I desperately want to get in to SEO but i am just overwhelmed by all the blogs/books/tools/information. If i may ask a question?! What tools could you not do without?? Thanks. I am talking legit long term stuff here please. Where is my money best spent and how should i get some practice??
SEO - Where to start??
- Thread starter greyhat
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Most of what I use is free. Google analytics, Google keyword search tool, yahoo backlinks checker. I use web 2.0 sites to write content. Check out this site for techniques on how to generate traffic.
good resource... thnx!! I think i am starting to see the bigger picyure now. I started off with a few keyword domains and all went smoothly with good results so i think my next exercise is getting used to the tools and link building. I have found that good site design goes a long way aswell...
Just spend your time looking at the competitive serps and reverse engineering what they do.
If you must have tools, anything comercial is just a used up whore ... so learn to hack! $10k worth of tools is worth less than 5 minutes of your brain working.
If you must have tools, anything comercial is just a used up whore ... so learn to hack! $10k worth of tools is worth less than 5 minutes of your brain working.
1) Make sure you have your basic on-site SEO done.
2) Make sure you are in all the basic directories. (dmoz, yahoo, etc)
3) Make sure you're linked from all the relevant industry blogs / forums
4) Make sure you have all your web 2.0 and social media profiles setup with links
5) Make sure you send out a couple press releases and articles to the various article directories
6) Go out and find some unique untapped resources for links and use new link bait tactics
7) Tweak on-site SEO
8) Repeat 3 thru 7
Congrats! You're an SEO!
Here we go. This is the website that saved me lot of time and money -> Free SEO Tools & Search Engine Optimization Software
Damn. I just found out my site is based in the US, went with a well known .co.uk host and the servers are in the US!! is there anything i can do to rank my US .com in the UK without switching hosts? What if i host the .co.uk domain in the uk and point it to my site?
Is that a good idea?
I think your focusing a little too much on meta tags. Your first two goals should be to get content and relevant back links.
This is probably the best advice you've gotten in this thread so far...Which I will elaborate on a little bit.
On site SEO:
Permalinks - make sure your links come out like -> website.com/this-is-my-permalink
and not like -> website.com/post/2342
Also do a sitemap and it doesn't hurt to have a privacy policy / terms and conditions as google seems to enjoy those.
H1, etc. tags - anything with an h1 tag should have good keywords in it, use for post titles, page names, etc.
For social bookmarks check out onlywire or ping.fm - then you can autopost each page / post of your site to a whole bunch of sb sites at once. Pretty helpful. Kind of tedious to set up 30 accounts but if you're not making money do it yourself..or pay someone in BST, it usually costs like 8 bucks.
I like to check Page rank of blogs and such before trying to comment for links and go with the high pr ones, especially in the initial link building phase. These are nice and easy links that you can get quickly. Also try to be active on high PR forums in your niche, you should at the very least be able to get a link in the profile if not in your sig. And finally, bang out some UNIQUE articles, and rewrite and submit to a bunch of articles directories...i try to do at least a couple articles a week cause the directories are usually high pr, thus good for link/ link juice, and they also usually send some visitors your way naturally.
Sorry thats kind of a mess but hopefully it helps. Number one newb rule is to just start doing some shit, reading and dreaming are not productive so just start grindin.