You need to understand that your website should be friendly to the search engines, especially the big ones like Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Your job as a site owner does not finish with the completion of designing of your website. Infact, this is the time when you need to focus on quality of the site from search engines’ point of view. The big ones like Google and Yahoo are the ones that can send a lot of traffic your side. And before they do so, you need to make sure that the site looks extremely nice and search engine friendly to them.

Now, a few of you would look for search engine optimization companies to help you gain organic rankings over a period of time. While that is a fair approach, it makes sense to take some initial steps to ensure that your website looks good to the search engines. Given below are 5 small tips that can help you in making your site friendly for the search engines and ensure that it gets the right attention from major engines like Google.

The title of web page is the first starting point where you need to insert keywords of the business. When a site has been designed, you will normally see that the title is set to ‘Welcome’ or ‘New Site’. This title is useless for the search engines because they do not know what is the subject of your website. Title is the first point of interaction between your site and the search engines and if it is set properly, this interaction can help you in getting good exposure on the search engines.

If you go overboard while inserting keywords in the title, there is a likelihood of your attempts being seen as attempts to spam the search engines. Keep the title length below 70 characters and avoid adding more than 3 keywords in the title of the web pages, because this will bring the maximum benefits to you.

3. Ensure that you have a good description of the page that is added in the Meta Tag Description. I would normally insert a couple of keywords in the description and coin my sentence around those keywords. Remember to ensure that description needs to be under 160 characters for complete impact. Anything above 160 is ignored.

4. Signup for Google Webmasters tool, and validate your site. This is important and adds credibility to your site’s architecture as far as Google is concerned. And the Google Webmaster Tool allows you a lot many privileges that are otherwise unavailable.

Next is the sitemap creation. Your website needs to have an XML sitemap created. Once the sitemap has been done on your site, you must allow the Google Webmaster Tool to visit this sitemap because a sitemap allows your content to be presented in an organized way and will allow easy indexation of site.

In summary, you can see that about an hour of your effort will make sure that your website follows the rules and makes your site friendly to the search engines to enjoy maximum benefits. And if you find all this a bit annoying, you can use a professional SEO company to perform these steps for you while you enjoy your coffee breaks.

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