FREE Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Top 10 tips.

So what do you need to be looking for when you analyse your website? Here are some top tips to help you to identify what’s important when it comes to your website’s design and performance.

1. Is your website valid? An invalid site will affect your ranking within the search engines. You can check your websites html validity by visiting http://validator.w3.org/ and typing in your website’s URL. This will provide you with information on the number of errors, and any additional warnings relevant to your site. If there are any issues, let us know. We can help you to fix the errors identified in order to make your site valid.
   
   
2. Is your website legally compliant? Compliance with the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act 1995) is a legal requirement within the UK. You can check your site at http://www.cynthiasays.com . If your site fails, get in touch with us. We can help you to make sure that you have a fully DDA compliant site.
   
   
3. Is your website accessible? A website should be made as accessible as possible to disabled users. For example, can your site be read by a text reader? Would your site be accessible to someone suffering from colour blindness? There are ways to improve a site’s accessibility using tools such as sitemaps, shortcut keys and access keys.  We can help.
   
   
4. Have you got the right information on your website?  Search engines use certain information contained within your website to identify whether or not it is relevant to a particular keyword search. So, if the right information is not visible in your website, you are missing out on traffic from the search engines. We can work with you to make sure that your website is designed with the right keyword information in order to improve its visibility to search engines.
   
   
5. Does your website have any broken links? Broken links can severely taint the user experience of your site. Test your own site for any link issues by visiting http://validator.w3.org/. If any problems are identified, we can help you to sort them out.
   
   
6. How quickly does your website load?  There are steps that you can take to improve the loading time of your site by compressing certain elements such as graphics.  We can check your website’s load speed and give you ideas on how to improve the performance.
   
   
7. Are your website pages indexed on all the major search engines? The visibility of your site will be greatly improved if pages are indexed on as many search engines as possible. We can analyse your site with this in mind and can make submissions to any search engines that are not currently indexing pages.
   
   
8. Is the content up to date? Every website should be regularly reviewed and updated in order to ensure that all content is relevant and current, as well as to identify any errors that may have occurred within the site such as broken links etc.
   
   
9. Where does your website appear on Google? There are many techniques and tools that can be applied to a site in order to improve its ranking within a search engine. We can offer you a full range of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tools and services that will get your site where you want it.
   
   
10. If you are looking for a professionally designed website, or if you would like your existing site to be redesigned with all of the above points in mind, we can help.  Give us a call and we will be happy to discuss your individual requirements.