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How To Optimize Your Home Page For Google Interested in getting the best bang for your buck? Do you want to have a search engine optimized (SEO) home page. Optimizing  your home page for Google and other popular search engines is not hard to do. The first step towards optimizing your home page is realizing that less is more. There are many reasons why this is important. Having less on your home page is the first step towards search engine optimization. Lets learn why. Less is more… You should have no more than 100 links on your home page. This includes both links to your own pages and current page as well links to other sites and their pages. Do Not Exceed 100 URLs Per Page (Especially your home page). Why?

 

Two reasons.

 

  1. Having 100 links or less on your page makes it easy for you to control and moderate the sites you are linking to from your home page. If you are serious about having an optimized site and serious about working towards getting the most traffic to your pages, you need to control your links. Accountants track every penny, and bloggers should account for every link on their home page. If you have 100 or less, that shouldn’t be too hard to do. Know where you are linking your readers. This is vital information.
  2. Google recommends having 100 links or less. This is one of the first things stated in Google’s Webmaster Tools.
  3. Having 100 links or less on your home page add a higher or increased value to your home page as well as your secondary pages linked from your home page. Less links equals more value. If you sell ad space on your site, the value of this space has increased. The offer of exchanging links with other sites will be more appealing to publishers and site owners. 
  4. Having less than 100 links on your home page can increase your Google PageRank.  When your home page is indexed by Google, having such tight control over your links almost guarantees a very extensive and in-depth crawl into your secondary and deep linked pages by. Having less links on your home page practically draws a map and tells the Googlebots specifically where to go. It’s great to increase Google PageRank to your home page, but having less links creates more interest on secondary pages, which increases Google PageRank on these pages too. If you have an increased Google PageRank on secondary pages, then ultimately you boost your Google PageRank on your home page even more.

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Bryan Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-26-2007 07:00:15 Comment #401

Garry,

I am interested in learning how I can make more off of ads. Do you have any knowledge in this? Anything that could help would be amazing.

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Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-26-2007 07:10:19 Comment #403

Bryan

Yes! I am very knowledgeable in Online Marketing. I have three primary topics I write about here on the site. Google SEO, Successful Blogging, and Online Marketing.

Spend some time reading the articles I have published here on the site. Follow my advise, ask questions, and in a very short time there is no reason why you can’t be successful selling advertisement space on your site.

Here is my overall assessment of your site:

  1. You currently have 172 links on your home page. You need to reduce this down to 100 or less.
  2. Your current blog title is not very relevant to the content found within your site. I would change the name.
  3. You are not making use of meta tags. You have no description, keywords, and author tag. These are still very helpful.
  4. Control your content. Right now you have a better shot at someone finding your site if they type January 25th 2007 compared to anything else you are trying to target. The keyword, Audio Books is found on your home page… was this planned? Did you know that word has been used so many times?
  5. You have to be aware of the content, the context of the content (relevancy), and who, where, and what order you link to other pages (whether they are your own pages or external pages).

I don’t remember if you I had access to your site or not? Was I helping you with SEO? If not, then I can.

I see that you did change the TITLE tag so that the post name is listed first. That is great! But you need to sit down and write down five multi-word search terms that you want to focus your marketing efforts on.

I.E. Google SEO Tips, Successful Blogging Tips, and Online Marketing Tips are my three words that I focus on.

What three to five terms are your primary keywords that you are wanting to market.

Once you know this, then your content needs to back up and support your primary keywords…

Once you have great content, then you can ask yourself… Hmm, what products, services, etc. are relevant to the content on my site? What will work best for my site? Amazon, Adsense, Paid Advertisements?

Take one step at a time… if you start with the basics, then all the others will follow.

Figure out what your site is about… correctly make use of meta tags to help towards identifying it, and be sure to stay on topic with what the content your publish.

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DotMySpot Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-26-2007 14:19:20 Comment #402

Hello there! :) Just dropping by from mybloglog :D nice blog u have here.. gooday!

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Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-26-2007 19:12:04 Comment #404

Hey Dot,

Thanks for the compliment and I like your site a lot. I wil be adding it to my blogroll.

Take care,
Garry

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Bryan Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 1-27-2007 07:40:14 Comment #406

What would be your suggestion on the keywords I use. I really don’t know.

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