Beginner’s Guide to On-Page SEO 2025

What is On-Page SEO?

On-Page SEO is a type of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which plays a very important role in the website ranking. Without this type of SEO you will never rank your web page or website. There is no such a rocket science in performing On-Page SEO you just need a beginner guide in which you can easily learn it.

In this blog I will guide you every single detail and information about it, clear your doubts. You can see the results in some time. Google wants trustworthy content which complete the user intent. So, make sure your main focus on writing the engaging content. Before reading this article you must need to know how to do keyword research and then read this.

Step by step guide to perform On-Page SEO

1. Optimize Title
2. SEO friendly URL
3. Include headings
4. Add meta description
5. Keyword Placement
6. Image Optimization
7. Internal and External Linking

1. Optimize the Title

Before start writing the content make sure to check your title once again because it is the first part which a user see and decide to click on it or leave it. Most of the people see their web page is getting more impressions but not getting clicks because of the title. They didn't optimize their titles. For this you need focus on some points like.

Make sure your title is short and to the point you don't need to add every keyword in your title. Use just the main focus keyword on which you want to rank the content. Add some questions in the title like Who, why, how etc. It increases the chances of more clicks. Include some numbers in it like top 5 , best 6 etc. This type of titles get more clicks as compared to other titles.

2. SEO friendly URL

Mostly people don't focus on the URL of the web page and ignores it. But do you know it plays a very key role in ranking. User see your URL in Google search result and if you don't optimize it, they will ignore your post just like you ignore the URL.

For this you just need to add your focus keyword in URL, make sure there is no need to add number in URL, also all the characters are small and separated with hyphens. For example your blog post is "Top 5 Best Magician in the world". Your URL for this post will be "https://www.domain-name.com/best-magician-in-the-world"

3. Include headings

Headings play a very key role in the content it is not just for the SEO but also help user to understand your content easily. You need to add some related content in the headings which is basically the structure of your content it includes.

• Heading 1 (Main Title)
• Heading 2
• Heading 3
• Heading 4
• Heading 5
• Heading 6

In Heading 2 you can also add your main focus keyword or related to it . Because when Google crawl your content it see the fist paragraph, Title and heading 2. Which give an idea what this content is about. 

4. Add meta description

Whenever we use the word content there is also a meta description, it gives a short review about the content. For the users it just a review but for developer it is an On-Page SEO factor. You need to add a short SEO meta description and just simply add your main focus keyword in it.

Many people say there is no need to add focus keyword in SEO meta description. But you need to add it, it makes your chances to get more clicks from the Google. So ignoring it also a big issue for your search engine optimization.

5. Keyword Placement

Nowadays many people still use the old strategies to use the main keyword in every place of the content. At that time Google will not take action on it but now it is strictly not allowed. This not just affecting the SEO but also user experience, and now Google first priority is to provide original and High quality content to the users.

Simply place the main keywords in Title, URL, Meta description and the first paragraph of the content. When the crawler read the first para of the content they understand what this content is about. On the basis which your web page get ranked in the Google.

6. Image Optimization

Optimizing your images is also important if you want to get traffic from the images. Because mostly users also ignore this but did you experience this. You search a query in the Google open the picture section , you love a picture and click on it to open their website. Now what happened here they optimize their images, so you redirect to their website through image.

If your blog post don't rank properly in the Google first page may be your images will easily rank. For this you need to add a proper title in the image and ALT text which help your images to rank in the Google.

7. Internal and External Linking

Now internal linking means you can add a link of some of other post of web pages within one of your post. Which gives also ranking to that page and traffic. To do this you just simply find the keyword on which you want to add redirect and add link in it.

External linking is also same as it is , just for this you need to add some other website link to your web pages. Means you are writing an article on gaming, and want to add some of the official game links to your page then you will add it.

Conclusion

Make sure to follow all the updates and wait for the result because it can take some time in the rankings and results. Also you can update your old content with these steps to make them better because updating your old content or regular basis is the best option.

Remember that SEO is not depends only on one factor it includes so many factors like the website speed, backlinks and authority so be patient and work consistently on your website.