When it comes to improving the search engine rankings of your pages, there is something that you can do before you call in an SEO consultant. It is called on page SEO. On page SEO is the process of optimizing individual web pages on your site to be more relevant to search engines. The changes are done to the source code and the content on the page.

The changes done at source code level involve tags. Meta Tags used to determine what the search engines found on your page. This was before entire pages were spidered and included in search. At this moment in time, the importance to ranking from the Meta Tags are limited but they can still play a part in getting additional traffic. The Meta Description is the description that search engines like Google used to display as the snippet below the title. The same goes for the Meta Title, as it is the first thing users see when your page comes up in a listing. The more interesting and attractive those are, the more clicks you will get. The more clicks you get, the more relevant your page will seem to Google.

Content, on the other hand, is all about relevance. How relevant is your page to the query? You might already be ranking well for the page but improving the relevance of the content could improve that further. You can do this by including more keywords, more relevant keywords within the text. In addition, titles, headings, and subheadings should also be relevant.

Just doing these two simple fixes on as many pages as possible will improve your search engine rankings.