What is On-page Optimization

Onpage optimization refers to all measures that can be taken directly within the website in order to improve its position in the search rankings. Examples of this include measures to optimize the content or improve the meta description and title tags. Conversely, off-page SEO refers to links and other signals.


Some important factors in Onpage SEO:

Title tag Optimization:
A title tag is an HTML element that specifies the title of a web page. Title tags are displayed on search engine results pages (SERPs) as the clickable headline for a given result, and are important for usability, SEO, and social sharing.

Title tags are also part of what makes people decide whether to visit your site when it shows up in the search results. The title tag should contain important keywords to help the search engine determine what the page is about.

"It is a Google Ranking Factor"

Regardless of the language that the website is built in, Robots crawl the website via "html" source.

<head> tag is usually for crawlers/bots
<body> tag is usually for users

Title tag: The title tag is very effective in SEO

Rules for Title Tag:
66 Characters

Must include keywords 

Meta Description:

The meta description is a ~160 character snippet, a tag in HTML, that summarizes a page's content. Search engines show the meta description in search results mostly when the searched for phrase is contained in the description. Optimizing the meta description is a very important aspect of on-page SEO.

The meta description is the short paragraph of text placed in the HTML of a webpage that describes its content. The meta description will then appear under your page’s URL in the search results. 

"Not a Google Ranking Factor"

<meta name="description"content"

Rules:
160 to 167 characters

Must include keywords 

Meta Keywords:

Meta Keywords are a specific type of meta tag that appear in the HTML code of a Web page and help tell search engines what the topic of the page is. ... The most important thing to keep in mind when selecting or optimizing your meta keywords is to be sure that each keyword accurately reflects the content of your pages.

Meta Keywords are a specific type of Meta tag that appear in the HTML code of a Web page and help tell search engines what the topic of the page is. Meta keywords are distinguished from regular keywords because they appear “behind the scenes,” in the source code of your page, rather than on the live, visible page itself.

Meta keywords play 0% role in SEO
<meta name="keywords"content= "........">
"Not a Google Ranking Factor"
Do not use meta keywords:
- Use it if client wants it.
- Used for internal searching
On page should have 5 to 8 keywords optimized

Meta Robots:

Meta robots tag is a tag that tells search engines what to follow and what not to follow. It is a piece of code in the <head> section of your webpage. It’s a simple code that gives you the power to decide about what pages you want to hide from search engine crawlers and what pages you want them to index and look at.

Another function of the meta robots tag is that it tells search engine crawlers what links to follow and what links to stop with. When you have a lot of links going out of your website you should know that you lose some Google juice. And as a result, your page rank would lower down. So what you want to do is to keep that juice to yourself with some of the links – and you tell the search engine crawlers not to follow the links going out of your site because in doing so, they will also take some of your Google juice with them.

<meta name="robots"content="......">
Tools that help create seo pro meta tags.
addme.com

metataggenerator

Robots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/


Content Optimization:
The process of making your website's home page or a particular page on your website more attractive to search engines and users is called optimization. There are several parts of your website that we will review and improve as part of this process. These include the content or copy, broken links, title tags and Meta tags. Once these improvements are implemented, search engines will find it easier to index your website and display it in relevant search results.

- Content is the king
- Content must be original
- Content should be helpful
- Content should be fresh

Content must be keyword rich

Keyword density - One keyword
- Minimum once
- Maximum 2-3 times in 500 words
 4-6 times in 1000 words

Keyword Stuffing:
Google alerts if keyword are added more than required.

Keyword Lagging:
Google alerts if keyword are less than required.

Content Length:

Content length minimum (350 to 500) words
If site is informational, then at least (100) words
If site is ecommerace, then upto 350 words
If site is business, then upto 500 words

Keyword Formatting: 

Does not really matter or apply in SEO
Keyword Proximity: www.thesaurcus.com

Use relevant synonyms along with keyword so google recognizes the suggested meaning use the most common word in the field you are working on.

Site-Map:

In simple terms, a Sitemap is an XML file that is full of your individual webpage's URLs. It's like an archive of every webpage in your website. This file should be easily discoverable in your site in order for search engine crawlers to stumble upon it.


Site Structure:

A website’s structure refers to how the website is set up, i.e. how the individual subpages are linked to one another. It is particularly important that crawlers can find all subpages quickly and easily when websites have a large number of subpages. For this reason, a website’s homepage needs to have links to the most important subpages. Files such as sitemap.xml and robots.txt also help the crawler do its job in this regard.

Organize relevant files into folders so that google finds is easy to index my website & crawl.
Also if it crawls to one page in any folder will pick up and take data from all the other existing pages in the same folder.
  
                                                           Home
Category 1                                category 2                             category 3
page 1 page 2 page 3

                                                            page 1
                                                            page 2
                                                            page 3

Site become themed
Ranking factor increase


URL Optimization:

Url Optimization means optimizing the url structure so that search engines can crawl your pages efficiently and include your keywords in the url. 

Do not use as one word to avoid double meaning picked up by google bots.
Do not use space as it picks up % instead.
use hypen instead
- Url must be include keywords
- Use hyphen as word seperator
-  Do not use underscore either it acts same as space.
- Do not use special characters

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