SEO, Where Do I Begin?

[MalcolmAllister]

Great Man...Excellent post. And moreover excellent Comments.

[Jenie0109]

Originally Posted by Steven1976a

Great Post. Everyone is a new member or new to SEO at sometime in their life so im sure newbies will appreciate the post.

Ive just forwarded the thread to a friend to help him.

13. Fresh Content
No matter how small I always try and put fresh content onto our website. Not just on the home page but throughout the site.
We change the pictures and some text on the home page of our site every 1-2 weeks not only for the search engines but for our customers.
Fresh Content is important I feel at the moment

i agree on this. Content really is a king..

[CoolDiamond]

Thanks! Good points for a beginner like me.

[iambored]

Nice Article incrediblehelp, I think after reading this all knows basic factors of SEO & precautions too

[Roger80]

these are all wonderful information. these would surely help a beginner like me. kudos to all of you!

[furnitureboy]

Very interesting information on SEO, it seems that its a bit of a no pain no gain exercise. How can you measure performance?

I.e. if i'm spending hours trawling the web to get inbound links, articles pointing to my site etc.

How can anyone know what's helping their sites SEO or is it just hit and miss which links that google likes and which are a waste of time.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers, Ady

[chriscash01]

1st thing you have to do is build you SEO backbone.,

Ho to do it....
1. You need to have your own social Bookmarking Accounts
2. Your own article directory accounts
3. Promote your social bookmarking Accounts to Rss feed sites, blogs, and articles
4. Promote your article directory accounts.
5. Promote your rss feeds accounts
6. If you can write blogs and articles that point to your social bookmarking account , article directory account, and rss feed account then much better.

What is the purpose of this is to make all your account authority sites/pages. Imagine having all this social bookmarking accounts, rss feed accounts , articles directory account with high popularity all pointing to your sites. REmember google and other search engine give more point to sites having backlink from authority sites

[ronaldo1]

Very good and informative post

Thanks

[thefandango]

Very interesting thread. The key is building links that contain keyword anchor text, that land on keyword targeted pages.

[jayparker90]

I have been working in this industry from the past 2 and a half years and i have been seeing a lot of helpful tips like this but to be honest this is going to be very useful to me
in my future
i will know from where to start now

[kateperry]

Thanks for a great post!

This is what I love about this forum - industry experts are so will to help.

Thanks again

[jayparker90]

Oh my, i must say after reading your post any new comer would want to take up a
job just like a experienced person since you have trained so well
i really appreciate that work

[jayparker90]

i think all the information is available whatever is necessary for a newbie in SEO
to know about the rules and tricks in here
Thanks for that wonderful information dude

[jayguy]

This is a good commonsense post that will get you on the right track. Sure there are lots of SEO companies out there, but with time, effort and viewing forums like this you can start to craft a well ranked site.

[mpossoff]

Originally Posted by alegriadj

This is for the ultimate newbie. Make a copy of your website and work on the copy. I know it's a serious no-brainer but sometimes I forget and find my self going back one generation because I tweaked something too much and it broke.

Can you elaborate on this a bit? Note that I'm working with a designer who is created my site.

Take Care,

Marc

[gazza777]

SEO is not as complicated as some people will have you believe. The key is to read, read, read and read some more! There is sooooo much info out there. Make use of online SEO tools. The usually point to what your site lacks or needs correcting.

[kateperry]

I completely aggree with Gazza777 - Read as much as you can and you'll get there eventually!

Thanks,

Katie
<in your signature only please>

[emps]

Originally Posted by kateperry

I completely aggree with Gazza777 - Read as much as you can and you'll get there eventually!

Thanks,

Katie
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All points are covered in this thread, may i add it is essential to keep up to date with Google webmaster website guidelines information, follow Matt Cutts blog,interviews (on various sites inc WPN). This latter advice does provoke lots of controversey,but we do learn heaps from it.
Remember for PR Google ranks pages not websites..

[hasmat]

I wanna clear about duplication.

If i wanna write something i must use the source from internet. In some cases i have to post some sentences just like copy paste. But most of the lines my own.

My question is here, is there any strict rule when bots recognize a page is duplicate?

[Doc]

Originally Posted by buyacai

Hi,

Thanks for your question. I give you some tips where to start the seo. First of all, you have to find our the keywords. How can find our the key words? Choose one own keyword for your site and put the key word in google search. You will get the no of sites. Take the first one from the result, put the site into keyword researcher tool, You will get lot of keywords from there, Collect the keywords and use them in your site as content.

Buy Acai

buyacai-

I'd have to say that is totally worthless advice, unless your site happens to be a carbon copy of the the other. Keywords that are listed, that don't appear in your text not only won't do you any good...they'll screw you!

[Doc]

Originally Posted by hasmat

Can anyone answer my question i have previously posted?
I wanna clear about that.

hasmat-

If I understand your question properly...you're asking if there is a strict rule about the SE recognizing a copy of another page.

First, "strict rule" is a bit of a stretch, as many rules seem to be a little cloudy, and changes to the algorithm can change things overnight. However, as I understand it, the SEs can and will detect copied text from other pages, outside the site (I'm really not certain how copied text between two pages of the same site might apply here). They can, and do penalize that. There is another thread here that addresses this, and ways to protect yourself. I'll find it and come back and post it here so you can read through it.

