75 percent\u003C\/a\u003E of them never look further than the first page. If your website is not on the first or second page of results (preferably page one), most likely your prospect clients will not find you. In that case, your website needs to be optimized immediately.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nWhat is SEO?\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nSEO stands for the process of “search engine optimization”. The purpose of SEO is to help search engines find, index, and rank your site.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nSome good practices for SEO\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESummarized pages’ content and fill with some keywords on meta description\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUnique and descriptive title to tell your users and search engines what your page is about\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEvery page should be reachable from at least one text link\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ECreate a useful information content on your pages\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EInclude words that users would type to find your page\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEvery image should have descriptive “alt” tag \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAvoid embedding important text inside your images \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGood user experience: Make it easy for users to navigate around.  Users find content easy for what they are looking for otherwise your bounce rate will increase \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nWhat should you do after get website optimized? \u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou may see the result rank higher after your optimized your site, but it won’t last long. You should add new content to your site often because search engines reward websites that continuously post new and engaging content. \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSEO is complex, but most people can easily understand the basics. If you’d like to learn more or get helped, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nwds-ak.com\/Services\/SearchEngineOptimization.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Econtact us\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E for more information.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nNWDS\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nwds-ak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAlaska Web Design\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #666666;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\"\u003EAbout NWDS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\n founded in 2003 by six software engineers, NorthWest Data Solutions \n(NWDS) provides custom computer programming and systems design services.\n NWDS creates many types of software, including e-commerce, financial, \ndefense, engineering, logistics, aviation and more. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nwds-ak.com\/\"\u003Ewww.nwds-ak.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.alaska-website.com\/feeds\/352076148449764292\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.alaska-website.com\/2015\/02\/why-does-your-website-need-seo.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7622222488475342763\/posts\/default\/352076148449764292"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7622222488475342763\/posts\/default\/352076148449764292"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.alaska-website.com\/2015\/02\/why-does-your-website-need-seo.html","title":"Why does your website need SEO?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chanok"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03212828073476536400"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YdNYsOxnrOs\/VAZal9X82lI\/AAAAAAAABAU\/Ad4nf0fmeZs\/s72-c\/SEO.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7622222488475342763.post-1741367520985486313"},"published":{"$t":"2014-01-31T13:12:00.000-09:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-02-10T14:08:32.198-09:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"alaska web design"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"anchorage alaska website design"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"effective SEO meta tags"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Good Website Designers Effectively Use Meta Tags"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch3\u003E\nEffectively Use meta tags\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-62ZL0RSMhDM\/Uuwe54s-a_I\/AAAAAAAAApM\/QaPI5IYDHQc\/s1600\/iStock_000005249766Small.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-62ZL0RSMhDM\/Uuwe54s-a_I\/AAAAAAAAApM\/QaPI5IYDHQc\/s1600\/iStock_000005249766Small.jpg\" height=\"390\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSEO ordinarily refers to making imperceptible adjustments to parts of your web site either by your \u003Cb\u003Eweb designers\u003C\/b\u003E or by the person responsible for content management. If inspected by themselves, these adjustments probably appear like incremental adjustments. In any case, if merged with other website modifications or \"optimizations\", they could generate a noticeable influence on your visitors' experience and also the evaluation in organic search results.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPossibly the topics outlined here are already familiar to your company's \u003Cb\u003Eweb designers and developers\u003C\/b\u003E. Because they consist of essential factors for any business web page, but in any case, your developers may not be taking full advantage of their potential. Beyond a doubt, every \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nwds-ak.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAnchorage, Alaska website design company\u003C\/a\u003E is aware of these basic elements, but they don't always practice them. Make sure your web designers are doing their job properly with this little bit of knowledge.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nCreate Unique, Depictive Web Page Titles\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nTitle tags notify both your company web sites' potential customers and search engines what is the subject matter of a particular page. \"Title\" tags are in most cases to be placed inside of the \"head\" tag of HTML documents. Your organization's software engineers should write a unique title for each web page.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nBest Practices for Web Page Title Tags\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSpecifically specify the content by grabbing a title that properly communicates the topic of the web page's subject matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAvoid:\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESelecting titles with no relation to web page's textual content\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAdopting default titles like \"Untitled\" or \"New Page\"\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nDo:\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGenerate individual title tags for every page by supplying each of your business's pages a unique title tag, which helps search engines know how the page is distinct from other web pages on your site, such as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nwds-ak.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAlaska Web page design\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nDo not:\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUsing a single title tag across all of your web pages \u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWrite short but descriptive titles by ensuring your website's titles are both concise and illuminating. If titles are too wordy, major search engines merely place a small part in the search engine results\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ELeaving exceptionally lengthy titles that are of no use to your company's visiting clients\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EStuffing worthless valuable keywords into your web pages' title tags\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nTaking Advantage of the \"description\" Meta Tag\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003E\nWeb pages' description meta tag provides major search engines a summary of what the web page is about. In as much as web pages' title may be merely a few words or a short phrase. Web pages' description meta tag may be a sentence or two or a short paragraph. Similar to \"title\" tags, description meta tags are set within the \"head\" tag of HTML documents.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDescription meta tag is essential because Google, Yahoo and Bing might place them as snippets for your business's web pages. Snippets materialize under pages' title and above pages' URL in major search engine results.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWords and phrases within snippets are bolded whenever they show up in users' queries. This offers your website' potential customers clues whether the web page's copy is relevant to what he is hunting.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nBest Practices for Description Meta Tags\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMeticulously summarize web pages' textual content by choosing descriptions that both brief and interest users. If they glimpse your organization's description meta tag as a snippet in major search engines results.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDo:\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWrite unique depictions for every web page by creating different description meta tags for each web page. This helps major search engines and your web sites' visitors, particularly in queries where users retrieve many pages on your domain. If your enterprise's web site has 800 or 5000 pages, hand-crafting description meta tags isn't a logical choice. In this case, your company could automatically write description meta tags based on each page's web content.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nDo not:\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWriting description meta tags that don't relate to web page\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUsing generic explanations like \"This is a webpage\" or \"Page about \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/asms-pro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaviation risk management system\u003C\/a\u003E\"\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EFilling descriptions with only keywords\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ECopy\/pasting entire contents of documents into description meta tags\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EUsing single description meta tags across all your web pages or a large set of pages.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\nIn conclusion, these meta tags are understood by many people, but yet most fail to use them correctly.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/alaska-websitedesign.com\/WebDesignBlog\/tabid\/193\/EntryId\/37\/Good-Website-Designers-Effectivey-Use-Meta-Tags.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOriginal article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\nNWDS\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nwds-ak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAlaska Web Design\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"color: #666666;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\"\u003EAbout NWDS\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\n founded in 2003 by six software engineers, NorthWest Data Solutions \n(NWDS) provides custom computer programming and systems design services.\n NWDS creates many types of software, including e-commerce, financial, \ndefense, engineering, logistics, aviation and more. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nwds-ak.com\/\"\u003Ewww.nwds-ak.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.alaska-website.com\/feeds\/1741367520985486313\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.alaska-website.com\/2014\/01\/good-website-designers-effectivey-use.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7622222488475342763\/posts\/default\/1741367520985486313"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7622222488475342763\/posts\/default\/1741367520985486313"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/www.alaska-website.com\/2014\/01\/good-website-designers-effectivey-use.html","title":"Good Website Designers Effectively Use Meta Tags"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Chanok"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03212828073476536400"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-62ZL0RSMhDM\/Uuwe54s-a_I\/AAAAAAAAApM\/QaPI5IYDHQc\/s72-c\/iStock_000005249766Small.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});