Let me start off with a disclaimer. I’m not an SEO expert. But you don’t have to be an expert to get your website optimized for Google. Before I get a bunch of emails on the subject – I know there are lots of other search engines, but for simplicity (and because it’s my search engine of choice). Besides, no one Yahoo’s anything, right?

Back to business. There are a lot of ways you or your virtual assistant can help your site become a little more Google friendly

1. Take advantage of the little things. Everyone knows that you should utilize the title tags of your images. Some people stuff it full of their keywords, others are literal in their descriptions, and others leave it as the default of whatever happened to be. there when they downloaded/uploaded the picture.

Your chair should be pulled up in between. See the picture up there? The one of the Google stress ball? The title tag is “Virtual Assistant gives quick tips on how to optimize your website for Google”. It beats “google ball” or some crazy string of letters and numbers. I have some keywords in there, but it’s not stuffed to the point where the Google Geeks (and I say that lovingly) look at my site and scream SPAM.

2. SEO doesn’t have to be ugly. You know how the first tip of any SEO primer course..Click here to read the rest of this post at the Monday Morning VA Blog.

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