What is the difference between on-site and off-site SEO? This is the question asked on a Cre8asite Forums thread.

While this is a somewhat beginner topic, it's a good question and helpful to review.

On-site SEO, as many say, are focusing on the on-page elements. For example:

• Unique title tags
• H1s/headlines
• Copywriting
• Adding descriptions to images
• Crawlable links
• Internal navigation

And off-site SEO, focuses on things beyond your website, such as:

• Press releases
• Link building
• Advertising
• Social media

Ammon Johns has a pretty good summary of how they should be distinguished:

It is important to remember that off-page factors begin while still on the same site, such as the navigational links to the optimised page, the link-text used in the site, and even the URL (which reflects site structure).

Thus, off-site factors and on-site factors are separate but somewhat tied to each other.

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