Before doing off- page optimization, on-page optimization is compulsory in the search engine optimization process. When the internet user searching some services from search engine and come to your website and if your website is not in proper format, the content of the website is not good quality and valuable at that time the user will not interest in your business and just live from you website. So On-page is necessary before doing off-page optimization.
Steps in On-page optimization are:
Keyword Research:
Keyword Research can be defined as choosing the words, which describe your product or service as, seen from the viewpoint of your target market. These will be the most important steps in the search engine optimization process. Keyword Research is the process of defining the right mix of keywords, which are most likely to be used by potential customers at search engines and directories. This Keyword research consists of a variety of inputs, both qualitative and quantitative, both creative and analytical. Keyword Research plays a crucial role in assuring that your prospective customers will find you when they are looking for your specific products and services.
Meta tag creation:
Meta tags are xhtml or html fundamentals that give the structural information of your webpage. Meta tags are used in the head section of the html code. It defines the title, description and keywords of the webpage. All are define as below:
Title tag: This tag gives the heading of your page. The search engine will refer your website through title tag. The length of this tag is 40 to 65 characters.
Description tag: It gives the effective and brief introduction of the page of your website. This will not display on the page itself. The maximum length of this tag is 0 to 250 characters.
Keywords tag: This tag define the targeted key phrase of your website. The maximum length of this tag is 0 to 300 characters.
H1 tag: Title /heading of the page should be mentioned in H1 tag, the length of title should be limited to 60-80 characters. The standard usage of H1 tag is 3 times for the home page and once in the inner pages.
Alt tag: When you are using img tag to insert images on the web pages. This tag can include the ALT= attribute, which means attribute text. Search engines also read ALT texts.
W3C Validation: After Meta tag creation process was done the final steps is to checking the all html code of your website is called “W3C Validation process".
Steps in Off-page optimization:
After doing the on-page optimization the next step is off-page optimization.
