Simple, basic SEO tips for better quality free traffic

I learned 3 huge things about my website www.kaptainmyke.com this week.

#1 Keep titles of pages under 65 characters.

#2 Try to remove these STOP words from the names of sections, names of products: A, am, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, com, de, en, for, from, how, in, is, it, la, of, on, or, that, the , this, to, was, what, when, where, who, will with, you, your, me, mine.  It's hard when the name of a product is "I Love New York".  I try to say "New York Love", for example.  Let the description of your product tell your reader what it's really about.

#3 Try to remove () ' " : ; ? ! ~ @ # $ % & *  from titles of any web page.  Commas are ok, hyphens are ok.



Start with that and you should notice significant SEO traffic.  Google and others penalize sites and pages that contain those characters and words.

My Cafepress, Zazzle, Printfection, and Skreened stores all showed significant jumps in traffic according to my analytics reports for the past 2 weeks.  I should note to you that Cafepress uses their own H1 tag for products, so be sure you don't have your own H1 tag in your shop template, or you will have dual h1 tags on web pages.  

If you own CPShop, this is how you remove those characters from your titles and breadcrumbs: Marty.net message board

I hope this information helps you as it did myself.  As always, if you do major changes to your website, generate a new sitemap.xml file and resubmit changes to google webmaster tools.