An Important Step That Must Be Done Before You Start To Design Your Own Website
Before you start creating and collecting contents for your website, you need to look for some suitable keywords that are related to your website contents. The keywords that you will be choosing ought to be the one that has lots of searches that people made on search engines and with little competition for you to compete.
There’s a free keyword research tool at http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends/ that can help you to find the keywords for your website. If you’re not sure how to use this keyword research tool, there is information on this blog itself which I’ve posted earlier that explained about how to use this tool. You can read it at http://successmarketingsolution.com/blog/2010/05/what-to-sell-on-internet.
Once you’ve found your suitable keywords, you need to check the PageRank on your competitor’s website that uses your keywords. But before that you need to install Google’s toolbar into your computer which can be downloaded at http://www.google.com/toolbar/. This toolbar will help you to check on your competitor’s page rank.
This is how the toolbar looks like after the installation and located at the top page when you browse the internet.
Let me give an example of what you should do.
Let’s say you are creating a site related to guitar. Your suitable keywords for your website are ‘free guitar music’, ‘free easy guitar music’ and ‘free guitar music for beginners’.
Head over to Google and type in one of your keyword into the search box. That will bring the list of your competitor’s websites.
Click on the #1 website and check its PageRank on the Google’s toolbar. See the red arrow.
If you want to use the keyword for your website, you need to be sure that your competitor’s website has the PageRank of 4 and below. But if the website has a PageRank of 6 and above, it’s probably not good to shoot for that keyword yet until you build some traffics on other less competitive keywords.
Once you have finished analyzing all your keywords, you can now start to collect your keyword related contents and create your website.
This is what you need to do when you start to design your website.
Step 1
Select a page title for your website which includes all your keywords. Based on your selected keywords that is ‘free guitar music’, ‘free easy guitar music’ and ‘free guitar music for beginner’, the ideal title for your website will be “Free And Easy Guitar Music For Beginners” which has the combination of all your keywords and at the same time cutting down the total number of words.
It’s not best to write “Free Guitar Music And Free Easy Guitar Music And Free Guitar Music For Beginners”. This is way too long for your title. Even though it has all your keywords but Google gives more weight on titles that has least amount of words.
Step 2
Add <h1> header tags with your primary keyword. You can think of your <h1> header tag as the title of your content which contain your main keywords and should be place at the top left hand side or top middle portion of your page.
Let me show you an example.
If you’re using FrontPage website editor, all you have to do is to highlight the text you want to make as <h1> header tag, then click the dropdown button (the red box) and select “Heading 1”.
Step 3
Add <h2> header tags with your secondary keyword. This can be thought of as a sub heading of your page which contains the second most important keyword and place towards top half of your webpage.
Step 4
Create the contents for your webpage and try to sprinkle your keywords throughout your copy but don’t over do it though. Write your contents in a natural way but try to include your keywords per 1-2 paragraphs.
Step 5
Use bolding, italicizing and underlining on some of your keywords in your content.
Step 6
Add your remaining keywords into <alt> image tag to the very top image in your website. This could be your website’s header graphic. You can even do the same thing to images if you have it on the body of your websites.
If you’re using FrontPage website editor, right click on the image, click ‘Picture Properties’, then click on ‘General’. You’ll find a box to write in your keywords. See example below.
That’s it, you’re done.
This process is also known as onpage optimization which can help to boost your website search engine ranking. Most people made a mistake by not doing these steps before they start creating their website and when they realize about the mistakes, they have to start all over again from the beginning, wasting a lot of time.
When you are analyzing your keywords it’s best to check on the top 5 websites from the list.
By the way, if you need website editor software, you can get for free at My Free Website Builder .
Cheers.
Matt Kasmani



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