Search Engines: Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your (Plone) Web Site
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As the internet continues to be a greater resource for you and your clients, it's more important than ever to have a successful internet marketing strategy. A major component of this strategy, made easy by Plone's content management system, is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO refers to improving your website's rank and prevalence in searches conducted using internet search engines such as Google or Yahoo.
There are many SEO tactics, the most important of which is to continuously update the content on your website. In addition to increasing rankings, this is beneficial to current visitors to your site, and a resourceful website is more likely to be shared with others and to be revisited. This will increase your clients and supporters and also increase the potential for other websites to create links to your site. These links will lead to higher traffic to your site and will increase your rank in search engines!
Luckily, content management systems such as Plone can be easily and effectively optimized. Here are the top 5 things you can do to optimize your site:
1. Consistently update your content.
2. Make sure that your titles and descriptions are relevant and useful for search engine result display (Plone makes it easy to have metadata that search engines use by using the information you put right into the site!).
3. Create a linking strategy: A fundamental factor in your site's rank is the number and quality of links to your site. Create links to other sites on your page and request links from related and respectable companies/organizations.
4. Continue to add to or change your keywords. Determine which keywords your competitors and collaborators are using that may also be useful for you.
5. Make your website a good resource by adding documents and downloads.
Results of SEO include a higher number of visitors to your website, a higher quality of visitors to your website, higher search engine rankings and an increase in quality relationships within your field or community. ifPeople can assist you in benchmarking and monitoring your web site's ranking and statistics to help track the success of maintaining content. Search engines' URL ranking results change from week to week, so maintaining your web site's resources, links and content will prove to be beneficial!
