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		<title>On Page SEO &#8211; Creating an Optimized Page</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said in previous posts, each page within your site should focus on a narrow sub-set of keywords, with one keyword being dominant. For example, let&#8217;s say you are creating a site about &#8220;golden retriever puppies&#8221;. The primary keyword for the home page is &#8220;golden retriever puppies&#8221;.
One of your secondary pages might be about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I&#8217;ve said in previous posts, each page within your site should focus on a narrow sub-set of keywords, with one keyword being dominant. For example, let&#8217;s say you are creating a site about &#8220;golden retriever puppies&#8221;. The primary keyword for the home page is &#8220;golden retriever puppies&#8221;.</p>
<p>One of your secondary pages might be about &#8220;buying a golden retriever puppy&#8221;. So &#8220;buying a golden retriever puppy&#8221; should be your primary keyword for that specific page. Your page should also contain other closely related keywords such as &#8220;golden retriever puppy features&#8221;, &#8220;good golden retriever puppies&#8221;, &#8220;golden retriever puppy pricing&#8221;, and so on.</p>
<p>Here are some of the key elements that each of these secondary pages should contain:</p>
<p>1. Your primary keyword (&#8221;buying a golden retriever puppy&#8221;) should appear in the &#8220;title&#8221; tag &#8211; the text that shows up in the blue title bar of the page.</p>
<p>2. Your page should begin with a &lt;h1&gt; heading tag which contains your primary keyword. For example, you title might be &#8220;Buying a Golden Retriever Puppy &#8211; Some Tips&#8221;</p>
<p>3. Your introductory paragraph should contain your primary keyword, and probably one or two instances of other closely related keywords.</p>
<p>4. The rest of your page should focus on related keywords with those keywords emphasized in the text and in sub-headings (using the h2, h3, or h4 tags.)</p>
<p>5. Most &#8220;experts&#8221; say your closing paragraph should also contain a few instances of your primary keyword.</p>
<p>6. Your page should contain a navigation menu with anchor text using the primary keywords for each page pointing to all the other important pages within your site.</p>
<p>7. You may also want to include a &#8220;resources&#8221; section which links out to other important resources &#8211; including other closely related resources you have created &#8211; such as articles, videos, products, squidoo pages, blogs, and other websites.</p>
<p>Start thinking of your pages from the optimization point of view, and they will begin to do much better in the search engine rankings.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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