37 SEO tips and hints for 2012 released!

SEO tips changes and also gets updated day by day. Here is a list of SEO tips that can work for 2012.

(1) Create a mobile site and build it search engine friendly OR make your existing site mobile friendly..

(2) Include G+ in all your webpages.

(3) Have complete profile information on Google plus / Google profiles and link it from your webpage.

(4) Get G+ for your webpage from reputed persons.

(5) Get natural links from readers by writing quality content.

(6) Add Facebook like and share buttons to your webpage and promote through social networks.

(7) Include rich snippet to your web pages and indicate through rich snippet form for validation.

(8) Write quality content for users and not for search engines.

(9) Do not get links from paid directories without "nofollow" links. Go for paid directories only for traffic and not for ranking.

(10) Include your business information in Google places. This is the best place for getting local search traffic.

(11) Have monthly press release with right content and links.

(12) Participate in related forums. Engage posters and get engaged too.

(13) Do blogging and start valuable commenting on follow link blogs.

(14) Write keyword rich text in alt attributes. Especially on the images that are on top of the web pages.

(15) Get users reviews if you have a selling page and make sure that rich snippet works.

(16) Work on the low positioned search keywords that you see in analytics.

(17) Analyse webmasters tools and work on the pages that generate impressions and not clicks.

(18) Include all open WebPages in XML sitemap and inform Google & Bing through webmaster tools.

(19) Optimize your page title with search keywords only when you have unique content.

(20) Optimize your WebPages with right unique Meta description that speaks short about the webpage content.

(21) Add H tags (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6) towards the page heading and sub headings without keyword stuffing.

(22) Have text links in header and footer of the WebPages.

(23) Add a sitemap to a website.

(24) Add breadcrumbs to the WebPages.

(25) Have one homepage for a site. Redirect http://yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com and http://www.yourdomain.com/default.html to http://www.yourdomain.com.

(26) Make sure you balance keyword frequency, keyword prominence and keyword density.

(27) Make SEO friendly URLs with keyword rich page names.

(28) Use hyphens (-) instead for underscore (_) for web page name.

(29) Have CSS (Style sheets) in external file.

(30) Have JavaScript’s in external file.

(31) Make sure that the site loads fast.

(32) Have the home page size (KB) to the minimum.

(33) Use < p > tags for page contents.

(34) Use < b > tags for important texts in contents.

(35) Do link building with trusted directories.

(36) Get links from reputed person’s social media profiles.

(37) Always be a leaner of SEO.

Keep following this page. I will be adding more SEO tips for 2012 as I derive from practical experiences and industry updates.

Why natural backlinks are more important than artificial backlinks?

To be simple website's Search engine ranking works based on quality content and backlinks. The ultimate point we need to think about is to write fresh and informative content for users and not to write rephrasing content for Google and other major search engines. Your readers will love to give a link to your web page content only when it is found unique. This natural backlink has more weight age than your artificial backlinks such as directories submission, web page posting and so.

Content that attracts readers are given more importance by Google and other search engines. Readers who link to your webpage would be high and with right anchor text your web page will be boosted link anything.

Artificial backlinks needs more time and effort and to find the right sites for submission is not so easy. As per Google guidelines, paid links submission without “nofollow” attribute will be a big cause for penalty. Even if you pay for links with “nofollow” attribute, the link juice flow doesn't work like before. Instead if you put more efforts for writing quality content then over night you will have a high chance of getting more natural backlinks from your readers.

Writing quality content is a onetime effort. It automatically works for you round the clock but link submission is a repeated process. It is not that you need not get links from quality human edited directory; it is as simple as that you need to give more importance to write quality content to get natural backlinks and it grows as it reaches mass audience. Through researches it is found that natural backlinks brings more relevant users and conversion level is high.

10 Tools to find copy image and content - Ways to fix copy content issue

Now copying web page content has become more common and there has been hard time for Google and other major search engine to find the original content. On many circumstances copy content lists top and original content lists at bottom. To find the copied sites, you can do an advance search on your original text using the double quotes operator ("your text") in Google search box or you can use the below tools,

(1) Find duplicate content and check if your content is original www.copyscape.com
(2) Find your copyright image that are used in other sites http://www.tineye.com/
(3) Plagiarism checking system www.plagiarismdetect.com
(4) Check articles with text and URL http://www.articlechecker.com/
(5) Duplicate content checker with 2 URL's http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php
(6) Find duplicate content with copy & paste original text http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
(7) Track copy content by pasting or typing your original text http://www.plagium.com/
(8) Upload original content and find copy content http://www.duplichecker.com/
(9) Scan for copy content http://www.scanmyessay.com/
(10) File and web copy content checker www.doccop.com

To solve the copy content issue, you need to contact Google's DMCA agent, for that you can use the form and to mail or fax you can use Mail/Fax Process.

12 SEO Starters Questions Answered

Here are the lists of common questions I see in my Google Analytics. Below is the straight answer to the questions that would help the SEO starters.

(1) How to get pages indexed on Google, Yahoo & Bing?

Add your site to the below URL's

Google - www.google.com/addurl

Yahoo - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

Bing - https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

In addition configure your site to Google & Bing Webmaster tools

Google Webmaster tools - www.google.com/webmasters

Bing webmaster tools - www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/

(2) How to list your website with Google in one day?

Add your site to Google (www.google.com/addurl) and also configure your site to Google Webmaster tools (www.google.com/webmasters). Use www.yourdomain.com to check whether your site is included in Google.

And if you are expecting to list you site for the site keywords then it would take time. Google lists the site based on the website popularity and website structure. This is a long term process.

(3) How to make sure your content is SEO ready?

You can check the keyword density of the content WRT to your service or products. Compare your content with your competitors. Write content for your visitors and not for search engines.

(4) How to submit website to Google, Yahoo & Bing search engines?

Go to the following URL's to submit your website

Google - www.google.com/addurl

Yahoo - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

Bing - https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

(5) How to use Meta tags to improve Google ratings?

Use unique Meta tag content for pages and the Meta tags should be explaining all about the page. Meta description is more important and Meta keyword is least important.

(6) Is there any difference on how Google ranks h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 & h6?

H1 to H6 tags are used to show the importance of the page body headings. H1 is large in font size and H6 is small in font size.

(7) What are the basics of SEO html?

Unique title for pages, Meta tags, H tags, < p > tag and Alt attributes.

(8) What is difference between Google analytic and webmaster tool?

Google Analytics shows your site's visitor’s information and Google webmaster tools show your site performance information.

(9) What search words will work?

Based on your site theme, you can find using the below free tools

Google keyword tools - https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Google Insight - www.google.com/insights/search/

Google trends - http://www.google.com/trends

Yahoo search clues - http://clues.yahoo.com

(10) Does use of title attribute in links improve search rankings?

Title attribute will help Google spiders to know more about the link relevancy towards the pointing content page.

(11) Does Google look at the first 3 words for search titles?

Google spider’s looks the pages title to know what the content is all about. Importance is given to the titles based on the page relevancy. Top content are give more importance includes Title words, Meta description and body content.

(12) Can Google see dropdown as keyword stuffing?

If the dropdown text helps users to understand better then it will not fall under keyword stuffing.