On-page optimization is the process of coding a website so that search engines can better index the site, leading to higher returns in search results pages. In most cases when a website was built, the developers didn’t really take much notice of getting it to the top of search results by purposely coding for search engines, but in principal the goal was to get the website up to have a presence on the web. However, these days with many people running businesses from websites it is imperative to have an advantage over a competitor. The first step is to get your site to the top of search results pages and this can be helped by on-page optimization. This process includes better coding of the site, good page content, sitemaps and internal page linking. All of which will help the search engines index your page faster and improve the position of the site in search results.

How can SiteHand help you with on-page optimization? There are a few steps which we will describe below but generally we go through your website as it is and make recommendations on how you can improve it to make it more search engine friendly.

On-page optimization is completed in a few steps.

• Determine with you what keywords and key phrases that are relevant to your site and which ones you wish that Search Engines will index as a priority.
• Check your site for use of META tag information. This can be from the title of the pages, description of the pages, to the keywords used for each page.
• Check how you utilize your keywords and key phrases in the content of your site.
• Check the internal linking of the pages within your site.
• Once we have thoroughly checked the site we will make recommendations to you.
• We can then implement the changes to your website.