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Search Engine Optimization

Okay, the other article was too technical and confusing, so here is a condensed version:
Simple steps for optimizing your website for the search engines.

Step One
Take an hour, and think about what your website offers. Make a list. Be general and specific. Let's say you sell art prints. Not only do you offer prints, but these are great gifts, anniversary, father's day, holiday gifts, they are also wonderful home decorations, or office decorations. You are also maybe representing different artists.
Step Two
Pretend that you are looking for the things that your website offers. What phrases would you type into a search engine to find them? Write these down. These are your keyword phrases. For example: "art prints, landscape prints, certain artist, anniversary gift, office art..."
Step Three
To better expand your keywords, go to wordtracker.com and click on their free trial in the left hand column. Type in one of your search phrases. They will come up with alternatives. Some may reflect your site, some may not. Choose from what they come up with and add them to your list.

Enter a search phrase below and see other suggestions from wordtracker and overture. (tool on digital point solutions page)
Phrase:
Brought to you by Digital Point Solutions

or try these sites:

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

Step Four
From this list that you've compiled in step two and three, put together a list of relevant search phrases for each page of your website.
Make up a title for the page, and use some of these search words in the tile.
Come up with a short, enticing description of each page, once again using some of the search phrases.
Make sure the text copy on your page has some of your search phrases in it.

Step Five
Hand everything that you've just come up with, the search phrases, the title, the description and the copy to your web designer. Tell them to read the technical instructions and place everything where it belongs, OR if you have a site that goffgrafix.com designed, you probably can update all the search engine text through your content management interface.


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