Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Introduction

So you've built a website for your brand new online business and you want to optimize it for search algorithms like Google, Bing and many others.

There are many things that you can do in order to allow for search engine's like Google's algorithms to not only index your webpage, but display

it at the top of the list of results when people are searching for products like yours. Google is by far the largest entity in this realm, so some

optimaztion tools and techniques are not only catered towards them, they are developed and provided by them for users!

Here is a list of some techniques and resources that you may find helpful:

• Generate an XML sitemap to provide structured info to search engines
  
  
• Use Chrome Developer Tools to evaluate your source code and webpage inside the Chrome Browser
  
  
• Use Open Graph meta tage in the header in order to display a neat image or video preview in a social media link
  
  
• Use a link tag in the header to make the https:// version of your homepage the "canonical" version for Google's algorithm