3 Essential SEO Tips for Your Online Portfolio

SEO helps your website to rank higher on the search engine result page (SERP) so your portfolio shows up on page one or two of the search results for certain keywords. 

Which means that you are more discoverable to potential clients or employers.

Find your keywords

Keywords are words or phrases we search for on Google, Bing, or Yahoo.

Once we hit the enter key, we’re presented with thousands or billions of website pages that contain these keywords.

It will come up on the first few pages of the results. To get there, you have to determine which keywords are relevant to your website.

Now that you have the keywords, where do you put them?

In title (H1)

In the post or page URL

In the first intro paragraph

In the subtitles (H2 and H3), if possible

Use it frequently within the description (but not too much)

Use it frequently within the description (but not too much)

In the image file name and alt tag

In the meta description

Now, fill your portfolio pages or posts with content material. Including Extra Image text. 

You Have an opportunity to add more key phrases - but you don't ad too many otherwise google penalize website that engagingin " keyword Stuffing".

Distribute your portfolio: If you’re not already doing it, make sure to share your portfolio on social media such as LinkedIn, Instagram, or Pinterest.

Sharing links online helps you build backlinks, which improves your website’s performance as well.

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