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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes By Leonardo Wood After doing extensive research on SEO I have now found out how to optimize a website and currently have hundreds of my own web pages optimized to appear on the 1st page of Google. My methods are easy and anyone with a basic knowledge of the internet can use them to optimize their own website. Where SEO is concerned you do not have to be at the mercy of your website designer, you can research what your website needs and then tell your website designer just what you want. Many website designers do not really have a clue when it comes to SEO so if you are in the know it will only help to give a boost the SEO of your site. All you need to do is just learn a series of simple techniques on what to do to change your website to improve its performance on Google. As your website climbs in the Google rankings you will start receiving more visitors and can then use your website as an effective marketing and selling tool. These simple techniques... 

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes By Leonardo Wood Keyword research is a very important process that should be used in determining the best keywords to use to get the most visitors to your website. Using keywords that have too much competition or, at the other end of the scale, are so far out that no one ever searches them can have a serious effect on how successful your SEO will be. Here are some suggestions on how to decide on the best keywords to use and develop your keyword list:- Firstly, decide on your main keyword eg. Restaurant in Boston Then write down all the variants of these keywords:- Restaurants in Boston Restaurant Boston Restaurants Boston Boston Restaurant Boston Restaurants Restaurant in the Boston Area Then come up with some alternative keywords relevant to Restaurants i.e. Cafe Places to Eat Bistro etc. Then replace the word Restaurant as in the above example with each of the alternative keywords e.g. Cafe in Boston Cafes in Boston Cafe Boston Cafes Boston Boston Cafe Boston... 

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes By Leonardo Wood The most powerful strategy to consider when optimizing your website to get ranked on the first page of Google is the Title Tags of your web pages. This is because when Google searches its database of pages to give you your search results, it actually looks at the Title Tags to determine if the page is relevant to your search or not. The Title Tag or Page Title is the text that you can see in the blue bar on the left hand side at the top of a web page (where the minimize/maximize buttons are). If your chosen keywords that are relevant to your web page are not in the Title Tag then Google is going to find it very difficult to find your page and determining that your page is relevant to the search being carried out. Most people do not realise the importance of having your keywords in the Title Tags of their web pages and this is why, when you visit a lot of websites, you will see that the Title Tags of the page only contain the Company name... 

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes By Leonardo Wood When someone searches for a keyword or set of keywords on Google they are presented with a series of results. Each of these results are used as the free listing and are taken from the webpage they are on. They are made and from three separate parts; the Headline, the Description and the URL or domain name. By ensuring that you include your keywords within these three sections you are making your page extremely relevant for those keywords and, as Google loves relevancy, you will then be climbing in the Google rankings until you get to that sought after first page position. First of all include your keywords in the headline of the web page. This is the Page Title (also know as Title Tag) of your page which is the white wording in the blue bar at the top of your page. Also use your keywords in the meta data or description of your web page. This is normally within the back end of a website, but if you do not have a page description already...