Creating a great website is only half the battle. To really smash the competition and lure in the big bucks, you need to spend sufficient time optimizing your website to bring in more traffic. The best long-term strategy for increasing website visitors is search engine optimization.
Go through this checklist to ensure your site is optimized and ready to begin climbing up in the search rankings.
Keywords in the domain name
Keywords in other major positions (headline tags, alt tags, anchor text)
Inbound links from reputable sites
Internal links throughout your content
Original (non-duplicate) content
Minimal page load speed
Web-friendly text and clean coding
Original (non-duplicate) content
Dynamic sitemap
This is just a simple compilation of the major elements. There are literally dozens more key elements to search engine optimization.
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