HowTo: On-Page vs Off-Page optimization

**Dragos** · 01-07-2010 01:00 PM

I saw many questions regarding on-page and off-page SEO. Many webmasters don't have a clear difference between them, so here it is:

The point of On-Page SEO is to optimize you website and pages.This includes a good keyword density within your articles, important meta tags, title tags (for links), alt attribute (for images), the usage of heading tags for the important titles (H1, H2 and H3), and the existence of the sitemap, and robots.txt.

After you have done good on-page SEO, you can start doing Off-Page SEO. This means link popularity, for a good keyword optimization. You can get relevant quality backlinks from social bookmarking websites, microblogging platforms, forum posting and signatures, blog comments and web directories.

**james121** · 01-11-2010 05:30 AM

Thanks for this info. You have made all things very clear. I wanna to know some thing more about web directories. What it is and what is importance of it.

**Dragos** · 01-11-2010 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by james121

Thanks for this info. You have made all things very clear. I wanna to know some thing more about web directories. What it is and what is importance of it.

James, web directories are like Yellow Pages. They provide a list with websites, sorted by category. They are good for SEO, if you submit the sites to the right category, and are also good because many users look in web directories for things they need. But you must be careful to choose the best directories. You can read one of my older posts with tips that make a good directory.

**infoquestit** · 01-11-2010 12:40 PM

Hi! Forum Posting and Directory Submission - Which one Best Off Page SEO...?

**Dragos** · 01-11-2010 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by infoquestit

Hi! Forum Posting and Directory Submission - Which one Best Off Page SEO...?

Forum posting on relevant forums/topics is far better than directory submissions, from my point of view.

**Jhonson** · 11-16-2010 12:58 PM

in my openion, forum posting is better than Directory Submission.
it gets more backlinks than Directory Submission.

**Robust** · 11-17-2010 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Jhonson

in my openion, forum posting is better than Directory Submission.
it gets more backlinks than Directory Submission.

Why more? It's just easier to post on forum than submitting to directories

**Ventus** · 11-19-2010 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Dragos

I saw many questions regarding on-page and off-page SEO. Many webmasters don't have a clear difference between them, so here it is:

The point of On-Page SEO is to optimize you website and pages.This includes a good keyword density within your articles, important meta tags, title tags (for links), alt attribute (for images), the usage of heading tags for the important titles (H1, H2 and H3), and the existence of the sitemap, and robots.txt.

After you have done good on-page SEO, you can start doing Off-Page SEO. This means link popularity, for a good keyword optimization. You can get relevant quality backlinks from social bookmarking websites, microblogging platforms, forum posting and signatures, blog comments and web directories.

on-page optimization helps your site to be crawled by search engines faster so that your website will be indexed not only the home page but also the inner pages of your website...

and

off-page optimization also helps but not the same thing as on-page, it's job is to increase your page ranking and also site's visitors...

**IntegratedS** · 11-27-2010 12:55 PM

On-page optimisation (on-page SEO) is what can be done on the pages of a website to maximise its performance in the search engines for target keywords related to the on-page content.
Off-page optimisation (off-page SEO) is what can be done off the pages of a website to maximise its performance in the search engines for target keywords related to the on-page content and keywords in off-page direct-links.