Start being seen by Google.

Basic SEO

1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. The title tag is located right at the top of your document within the head tags. Inserting a keyword or key phrase will greatly improve your chances of bringing targeted traffic to your site.

Make sure that the title tag contains text which a human can relate to. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result. Treat it like a headline.

2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.

3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It is unwise to have keywords in the title tag which are not contained within the body of the page.

Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.

Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.

4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search engine robots might determine that all your pages are the same if all your title tags are the same. If this happens, your pages might not get indexed.

I always use the headline of my pages as the title tag to help the robots know exactly what my page is about. A good place to insert the headline is within the h1 tag. So the headline is the same as the title tag text.

5. Do not spam the description or keyword meta tag by stuffing meaningless keywords or even spend too much time on this tag. SEO pros all agree that these tags are not as important today as they once were. I just place my headline once within the keywords and description tags.

6. Do not link to link-farms or other search engine unfriendly neighborhoods.

7. Do not use doorway pages. Doorway pages are designed for robots only, not humans. Search engines like to index human friendly pages which contain content which is relevant to the search.

8. Title tags for text links. Insert the title tag within the HTML of your text link to add weight to the link and the page where the link resides. This is like the alt tag for images.

My site contains navigation menus on the left and right of the page. The menu consists of links not images. When you hover over the link with your mouse, the title of the link appears. View the source of this page to see how to add this tag to your links.

9. Describe your images with the use of the alt tag. This will help search engines that index images to find your pages and will also help readers who use text only web browsers.

10. Submit to the search engines yourself. Do not use a submission service or submission software. Doing so could get your site penalized or even banned.

Here is the submission page for google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Submit only once. There is no need to submit every two weeks. There is no need to submit more than one page. Robots follow links. If your site has a nice link trail, your entire site will get indexed.

My site has a nice human friendly link trail which robots follow easily. All my pages get indexed without ever submitting more than the main index page once.

More SEO Tips

Get the facts here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/. This page will explain most of what you should focus on along with what you should forget about.

If you have been thinking about handing over the task of SEO to someone outside of yourself, you should read some warnings before you part with any money. http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html

Mia Lockhart www.mialockhart.com
Be Inspired, Be Motivated, Be Excited, Be Blissful.

Inspired by Miley

Slowly I'm learning to do my own thing...keep going and enjoy the climb.

How come I love the song "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus right now? It just keeps me going, it inspires me to enjoy the journey and it's the best song to crank on a long hill during my runs.

I'm paddling on and each stroke makes a difference. Going with the current.

Mia Lockhart www.mialockhart.com
Be Inspired, Be Motivated, Be Excited, Be Blissful.

Open Doors and Open Minds

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
- John Hersey

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
- Alfred Edward Perlman

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.
- Karl Marx


If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
- Anonymous

Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
- Gail Sheehy

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"
- Lisa Taylor

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
- Tuli Kupferberg

One must lose one's life in order to find it.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What a great time to embrace change and create change. I feel very ready today.

Mia Lockhart www.mialockhart.com
Be Inspired, Be Motivated, Be Excited, Be Blissful.

I am living but am I truly ALIVE?

"People say that what we are seeking is a meaning of life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive." ~ Joseph Campbell

I feel most alive when I'm full for thankfulness and love. Let me let go of dicouragement, envy or any ego-filled thought. Stay in the state of being ALIVE.


Mia Lockhart www.mialockhart.com
Be Inspired, Be Motivated, Be Excited, Be Blissful.

Designing Blogs...Designing Life

Use your blog to promote yourself or promote your business. Either way, keep it stylish, relevant and current.



Mia Lockhart www.mialockhart.com
Be Inspired, Be Motivated, Be Excited, Be Blissful.

twittering debut

I'm on twitter now!




Mia Lockhart www.mialockhart.com
Be Inspired, Be Motivated, Be Excited, Be Blissful.

You might be surprised how close success is.

Might be just around the corner!

I've made a place for my spinning bike, is it ready for me???

Mia Lockhart www.mialockhart.com
Be Inspired, Be Motivated, Be Excited, Be Blissful.