Push button SEO, don’t make me laugh, if you read any of my SEO posts you know that I’m a big fan of white hat on-page and off-page SEO, and push button doesn’t SEO gimmicks don’t come into it, but the following 11 SEO pointers might.

Appearing in the search engines isn’t an easy task, and appearing at the TOP of the SERP’s is a chance in 1’000’000 at the very least for most competitive search terms… If it were that easy we’d all have a bucket full of money making websites!

Yet there is something that you can do to get better google rankings that is “easy” even for a wordpress novice. Sprinkle These ingredients below liberally upon your young websites… Don’t stuff everything into one pot, your finished stew won’t tats nice!

 11 Simple tips to better onsite SEO

Well there are loads way’s to give your website a boost up the search engine results, but I’m just going to list 11 simple ways to get your On-Page SEO into tip top shape. These are so simple and they are all doable from the post admin panel of your wordpress blog.

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1] Get your main keyword in the title of the article – This is usually set as an H1 for the google spider bots. So why haven’t I put my main keyword phrase in the article title? (Because I’m targeting 2 sets of keywords in this blog post, push button SEO plugin & 11 simple tips for SEO

2] Change your permalink to ensure you get your keyword in there… Many of us know about setting permalinks to %postname%  when we set up our WordPress sites, but we forget that WordPress lets you tweak your permalink url even further. (I tweaked my url even more after taking that screen shot) 

3] Slot your post into the correct SEO’d category, as keyword rich content similar on you site gets you brownie points in the algorithmic eyes of ‘Big G’… If it’s a seruious money post it may be worth considering putting it on it’s own search engine optimised page. Utilizing internal linking as prop.

4] Using he appropiate h3/h2 as article subtitles is a good way to make your human readers now at a glance what your content is related too, and the same applies to when google crawles you and takes a glace too. Those sub-titles do add to the weight of your content subject matter.

5] Site SEO title, this is the bit that appears as a display in search engines is usually limited to 70 charchters.It’s of great importance to have the reader see their search query in the title of the results, wouldn’t you agree? reassuring them that they have found what they are looking for and  click!

6] The tags are something that you may find a few varying opions on, I personally always use a couple of tags as I would for extra seasoning for a pot of stew. A little taste of what has influenced the post that’s the way I look at it, sometimes I do exact match keywords an others not.

7] The bit that you read when searching under your Site SEO title is entered in the ‘meta discription’ Adding your target keyword or phrase in here is again great for human readers but great for google. As again the google spiders are reassured that it’s found the right quality content related to the readers search string.

8] Best practice is to make sure that the first sentence on the page has your main key phrase included or at least a varition of the main or secondary keywords. Now some may arge here that it’s not neccasasary, but unless your Jim Connolly your going to need a little help getting your word out and traffic to you site and onpage SEO helps.

9] Images are seen my human eyes and read by electronic spiders, having an image that complements or envokes the correct thought process or questions works well for reader interaction ane experience. Whilst having you image Alt text discribe for the spiders what the image is about (use your keywords)  gives you brownie points with cherries on top.

10] Now we all know that youtube is a massive search engiine and google gives it massive kudos, blah,blah,blah… However, I say that the reason for the video isn’t to generate traffic, (unless you owned the original video) I would recommend a video is to further engage the reader, get them to “stick around.” The longer a reader stays, the better.

11] LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing is a what the sensible amoungst practice, yu can talk about a keyword subject without plugging the same old phrase over and over again. This post is about SEO being not really push button easy but  simple tips for optimising your onpage SEO google and the reader know without me having to write keyword stuffed dribble.

A Free Push Button SEO Plugin That Helps Your Rank!

Don’t get me wrong here, this isn’t a magic button where you press it and it does al the work for you, again we’d all have a button like that in our med kit, with a trained monkey pressing it. Life isn’t that easy soo don’t fall for the push button and get rich crap.  But Yes the but there is a button you can push and you are reminded of what can do yoou help your search engine optimization.

The button is a wordpress plugin and it’s free and very very useful. I’ve personally paid close to $100 for a plugin that does only a fraction of what this one does… Yo Yeah it’s one I’d recommend you give a whirl, Especially as it’s for free. go and hae a lok at the video that Brian G Johnson made to explain what it does for you.

It’s ot often that I’d give a SEO plugin the thumbs up, but this one does have top class written all over it.

The video will open in a new window – you can download the free push button SEO plugin here too.