Designz Today will list out the Top 5 Search Engine Optimization Techniques:

Search Engine Optimization Technique 1:

Keyword Research. Helps you to target the right customers and users

Design your website with the Target audience in mind. By target audience I mean the people who will be visiting your website. Think what type of search query they will be searching for in a search engine.

And create a webpage with that search query in mind. To easily find out what your target audience are searching for you can use Google Keywords External Tool. On finding your target keywords create more webpages with those keywords in mind. Each of these webpages should have a keyword density of only 3 -4 %.

For example

Consider a website which sells furniture in Los Angeles. Their target audience will be users in Los Angeles who are interested in buying furniture. So their keywords would be “Furniture in Los Angeles” . To easily find out what search queries the users are searching for you can use the Google Keywords Tool

Points to Be Remembered:

Also Please Note that always use only relevant keywords and don't bombard the webpage with Keywords. Only use keywords in places where it has meaning don't just litter it around the whole webpage. Also use the relevant keywords in the Title of the webpage as well as in the meta description

Search Engine Optimization Technique 2:

Original Content: Its worth its weight in gold

Never use duplicate content in your website. Always use fresh and original content. Never forget while designing your website that you are basically designing your website essentially for Human Beings and not for Search Engine Crawlers and Bots. If your content is good people would surely come to your website and when people come your website search engine ranking for your webpages also automatically increases.

Search Engine Optimization Technique 3:

Inbound Links from High Page Ranking Websites

Inbound Links are links to your website from other websites. It helps in increasing the page rank of your website. Because Google considers a link to your website as a vote for your website.

It is important to please remember that Search Engines value inbound links from high page ranking website much more than inbound links from low page ranking websites and websites with no page rank.

1. Write Original Articles and submit them to Article Submission Websites with high Page Rank

Write articles and submit them to ezinearticles.com and articlebase.com. These websites have a page rank of 6 and 7. Write articles which are related to your website and that has original content. At the end of the article provide a link to your website.

2. Write Comments in high Page Ranking Blogs:

You can write relevant comments of good content in High Page Rank and provide a link at the end of the comment to your website.

3.Link exchange with High Page ranking websites:

Finally as a last resort you can consider sending mails to webmasters of various websites asking for inbound links in return for providing a link to their website from your own.

Search Engine Optimization Technique 4:

Use Webmaster Tools of various search Engines.

Use webmaster tools of the various search engines. Google, Yahoo and Bing have their own Webmaster tools. To use the webmaster you should register with the search Engine and embed a meta description tag in the home page of your website. Webmaster tools provides information about crawl errors, when was the last time the search engine bot visited your website, etc.

Please always remember to use a robots file and a sitemap for your website.

Search Engine Optimization Technique 5:

Submit your website to DMOZ directory.

Submit your website to DMOZ directory. DMOZ directory is an open source directory. It is a directory which is dependent on human beings for submitting and checking the website for errors. Website listing in DMOZ directory may take anywhere from 1 month to several months. You can also submit to other web based directory.