{"id":1382,"date":"2013-09-08T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2013-09-08T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T10:00:16","slug":"how-can-i-improve-my-websites-search-engine-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/how-can-i-improve-my-websites-search-engine-position\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engine Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engine Position?<\/h1>\n<p>Bing have just released a very interesting article on their blog detailing the items that can help your search engines position and what can be detrimental. even though it is bing that has released this info it should also be applicable to Google and the other search engines as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-462  \" alt=\"How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engines Position?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips.png 200w, https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engines Position?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Items that can help improve your sites position;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Title tags<\/li>\n<li>Meta Descriptions<\/li>\n<li>Clean URL<\/li>\n<li>Images and Alt descriptions (also called alt tags)<\/li>\n<li>H1 tags<\/li>\n<li>Rel=Canonical<\/li>\n<li>Robots.txt<\/li>\n<li>Sitemaps<\/li>\n<li>Social sharing options<\/li>\n<li>Unique content<\/li>\n<li>Depth of content<\/li>\n<li>Matching content type to visitor expectations (text, images, video, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Usability Page load times (to a certain point \u2013 faster is great, but not at the expense of usability andusefulness)<\/li>\n<li>Crawlability (AKA discoverability, so can we actually get to all your content)<\/li>\n<li>News \u2013 if you are actually a new site, submit for inclusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Items that you should avoid or that will have little effect;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta Keywords (fill them in if you like, keep it short and relevant, but not a big ranking factor)<\/li>\n<li>Duplicate URLs<\/li>\n<li>Overly long URLs (no set number, but you\u2019ve all seen these)<\/li>\n<li>Cloaking (comes down to your intent, but risky business for sure)<\/li>\n<li>Link buying<\/li>\n<li>Selling links<\/li>\n<li>Link and like farms<\/li>\n<li>Three way links<\/li>\n<li>Content duplication content<\/li>\n<li>Auto following in social media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not a definitive list and not all items will apply to your site, also just having H1 tag on your page will not necessary improve your site unless the tag is used correctly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the full article here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bing.com\/blogs\/site_blogs\/b\/webmaster\/archive\/2013\/07\/26\/27-things-that-help-and-hurt-seo.aspx<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hints and Tips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/tag\/hints-tips\/\">For more of our Hints and Tips click here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong>If you would like more information on our\u00a0Website Design and SEO services or to request a quote please\u00a0<a title=\"Get a Quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/html\/get_a_quote.php\">Contact Us<\/a> and or visit our <a title=\"Website Design and Creation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/html\/web_design_and_development.html\">Website Design and Creation<\/a> section.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engine Position? Bing have just released a very interesting article on their blog detailing the items that can help your search engines position and what can be detrimental. even though it is bing that has released this info it should also be applicable to Google and the other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/how-can-i-improve-my-websites-search-engine-position\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engine Position<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,57,41],"tags":[99,110,60,42,29,298],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-internet","category-seo-2","tag-hints-tips","tag-hints-and-tips-2","tag-search-engine","tag-search-engines","tag-seo","tag-vennercorp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}