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title: SEO For lesterchan.net
date: 2009-11-03 12:23:29
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2009/11/03/seo-for-lesterchan-net/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Site
tags:
  - lesterchan.net
  - SEO
---

I am not a guru when it comes to SEO, what I know about SEO is from what I heard from my friends and forums. I also do not believe in paying thousand over dollars just to get a good SEO because most of the tools are free!

Just would like to share the stuff I did on this website to improve it’s SEO:

- Age of domain does matter, I bought lesterchan.net way back in 24th January 2004 which makes this domain close to 6 years old.
- I am using [Google XML Sitemaps](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/) to send sitemaps to various search engine.
- Post title always appear first in the browser title bar before the domain name or website name, eg “Site Traffic October 2009 « Blog | lesterchan.net”.
- I allow bots to crawl my whole website using <meta name=”robots” content=”all” />
- From a user perspective, I always think what search term might the user Google for and I use that as the post title. eg “Windows 7 Pricing in Singapore” or “SingTel iPhone 3GS Price Plans”. All these post has become my [most viewed posts](https://lesterchan.net/site/statistics/).
- Produce content that users really want in order to get them to link back to you. Example, my highest viewed page is my [WordPress Plugins Page](https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/).
- Register your website with [Google Webmasters Tools](http://www.google.com/webmasters/).

Tools used to track my website:

- [Webalizer](http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/)
- [Google Analytics](https://www.google.com/analytics/)
- [WordPress.com Stats](https://http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/)
- [Extreme Tracking](http://extremetracking.com/) (Depreciated)

Feel free to add in more SEO tips in the comments.