15 Steps to Success  - Meta tags Search Engine Optimisation Step 4

Step 4

Search engines prefer small webpages. Try to limit the page under 20K, under 10K is even better. We even presume that you pay less for Google Adwords if the landingpage has a low loading time. Use the possibilities of e.g. Photoshop to leave out certain colours in logo's or photo's. Delete HTML code in your webpage that has no meaning and avoid moving images when you enter the website.

User our Free Website Analyzer to test the loading time of your page and make improvements. Use the checklist to make the right changes right away:

1. Make fewer HTTP requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
3. Add Expires headers
4. Compress components with gzip
5. Put CSS at top
6. Put JavaScript at bottom
7. Avoid CSS expressions
8. /AMake JavaScript and CSS external
9. Reduce DNS lookups
10. Avoid URL redirects
11. Make AJAX cacheable
12. Avoid HTTP 404 (Not Found) error
13. Do not scale images in HTML
14. Make favicon small and cacheable

Learn from a website like Google. Their first page will load within 0.1 seconds. That is fast! The first page of this website with a lot of text and images will load within 0.2 seconds. Still very fast and that is what your goal should be.

Remember our example of the search engine Google, clean and simple, it's just 9k...

Meta tags Summary - Important SEO things to remember

1. Read why meta tags are important and how they affect the search engines.
2. Use our meta tags generator to create the correct meta tags.
3. Use our website analyzer to get professional advice from the meta tags experts.
4. Submit your website to the search engines and choose one of our packages: