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Best layout pages for SEO
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Dear all,
what would be the ideal layout of a webpage for SEO? How would a homepage and landingspage look like?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Ben
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Dear Ruslan,
thanks for your input. It is insightful. I meant, though, what is the ideal wireframe layout for seo of a webpage. So how does the ideal structure of a webpage for seo should look like?
Thanks again for your input!
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Hey Ben,
There many various factors need to be counted in on-page optimisation before you start linkbuilding.
- First of all make sure that your pages are accessible to Search Engines, check robots.txt
- Check if you keywords repeat several times (2-3 is enough) in your page's content
- It will be good if you will have the keyword in your page title, but don't keep only the keyword
for instance if your keyword is "dhow cruise" then the title can be "Unforgettable dhow cruise in US" - Avoid keyword stuffing in Document
- Avoid multiple titles on one page
- No more than one canonical URL tag
(correlation research has shown that pages which employ the targeted keyword(s) at the front of the title tag benefit greatly in the rankings. There is a direct relationship between proximity to the front of the title element and prominence/rankings as seen by the engines, and the further back in the page title the keyword appears, the worse the correlation with high rankings) - Keyword usage in image ALT attribute
- It should be less than 200 words on a page
- Appropriate usage of H1 tag (1 times is enough)
- Meta Keywords and Meta description should be filled it
- Keyword Usage in Bold/Strong/Emphasized/Italics also might help
- Avoid Excessive External Links
- Avoid long URLs
- Don's use a lot of ads on page
Also you can check this article about page layout http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/page-layout-algorithm/
Cheers,
Russel
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