How to do On-Page Optimization?
On-page optimization is the act of optimizing different parts of your website that affect your Search Engine Result Page (SERP).We have to continuously work on it and analyse daily .On-page activity can not guarantee Search Engine Result Page (SERP) like Off-page activity ,but still on-page activity is not difficult ,it takes time to get it right.
On-page activities can be controlled and can change on your own website.Here are the few important factors included.
➤Keyword Research
➤Meta Title
➤Meta Description
➤Redirection
➤Header Tags
➤Alt Text For Images
➤Internal Linking
➤Robots.txt
➤Sitemap
➤URL Optimization
➤Content Optimization
Keyword Research
A keyword is a term used to match with the query a person enters into a search engine to find specific information.
Detailed research of Keyword considering your website makes SEO optimization perfect.Research and find out keywords that is less competitive and has more viewers in Keyword Planner.
Think in customers point of view and include those keywords in the website.
Two types of Keywords
➺Short-tail Keywords - The Short-tail Keywords are those keywords that comprise of short words,phrases.They are more general and can be used in all types of article.
➺Long-tail keywords - Contrary to Short-tail Keywords ,Long-tail Keywords consists of two or three words and are more specific and traffic oriented .
Meta Title
After researching suitable Keywords ,insert those targeted Keywords in each pages's Meta Title.
Optimal Length of Meta title is 50-60 characters.
Meta Description
Meta Description is an HTML attribute that provide a brief summary about our web pages .It is shown below the blue clickable link in a search engine result page (SERP).However,depending on a user's query,Google might pull Meta description text from other areas on your page to better answer the searcher's query.
Optimal Length of Meta description is 150-160 characters.
Redirection
Redirection is way to convey users and crawlers where to go ,if the page they are searching is no longer available.Using redirection is simple and if not used correctly ,it will affect website page and SEO Ranking.
What is the reason to use Redirection method?
There are several reasons for a web developer to use redirection page ,some reasons are described below.
➤Moving or deleting Page
➤Buying a new domain and redirecting everyone who lands on old website to new website.
➤If the website is updating in Content Management System (CMS) platform.
➤Directing user to a new destination.
➤Merging two websites to one
There are many Redirects ,some of the important Redirects are described below.
➤301 "Moved Permanently" Redirect
➤If the website is updating in Content Management System (CMS) platform.
➤Directing user to a new destination.
➤Merging two websites to one
There are many Redirects ,some of the important Redirects are described below.
➤301 "Moved Permanently" Redirect
➤302 "Moved Temporarily" Redirect
➤307 Temporary Redirect
➤404 Errors
301 "Moved Permanently" Redirect
This redirect is used when a web page is deleted permanently. 301 is the best way to implement redirects on a website.
302 "Moved Temporarily" Redirect
302 redirect works similarly like 301 redirect ,but using 301 redirect is the best way to get SEO benefits . 302 redirect may cause duplicate content that shows up in SERP.
307 Temporary Redirect
307 is similar as 302 redirect ,but this redirect is more useful than 302 ,this redirect make sure that user wont refresh the page multiple times that contain serious data such credit card in a e-commerce website.
404 Errors
404 errors means that ,the typed URL is wrong or the searched URL is not available.When 404 errors appear traffic to your web page will decrease.
Inorder to avoid it ,web developers should create 404 error page ,so that the user could atleast move into other pages of your own website.
Header Tags
Header tags are important in on-page SEO because they are usually the largest words on the page,and search engines gives more weight than other pages.Header tags starts with h1,h2,h3.
All header tags should use the targeted keywords to improve the ranking in SEPR.
Alt Text for Images
Alt text is an important thing to do for all your images on your website. The text is used to describe about the website or the image.And this text will not be visible to visitors but only to screen reader software to understand the content of your images.
So describing the image will help search engine understand your pages's content.
Internal Linking
Linking to other pages on your website is useful to visitors and is useful to search engines ,Internal linking is also known as Anchor Text.
With good internal linking structure ,search engine index and understand your website well and thus ranking your site accordingly.
Robots.txt
If you want to block certain page from google bots from crawling ,robot.txt is used.
If you want to block all search engine bots from crawling your website,do as follow
User agent:*
Disallow: /
if you want to block certain pages only from crawling
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:/Web page URL/
Sitemap
Sitemap is an XML file that contains all your website pages URL.It's like an archive of every website in your web page.
This file should be easily uncover for search engine to stumble across it.
Generally,there are two types of sitemap
➤XML sitemap
➤HTML sitemap
XML sitemap :- XML sitemap are an important data connected to SEO. It consists of information such as websites URL ,posts,category etc.XML sitemap also provide information such as last modified time/date etc of websites.
HTML sitemap :- This are created for the the visitors to find appropriate pages within the website.
URL Optimization
The way you write URL is an important factor that you must consider. Each word in your URL should be separated by a hyphen (-) or underscore (_) .
Make the URL simple,shorter and catchy .Make the users quickly identify what your page is all about . Try to make it around five words.
Content Optimization
Optimize the content ,title tags,Meta tags,Links of your website.Once these all are improved ,search engine will find it easier to index your website and display it in SERP.