16 SEO Tips – My Onpage SEO Checklist

Here’s a list of onpage SEO factors I look at when analyzing a website. Enjoy!

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WordPress SEO to Be a Top SEO Blog #3

The previous post in this series was regarding running my blog through the SEO Workers’ Analyzer Tool and the Website Grader Tool and discovering what points my site fell sort on. I also analyzed my blog’s theme based on  keyword density. In this post just as the top sites in this industry have already done,  I’ll focus on completing (most of ) the on-page WordPress SEO.

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Perform a Quick SEO Analysis Utilizing 2 Free SEO Tools

If you ever find yourself at the point where you just aren’t sure what basic SEO needs to be done for a website, consider using these two free SEO tools that will scan your website for ranking barriers and influencers. Within 10 minutes you can damn-near know everything your website needs to be fully optimized.

SEO Workers – Analyzer Tool

This tool is great for users looking for onpage SEO adjustments that need to be impemented throughtout the whole domain.

It doesn’t only analyze the Meta Tags of your pages, rather it tries to use the same spider technology as the search engines spiders them self.

seo-checker

Here are some of the results you can expect;

  • General status
  • Meta tags listing
  • Meta tags analysis
  • General web page analysis
  • The page displayed within search engine results
  • Keywords found in the anchor tags
  • Keywords found in the image ‘alt’ attribute text
  • Keywords found on the page
  • URLs found in the page
  • Headers returned from the server

Website Grader

This tool is a very popular analyzer tool. And it’s easy to understand why once you use it. It makes it really simple to understand where your website is passing and failing. Red marks for the wrong ones, just like our teachers growing up :)

website-grader-tool

The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

You can see the results for my SEO blog here.

This tool also allows you to add your competitors, so you can see how they are performing as well.

Take notes on all of the points you missed/got wrong or would like to personally improve on. That should give you a nice list of things to do with your website in order to improve its’ rankings. If you passed all those test sand you’re still not #1, then maybe you should consider reading “Deep Down You Know Why Your Website Isn’t Ranking #1“.

Good Luck!

I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my SEO blog. I really do appreciate it. You can read another related post (found below) or subscribe here. Once again, thank you for visiting James’ SEO blog.

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Onpage SEO: Title Tags Change Search Engine Rankings

Recently I decided to blog more about SEO related topics. Mainly because I have a couple keywords I want to start targeting. I noticed one of my blogs (My San Diego SEO Blog) (<— not this SEO Blog) was getting traffic for terms relating to ‘SEO‘ and ‘San Diego‘. I’m pretty sure the love I’m getting from the engines come from my relevant link right here in my blog side bar because I never really had any San Diego content.

The title of the blog used to be

SEO Competition – Blog 2.0 vs. The Website

But now that I’m targeting the term San Diego SEO, I changed it to

San Diego SEO, Blog SEO & Web 2.0 SEO

Basically I gave the term I’m targeting prominence, plus I gave the keyword ‘SEO‘ more density. This blog is one of my fun blogs. I’m not really targeting any other terms. Normally, I wouldn’t recommend adding a keyword 3 times to the title tag (like I did with ‘SEO’). But like I said, it’s my fun blog.

I was getting traffic from Yahoo! & MSN, but NOT GOOGLE. As you can see in this snapshot I took (with the time & date) that my rankings for the term ‘san diego seo’ was horrible.

San Diego SEO SERP

Before I made that title tag change on Thursday, August 7th 2008 Blog Optimizer was ranked #498 for the term ‘san diego seo

*Disclaimer – That Thursday night I wrote the post; Web 2.0 Tags + SEO = Search Engine Love

Now look at the change in ranking the next day.

San Diego SEO Results

The next day (Friday, August 8th 2008) BlogOptimizer was ranked #63 for the term ‘san diego seo

*Disclaimer #2 – Since that site is a blog, it has the ability to jump 400 spots AND fall 400 spots overnight (literally). If you search for San Diego SEO now, I’m willing to bet that BlogOptimizer is not #63 anymore. Blogs are very fluid in the SERP’s unless that blog has strong link strength.

In case you didn’t know how important titles were to websites, search a term in Google and see that 9 out of the top 10 sites have that targeted term in their the listing titles.

I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my SEO blog. I really do appreciate it. You can read another related post (found below) or subscribe here. Once again, thank you for visiting James’ SEO blog.

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