How to become # 1 ?: Optimize your site

The ultimate goal of optimization is to achieve the maximum possible relevance to the search query of both individual pages of the site and the entire resource. Thus, the first thing to do is determine which keywords / phrases your potential visitors will be searching for your site. Then you can proceed directly to optimize the pages of your resource in accordance with the proposed search queries.

Identify target potential customers requests

Compile an approximate (primary) list of keywords / phrases that your site is expected to search for your target visitors. Next you will optimize this list, i.e. - adjust to the current reality. To do this, use the special service Yandex-direct. With it, you will get not only the monthly statistics for any selected query from the primary list, but also statistics on the queries that visitors used in conjunction with the primary. As a result, the primary list can undergo significant changes (this is usually the case).

Typically, the keywords / phrases used by your potential customers are more than you might have guessed at first, so you have to carefully consider which ones to take away. And here it is necessary to bear in mind the following:

  • Try to determine which 2-3 search queries best characterize your target visitors. This is extremely important!
  • Remember that the most preferred for optimization will be those requests that:

    • The most specific.
    • Most popular.
    • As little as possible used by your competitors to optimize their sites.

    Thus, the balance of these 3 components determines the choice of key phrases by which the website should be optimized.
  • You can optimize one page of the site for a limited number of key phrases, the total number of words in which it is desirable to put in 8-12 . However, nothing prevents you from optimizing for other queries the other pages of the site. Again, do not forget that the fewer key phrases you use, the more relevant your resource will be to these requests.

  • Make sure that the content of the optimized pages really corresponds to the meaning of the requests, otherwise you will not get targeted visitors, and those that come will simply leave your site without doing you any good.

Optimizing your website pages under key inquiries

So, you have decided on a set of key phrases. Now you can start directly to optimize the pages of your site. You need to know the following:

  1. It is vital: use key phrases in the text of links, TITLE tags, H1-H6, ALT images attributes, META-containers KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION .

  2. Place key phrases on the page not in a haphazard manner, but in strict sequence .

  3. Do not overdo it with optimization! Too much use of key phrases Can be interpreted by the search engine as search spam. As a result, the rating of your site can be reduced, or the resource generally gets to the banlist.

After that you can proceed to the solution of the second mega-goal - to increase the TCI of your site.

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