Keywords
There are two main reasons to use keywords
- To make your site searchable by search engines.
- To help you write your site's content.
Submit Express has a free meta tag and keyword analysis tool is worth taking a look at.
Steps in incorporating keywords into your site.
- Make a list of words that are important to the content of your site. Start the list in the phase one.
- Use the keywords in your
- Domain name
- File and folder names
- Meta tags
- Title (Up to 100 characters)
- Keywords (Can use phrases, separate with commas)
- Description (Don't use returns)
- Author (optional) <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="kowen@sdccd.edu">
- Instructions to search engine spiders or robots (optional) <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
- Content of your site
- h1 tag
- Copy on your webpage, especially the opening paragraphs
- h2-h6 tags
- Alt tags
- Image names
Last update: August 27, 2010