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Simple SEO Tips For Lawyers

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Select a domain with a clean website history
There is no doubt that the age of your domain name and that domains registry history effects its ability to acheive high rankings with Google and other top search engines.  It is also believed Google may give extra value to your domain/website if the domain is registered for five or more years as opposed to the standard one or two years.

Keep in mind that if your domain name has once been used by spammers, you may suffer the consequences. 

Tip: Avoid tricks to fool Google and other search engines.
Search engines have 1 purpose that is to return the most relevant web pages for the end user. When you try and manipulate the search engine alogythms you run the risk of losing your rankings. Make sure that your web pages will answer the questions of people who search for your keyword. The better your web pages match the interest of the web searchers the better rankings you will get.

Keep in mind that Google and other top search engines now use human editors to monitor and review websites!!!

Tip: Keep your site is relevant
Your website should be relevant to its keywords.Google wants to know if your web page is relevant for the keywords. You have to optimize your web pages in a way that Google can easily index and find out what your website is about. Consider the following elements when optimizing your web pages:

  • The URL structure
  • The title tag
  • meta description tag
  • meta keywords tag
  • The body text
  • H1 tag
  • H2 tag
  • Image alt attributes
  • Internal linking structure of your site
  • The outbound links
  • Many other factors in the HTML code of your web pages

Each element should contain keywords or keyword phrases that show Google that your website is relevant for that keyword. Rookies at seo make the mistake of overstuffing keywords and that could get your website banned from Google’s search results or put on the Google suppliment list. It’s important that you optimize the right elements and that you insert your keywords in the right frequency.

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