Simple SEO tips #2

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1. Allow Google to find your photos by enable “Enhanced image search” in your Google Webmaster Central account. Images are a big part of the new blended search results, so will help your SEO efforts.

2. Add social involvement tool / components to your web site or blog – vote, pooling, reviews, sharing shoutbox, ratings, visitor comments, etc.

3. Enrich your blog/site to include video, podcasts, news, social content and so forth. It also SEO nutrition.

4. When considering a link purchase or exchange, check the cache date of the page where your link will be located in Google. Search for “cache:URL” where you substitute “URL” for the actual page. The newer the cache date the better. If the page isn’t there or the cache date is more than an month old, the page isn’t worth much.

5 If you have pages on your site that are very similar (you are concerned about duplicate content issues) and you want to be sure the correct one is included in the search engines, place the URL of your preferred page in your sitemaps.

6. Check your server headers. Search for “check server header” to find free online tools for this. You want to be sure your URLs report a “200 OK” status or “301 Moved Permanently ” for redirects. If the status shows anything else, check to be sure your URLs are set up properly and used consistently throughout your site.

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