SEO in 10 minutes for Startups

This SEO Step by Step guide is intended for the startups who generally have contents below 50 pages. They are focusing to gain higher in Google search engine. Mainly startups who doesn't want to invest too much on SEO or hire a SEO expert for their websites. Before we should get started we should learn, how search engine works? This article provide a great reference to learn the working of search engines.

We will provide you basic and the most effective ways to rank higher in Google search engine results. We will also focus on  those things which the most people do wrong in SEO.

Also Check: WordPress SEO Guide – The Ultimate Tutorial

The first thing you should decide about your domain is whether you want to select 'www' or 'non-www' for your website. Many big companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook uses the www for their domain. But it totally depends on a user what they want to chose for. 

The next step in SEO is to verify your ownership with Google Webmaster Tools. Always use a valid email to sign up, to enable message forwarding. So whenever you receive a messages from Google (Crawling issues, Malware issues, Not-found issues, etc), they will directly received by you in your Gmail inbox.

One more SEO tip is to perform a background check on your domain. For example make sure whatever domain you chooses was ever used before by any spammy website. As it will result in poor ranking in Google search engine.

Another great feature provided by the Google Webmaster Tools is Googlebot feature. This feature is an excellent feature, this way you can submit any new URL or page directly to Google and also submits the URL in that particular page. The URL will be available for searchers even faster.

Next SEO tip is to include analytical code, it could be Google Analytics Code or any third party Analytics provider. You can always use this data for more SEO research about your website or can even forward data to any SEO researcher.

The next tip include your website design strategy. The questions you should ask yourself before deploying any strategy.Things you should check whether a user can navigate the site easily or search for the content/item that they are looking in site.

You should also check whether your pages are logical and specific to its content keyword. You should also natural  query words  in your post, that a user would include while searching on search engine. You can also refer to Google Adword tools for more keyword research for your website.

Every page should include a specific topic, a unique title (which will be visible in search engines), unique meta description snippet and descriptive anchor text for every link.

Dont's of SEO

• Never hire a shady or rogue SEO (if they guarantee anything)
• Never buy links to increase your page ranks.

Do Google uses Meta Keywords ?

Well, many of us target keywords in our posts to get good ranking in Google search engine. But most of us who are new to blogging don't know about whether Google uses keywords or not.

The answer is "NO", so lets talk about this keyword concept more in details. Other search engines might use Meta Keywords in while ranking any page on their search engine.

Google who had updated their search algorithm, had ignored meta keywords. In recent past couple of years people abused meta keywords in terms for to gain high rankings in search engine. Well thats the basic reason why Google had decided to avoid meta keywords while ranking.

Also Check: Keyword Research - The Ultimate Guide.

 But there are things like Meta Description  which could be very handy while ranking in search engine. And oftentimes if  you have mentioned a good meta description for your post. Google will use that snippet while showing your results in search engine.

So its upto individual, whether they only want to target Google search engine or they can also use meta keywords in case they want to target other search engine as well.