“How Changing One Single Onpage Optimization Factor Can Boost Your Rankings By Over 350 Positions!”

Ok, so now we've selected our main 3 keywords:

• weight loss story
• weight loss picture
• safe weight loss

Notice that all of the keywords contain the word "weight loss". This will make things easier for us when we begin to optimize our offpage ranking factors which you'll learn about later.

Let's Optimize Our Webpage ...

Step 1: The first thing we need to do is select a page Title for our website.

The page title should:

Include ONLY our main keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the title, the more weight Google will give to each of the keywords and the higher you will rank.

When creating your page title, it should not look like this:

• Welcome to our website!

It should not even look like this, which does contain our main keywords, but contains an unnecessary number of words:

• weight loss story and weight loss picture and safe weight loss

Although that title isn't horrible and does contain all of your main keywords, you should do a couple of things to cut down on words used.

This would be a perfect title for your webpage:

• Weight Loss Story | Safe Weight Loss Picture

Notice that I've:

• Taken out all of the "ands"
• Replaced one of the "ands" with a "|" character
• Note: This character is located on the keyboard directly above the "enter key".
• Combined the keywords "Safe Weight Loss" with "Weight Loss Picture”

Always Combine Your Keyword When Possible to cut down on the total number of words that are in your title!

Always Combine Your Keywords In The Page Title!

When Google looks at our title it will see all 3 of our keywords only. Combining keywords to cut down on the total number of keywords displayed in the title is a great way to boost the strength of each individual keyword, which will have an immediate impact on your ranking.

Add <h1> header tags

• Next we'll need to add 1 <h1> header tag and place our most important keyword there.

The <h1> header tag should be as far towards the top left hand side of the page as possible. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page, and then follows down to the bottom right hand side of the page. So, it's best to place your <h1> header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page.

You can think of an <h1> header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page. For example, the <h1> header tag of this chapter would have been: "How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 350 positions!”

... and the html code used to create this title would look like this: <h1>"How changing 1 onpage optimization factor can boost your rankings by over 350 positions!"</h1>

Of course, I would have changed my lesson title to contain my main keyword if I was actually trying to optimize this page for Google. Also, if possible, it's ideal if you can include ONLY your main keyword within the h1 header tags. <h1>Weight Loss Story</h1> would be a perfect header tag.

Add <h2> header tags

Next, we'll need to create an <h2> header tag. This can be thought of as a sub heading for our webpage. You should place your 2nd most important keyword in the <h2> header tag. The <h2> tag should be placed somewhere towards the top half of your webpage.

• A good <h2> header tag for our example would be:

<h2>safe weight loss<h2> (Usually it's best to place your primary keyword in your <h1> tags and your secondary keyword within the <h2> tags.

After we've done this, we need to actually create the content for our webpage. When writing the content, try to evenly sprinkle your main keywords throughout the copy.

Note: Don't overdo it though. If you simply repeat your keyword over and over like this: weight loss story about weight loss story that I have a weight loss story and weight loss story...

Google will immediately see your website as search engine spam and you will not rank well. So, try to keep in mind that you're creating your website for the eyes of REAL people.

Try to mention each keyword in a natural way as you are writing, but be sure to include at least one of the keywords per 1-2 paragraphs, depending on how large your page is.

Tip: Make sure to mention your main keyword at the very top left and the very bottom right hand side of the webpage. A trick I like to use is to include this in the copyright information line at the bottom of the website. For our example, this would be a good example: © 2005 copyright www.domain.com a weight loss story

Notice that it flows and doesn't really look too strange.

Bolding, italicizing and underlining ...

• Once we've finished writing the copy, we should go through and bold, underline, or italicize some of the keywords only 1 time each, maximum. Only do 1 per keyword or it will hurt you more than it helps.
  

Properly include <alt> image tags ...

• Next, add an alt image tag to the very top image of your webpage (This is usually your website's header graphic). Use the <alt> image tag using the text "weight loss story header".

The html code used to add an <alt> image tag would look like this: <img src="YourGraphic.jpg" width="503" height="93" alt="weight loss story">

Next, click on 2 more graphics throughout your webpage and enter your other 2 keywords, plus an extra word like "graphic" or "image"... For example, we would use "weight loss picture graphic" and "safe weight loss image". This ensures that Google won't view this as spam.

Force Google To Read Your Keywords First!

Now, remember I stated above that Google reads your webpage from top left, to bottom right? Well, in general they do, but because most websites contain a left hand column which contains all of their navigation links, as shown below:

Google WILL View all of the text in the left hand column Before The Body of the webpage. This isn't good for us, because we want Google to actually read our content first!

How can you get around this? I've come up with a neat little trick that will ensure that Google reads the actual body of your webpage before the left hand column containing your navigational links.

Here is what you need to do:
Rather than creating a table that looks like this, which is essentially what the website above looks like...

You should create a table that looks like this:

By doing this, Google will read the top left hand row/column first (This is labeled "empty column") BUT will see that it is empty, so it will then read the body text of your webpage and then read the 2nd left hand row/column which contains your navigational links!

That's all there is to it!

In summary, I really want to point out the fact that, although good onpage optimization is something you'll really want to do, it is NOT how you make dramatic changes in your search engine ranking!

This is one of the biggest misconceptions in the search engine world. Many believe that by getting your keyword density just right, or by moving your keywords around on the page in just the right places, you'll really move up in the search engines.

Note: Keyword Density is the percentage of times a keyword appears on your page, compared to the total number of words on the page.

Example: If there were 10 total words on a webpage and your keyword, "dog", was listed on the page 3 times, the keyword density for the word "dog" would be 30% (3/10=.30).

Anyway, before we move on, I want you to know that what I've taught you so far are only onpage optimization methods. These are things you should do to your webpages, but will only move your website up a few places in the search engines. It is the offpage optimization factors that will get you high rankings. I will teach you exactly what offpage optimization factors are, AND how to make sure you optimize this perfectly for Google and the other major search engines!