What is On-Page SEO? How to optimize your content

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On page optimization is when a web developer combs your site for out dated formatting and makes the necessary changes. We have dealt with many businesses that have an SEO company sending them emails once a week telling them to change their meta keywords and descriptions. Of course keeping up to date with your meta information is important but there is a lot more to consider. Proper H tags, alt tags, and schema to name a few. On-page SEO optimization can be tedious but if done correctly the first time staying up to date with the ever changing web search trends will be easy and painless.

Here is a shortlist of on-page web development optimization tasks that we address for optimal search engine page rank:

Google & Bing webmaster tools verification
Specify preferred domain name (non-www)
Configure search engine friendly (SEF) URLs
Optimized Page Title tags
Custom meta description and keyword tags
Proper use of H1 & H2 heading tags
Optimized image ALT tags
Optimized link Title tags
Content optimization (length & keyword density)
HTML & XML Sitemaps
XML Sitemap submission
Optimized robots.txt
Optimized .htaccess
Google authorship
Schema.org rich snippets
hCard

The search engine algorithms change frequently, sometimes daily, which requires SEOs like us to consistently test and report. If we could only change 3 things on a web page for top page rank, we’d focus on the following.