Get it ready for search engines
Friday, February 5, 2010 9:42I decided to post up an additional step today because it’s Friday and what better time do you have to do some research on this next step than the weekend! So after you get finished posting your first article today, take a stab at this next step. If you have any questions or need help, feel free to post a comment to this post and I’ll try to check it as much as I can over the weekend and get back to you.
Ok, let’s get started. You have finally posted your first article on your website so now what? In this next step we are going to concentrate on getting it ready for submission to the search engines. This is also a great time for me to reveal the subject of my niche content website to you because I have written an article on this very subject. Because of the experience I have in search engine optimization and web design I decided to create the Ultimate Website Traffic Secrets website. I’m going to ask each of you to head over to my new niche content website and read the article “Optimize Your Website Meta Tags”. This article is exactly what today is about. You are going to be creating “meta” tags to put into the header page of your website.
What exactly are Meta tags? Meta tags are snippets of code filled with keywords and phrases that are found between the < HEAD> and < /HEAD> tags of your website and will help you get your search engine ranking up. Once you finish reading the article you should have a good understanding on how to create the Meta tags. Create your Meta tags in notepad so that you can tweak them based on keywords. Once you are satisfied with them then we can go ahead and move onto adding them to the website.
Just how do you get that code into your website anyway? The first thing you need to do is login to the admin center of your blog. I am using WordPress for all my examples so if you aren’t using WordPress, you will need to find other instructions. Once you are logged in, click on the tab “Appearance” tab and then select “Editor” from the submenu. Now comes the confusing part right? Well, not really. It’s actually pretty easy. On the right hand side you will see a bunch of files names. We are looking for one called “header”. If you click on that, the main page area will be filled with all of the code that makes up the header portion of your website.
The code that you wrote that make up your Meta tags needs to be placed inside of the <head> and </head> tags. I typically find it’s easiest to just look for the </head> line and put my Meta tag code directly on the line above it. Just make an empty line above and then copy and paste in all of your Meta tag code inside of it. Once it’s in there press the “Update File” button and your Meta tags are in place. Check your main website home page and be sure no funny code or characters are showing up to be sure you formatted them correctly.
That’s all there is to it. In my next post we are going to talk about how to actually submit your website to all of the major search engines, so get ready for it!
