I increased my search engine traffic by 258% in less than a month

[smub]

It might seems like a bragging post, but actually it is a post simply to highlight that the simplest features that we overlook can get us a lot of traffic through search engine.

Well, last month I changed my blog design which improved site's load time. But along with that it refined the use of h2, and h3 tags. As well as it improved the navigation on the blog such as breadcrumb.

Next change I did was renamed my design images from default index_01 to an appropriate name. Like logo.gif .. contentbg.gif and so on.

I also started using more images in the post, and giving them related names as well as alt tags.

A lot of my images didn't have alt tags filled in before as I used to just keep them to satisfy the w3 markup. But by doing this my search engine traffic went off the roof.


If you need to see the stats and tricks in detail check out my recent case study post.

 

[thebutler]

h2 tags

How did you refine your h2 tags? Did you include in the body of your content?

 

[smub]

well, before I wasn't using h2 tags within my post. So on my home page.. each category title is a h2 and then the post title is h3..

Then on my blog page each post title is h2 and sub titles inside are either h2 or h3 ...

 

[Keral_Patel]

Thanks smub for sharing your ideas and tips here

 

[angilina]

I thought H tags aren't much important when it comes to ranking good in SEs, I guess now I have to include them in my site. Thanks for sharing this information.

 

[smub]

I thought H tags aren't much important when it comes to ranking good in SEs, I guess now I have to include them in my site. Thanks for sharing this information.

Hmm which expert advised that? All the books I have read .. h2 tags are very important in the site...

 

[ameRie]

h tags are very much important.

smub, thanks for these tips.

 

[~ServerPoint~]

Thatnks for your secrets. Hope that will be useful for my niche as well.

 

[johdue]

Good result back from redising and update blog. Every site or blog need updation so keep it continue.

 

[Li Weng]

That's very impressive. I guess it all comes down to making it easy for the visitor.

 

[smub]

Yes make your websites for the users and SE will follow