17 SEO Best Practices For Better Ranking - Search Engine Journal

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There are many best practices for SEO, including those provided by Google.

Here are 17 tips that can help one develop a better search presence.

What Do Best Practices For SEO Even Mean?

Best practices for SEO are generally regarded as those that abide within Google’s evolving guidelines and are not explicitly listed by Google as manipulative.

But best practices are more than just what Google considers manipulative and what is not.

For example, Google’s guidelines don’t tell you how to choose hosting, how to optimize a WordPress site, or whether a website builder makes the most sense for a specific situation.

Those are the kinds of best practices this guide will cover.

1. Choose The Best Platform For Your Situation

A good place to begin is at the point before any code is uploaded to the web.

Understanding the technology that underlies a web presence is important to making the best choice for SEO.

Get this part right, and the site will be well positioned for sprinting toward first place.

Why Choose Self-Hosted

Today’s choices are between a CMS (content management system) hosted on a publisher’s server, and site builder platforms where the technology is hosted and...

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