Friday, July 16, 2010

10 Key SEO Strategies Every Facebook Page Owner Should Know


Facebook Pages are increasingly becoming a “second home page” for businesses online. And while more and more Page owners are learning how to become expert Facebook marketers, Facebook has recently created many new opportunities for Pages to get more traffic through the tried and true methods of – you guessed it – search engine optimization (SEO).


1. Choose the best name for your Facebook Page – and don’t change it


2. Select the best URL (Facebook username) for your Facebook Page


3. Use the “About” text box to place keyword-dense prose near the top of your Page


4. Use the “Info” tab to include more important keywords, text, and high priority links on your Page


5. Create “Static FBML” boxes and tabs to place lengthy content and more static links on your Page


6. Post direct links to your website (or other relevant sites) in your Page’s stream


7. Add photos with captions, events with descriptions, and a discussion forum


8. Get more inbound links to your Facebook Page from the web by posting links to your Page on all your websites


9. Get more intra-Facebook inbound links by getting more Facebook fans


10. Strengthen intra-Facebook reciprocal linking by getting fans to comment and like content in your stream

SEO Process

SEO Process
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a highly technical process,
Here are the key steps in our process:
Keywords and Competitive Analysis
First, we'll review the site structure and search engine rankings for both your website (if any) and those of your competitors. This helps define your 'Before' and 'After' benchmarks for search engine optimization.
Keyword research is next – identifying the words or phrases that your audience is likely to enter into search engines in order to find your products. This research can yield keyword suggestions that can be one of the most beneficial aspects of SEO, with high returns on investment (ROI).
Keyword research consists of three primary activities:
Discovery
We'll guide you to select the most relevant keywords for your store. We'll use the 'root' keywords to generate related single keywords, keyword combinations, and variations like singular, plurals and synonyms.


We'll then compare these keyword suggestions to those in current use by your audience. The goal is to identify the most widely-used search keywords so we can focus on the 'vital few' for your store.
ROI analysis
Popular keywords aren't always the most valuable. Generic keywords can be widely used while also delivering mediocre conversion rates. We'll perform a statistical analysis that highlights relevant keywords with the highest ROI.
Competitive Analysis
This phase will show you the competitive landscape for any given search term. Competitive factors include how diligent sites are to optimization issues, how many relevant inbound links they have received.








The Site Optimization Process consists of:
On-Page Site Optimization
Here we work on a page-by-page basis to optimize your content. We identify the page(s) needing modification and give you the optimized content you need for higher rankings. All our methods follow Best Practices for SEO and are spam-free. We adjust such factors as Title & Meta Tags, Creating/Reframing, Internal Site Links, Keyword-rich Content, and URL framing. When we're done, your site can definitely be considered search engine-friendly.
• Web Page Analysis
We also perform a deep analysis of your website and server, to identify any issues related to standards compliance, domain usage, page structures, internal and external link structure, URL-rewriting, load balancing. any problems that might lower your search engine position.
• Search Engine Markup Semantic Analysis
Here we analyze the source code of your website and correct anything that could make a search engine hesitate or stumble. This analysis also checks the Meta Tags, Titles, Keyword Density and Content on all pages.
Off-Page Site Optimization
Once On-Page Optimization is complete, we'll reload the website to see if further modifications are needed. When everything's perfect, we'll upload the optimized content (with compiled tags) to your server.


Your website is now ready for the major Search Engines and Directories.
Link Building
Boosting Page Rank is the next priority for your optimized site. When all other factors are equal, Search Engines will always favor the page with a higher Page Rank.


Page Rank is essentially 'link popularity.' It's a reflection of how many other websites contain links pointed at your site. (You may also hear these called 'inbound links' or 'non-reciprocal links.')


Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves, AltaVista and others place great importance on incoming links. A large number of high-quality incoming links can help your website beat the competition in the search engine rankings.