On-Page SEO
On-page SEO is the work you do inside the page itself, from the title to the text on your photos, so readers and search engines both understand it.
Also known as on-site SEO page optimisation content SEO
Definition
On-page SEO is everything on a page that you write yourself, arranged so a reader and a search engine both understand it. That makes it the opposite of the work you cannot control, like who decides to link to you. Because all of it sits inside your own website, it is the cheapest part of search to improve, starting with the title.
The title is the blue line a person reads in the search results, so it is the strongest signal you own. Write the words a customer would type, and keep it under about sixty characters so nothing gets cut off. Make it different on every page. Below the title sits the description, and although it does not change your position, it decides whether anyone clicks, which comes to the same thing.
Inside the page, the main heading should say plainly what you offer, and smaller headings break the text into parts a reader can scan. Keep them in order, and never use one just to make words bigger. Every photo also needs a short line describing it, because a screen reader speaks it aloud and search engines read it as text. The easiest way is to describe the picture as you would to someone on the phone.
The rule that saves the most work is one page, one subject. A page selling dental cleaning and dental implants at once ranks for neither, because nothing on it answers either search completely. So split it in two, and both halves usually climb. The same mistake sits behind most thin websites, where five services are crammed onto one page because the brochure looked that way.
Write for the person first, and read the page aloud when you think it is done. Any sentence that exists only to hold a phrase you want to rank for sounds wrong, and Google has been pushing that writing down for years. Answer the questions a reader asks next instead. Those are usually the price, how long the work takes, and what happens if they change their mind.
One thing owners rarely check is the address of the page itself. A short address made of words beats a string of numbers, and it should stay the same once other sites link to it. That is why Linkysoft settles those addresses at the start of a website design and development project. The rest is ordinary work that never finishes, so Linkysoft runs it inside digital marketing as a monthly habit, not a one-off job.
Questions about On-Page SEO
How long should a page title be?
Does the meta description change my ranking?
How many times should my keyword appear on the page?
What is alt text and do I really need it?
Can one page rank for two different subjects?
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