Here’s a simple search engine optimization guide
1. Create Good Content
Good Content = Audience
2. Create Great Content
Great Content = Larger Audience
3. Make Bot Friendly Markup
See: Schema Markup
, JSON-LD
, Twitter Meta
, Og-Graph
, and MicroData
This HTML guide should help you do the necessary and implement these markups: HTML for beginners
Hugo users, kindly check this article
out.
4. Load Content/Site Fast
Slow Site=Low Engagement & Interaction.
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SEO Glossary
NB: Not in any order
Crawling: The process by which search engines discover your web pages.
De-indexed: Refers to a page or group of pages being removed from Google’s index.
Indexing: The storing and organizing of content found during crawling.
Intent: In the context of SEO, intent refers to what users really want from the words they typed into the search bar.
KPI: A “key performance indicator” is a measurable value that indicates how well an activity is achieving a goal.
Organic: Earned placement in search results, as opposed to paid advertisements.
Query: Words typed into the search bar.
Ranking: Ordering search results by relevance to the query.
Search engine: An information retrieval program that searches for items in a database that match the request input by the user. Examples: Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
SERP features: Results displayed in a non-standard format.
SERP: Stands for “search engine results page” — the page you see after conducting a search.
Traffic: Visits to a website.
URL: Uniform Resource Locators are the locations or addresses for individual pieces of content on the web.
Backlinks: Or “inbound links” are links from other websites that point to your website.
Bots: Also known as “crawlers” or “spiders,” these are what scour the Internet to find content.
Caching: A saved version of your web page.
Crawl budget: The average number of pages a search engine bot will crawl on your site
Crawler directives: Instructions to the crawler regarding what you want it to crawl and index on your site.
Engagement: Data that represents how searchers interact with your site from search results.
Index: A huge database of all the content search engine crawlers have discovered and deem good enough to serve up to searchers.
Internal links: Links on your own site that point to your other pages on the same site.
Meta robots tag: Pieces of code that provide crawlers instructions for how to crawl or index web page content.
NoIndex tag: A meta tag that instructions a search engine not to index the page it’s on.
PageRank: A component of Google’s core algorithm. It is a link analysis program that estimates the importance of a web page by measuring the quality and quantity of links pointing to it.
Relevance: In the context of the local pack, relevance is how well a local business matches what the searcher is looking for
Robots.txt: Files that suggest which parts of your site search engines should and shouldn’t crawl.
Sitemap: A list of URLs on your site that crawlers can use to discover and index your content.
Spammy tactics: Like “black hat,” spammy tactics are those that violate search engine quality guidelines.
Inbound Link: A link from one site into another. A link from another site will improve your SEO, especially if that site has a high PageRank.
Internal Link: A link from one page to another on the same website, such as from your homepage to your products page.
Indexed Pages: The pages of your website that are stored by search engines.
Keyword: A word that a user enters in a search. Each web page should be optimized with the goal of drawing in visitors who have searched specific keywords.
Click-Through Rate/CTR: The rate that users click on a website from or organic or paid search results. CTR is a way to gauge title and description performance.
Content Management System/CMS: An application used to manage digital content in a collaborative environment. Popular content management systems include WordPress, Onveos, and Magento.
Conversion: A conversion occurs when a user completes the most important action on a website. Actions can include buying a product, signing up for a newsletter, filling out a contact form, register for a webinar, etc.
Keyword Research: During an SEO campaign, research on competitors and a site’s current rankings helps develop a list of keywords to target for on-page optimization, content development, and link building.
Link Building: The practice of gaining links from other websites to improve the authority of a site. Typical link building includes local citation building, blogger outreach, forums, etc.
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