Wednesday 1 August 2012

The 10 Commandments of SEO




Adhere to these 10 commandments for all the days of thy life and thou shalt avoid many smitings. 

Keep them close to thou heart always. 


Your search engine is your sole source of free traffic. Even if you’re getting traffic from forums or blogs – that traffic itself has started out as a search engine query. Don’t forget that 

The search engines have the almighty power.


1st Commandment

Thou shalt have content as close to the top level of thy site as possible

2nd Commandment

Thou shalt group content into logical “buckets” based on topical relevance

3rd Commandment

Thou shalt make it as easy as possible for users to share content

4th Commandment

Thou shalt not buy links or spam

5th Commandment

Thou Shalt Honor Your Users by creating high-quality content for them, not simply for search engines

6th Commandment

Thou Shalt Not Overkill with Flash

7th Commandment

Thou shalt not stuff URLs with unnecessary words.

8th Commandment

Thou shalt not use redirects that are on a timer or are on the client side.

9th Commandment

Thou shalt not show web crawlers content that is different than the content shown to humans.

10th Commandment

Thou Shalt Not Use SEO Keywords in Vain