EDIT: Okay, I ran a search for that thread, and couldn't find it. Perhaps someone else here will recall where it was discussed, or can better answer hasmat's question.

[Tubby]

hasmat asks
'My question is here, is there any strict rule when bots recognize a page is duplicate?'

Google has demonstrated a history of regularly recognising only one of the pages in the case of two identical pages

[slowseaa]

Not just on the home page but throughout the site.
We change the pictures and some text on the home page of our site every 1-2 weeks not only for the search engines but for our customers.
Fresh Content is important I feel at the moment

[DirkW]

I know there's been a bunch of thank-yous on here, but I'll add one more.

I've just joined WPW to ask how to get started and seems like this topic is the place for me. Feeling a little overwhelmed, but we'll get there.

regards,

Dirk

[Jene]

Must be a very helpful resource either you're an expert SEO consultant or a newbie. Website doesn't allow posting urls so may be you got to manually type BnBuzz.com in your browser. I found it a good resource for over all understanding the SEO Process, search engine optimization techniques and helpful resources.

[Shady]

Good Thread. Well now with Web 2.0, I think SEO is evolving but a lot of the general theme and concept is the same.

On Page
- Meta Tags (Title, Description)
- URL
- Content (H1 Tags, Bold, Internal Link)

Off Page
- Quality Back links
- Article writing
- Directories

Web 2.0
- Blog, Forum, Social Network

[treker]

Besides content, IMO google values more off page factors.

[genewell]

WOW, Great Post. I would add this though. Do your keyword research! I just took over a large account where my client was paying $1500 / month for the last year in a highly competitive industry. His site was nowhere because the idiot SEO company was optimizing for terms that were so competitive it would have been impossible to rank for. His site is still a PR 0 and they were chasing PR5 sites! Understand your keywords that you want to rank for before you jump into SEO. You should have a keyword set researched for relevance, search volume and competition (each keyword). If you don't have site parity (page rank) for a given keyword, dump it and find keywords that you can win with. New sites don't get to play with the big boys until they've gone through this process.

Check your keyword search volume requirements with the calculator on this page: SEO Dayton

[Harmain]

Hi
Thanks for best unique info and golden tips, These info are equaly useful for seo beginners and learning community. really unique............thanks again

[stevekolbe]

As you can probably tell from the links below, my website ends in a .net. Is there any penalty assigned for being a .net from an SEO standpoint as opposed to a .com?

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IT Consulting, Network Support, Cloud Computing Services
Online Store with over 950,000 IT and computer related items

[Doc]

Originally Posted by stevekolbe

As you can probably tell from the links below, my website ends in a .net. Is there any penalty assigned for being a .net from an SEO standpoint as opposed to a .com?

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IT Consulting, Network Support, Cloud Computing Services
Online Store with over 950,000 IT and computer related items

From what I have read, no. The search engines see .com and .net the same, in terms of indexing and placement. They are just different top level domains. .com was originally intended to indicate commercial, whereas .net could be essentially anything. I think that has pretty much fallen by the wayside, though.

[sharadjha]

You want something change then send me a private message.

Cheers!
Shaard Jha

[bjc007]

Is content more NB than backlinks

[sharadjha]

Some important tips for start SEO begin :

On-Page SEO Checklist---
Always start with keyword selection, research and testing
Title tags
Meta tags
ALT tags
H1 tags
URL structure
Internal Linking
Content
Keyword density
Site maps
Usability
Track target keywords
Expect results in 12 months


Off-Page SEO Checklist --
Always start with keyword research, testing and selection
Keywords in links
Links from high ranking publisher sites
One-way inbound links (not link exchange)
Different keywords in your link-ads from the same site
Gradual link building technology (no growth spikes)
Relevant keywords near your inbound link
Deep linking (from multiple pages to multiple pages)
Target a large list of keywords (5-500+)
Link from sites with a variety of LinkRanks
Track active link-ad keywords
Discontinue campaigns if ranking does not improve

[Doc]

Originally Posted by sharadjha

Some important tips for start SEO begin :

On-Page SEO Checklist---
Always start with keyword selection, research and testing
Title tags
Meta tags
ALT tags
H1 tags
URL structure
Internal Linking
Content
Keyword density
Site maps
Usability
Track target keywords
Expect results in 12 months


Off-Page SEO Checklist --
Always start with keyword research, testing and selection
Keywords in links
Links from high ranking publisher sites
One-way inbound links (not link exchange)
Different keywords in your link-ads from the same site
Gradual link building technology (no growth spikes)
Relevant keywords near your inbound link
Deep linking (from multiple pages to multiple pages)
Target a large list of keywords (5-500+)
Link from sites with a variety of LinkRanks
Track active link-ad keywords
Discontinue campaigns if ranking does not improve

I can go along with most of that, but the two I have bolded, SITEMAPS and 5-500 keywords, I'd have to question. I still feel that if your site navigation is valid, there is no reason to have a sitemap. A sitemap is just a workaround of something that really needs to be fixed, instead. And 500 keywords? That sounds just a bit exaggerated to me.
Also, you say DISCONTINUE CAMPAIGNS IF RANKING DOES NOT IMPROVE... when would you discontinue? And why? Because the site content is of no interest to anyone? Because the steps taken were incorrect, or inadequate?

All in all, though, a decent checklist.

[mjtaylor]

Originally Posted by romailtariq

Man you are awesome i have followed your advices and iam now a professioanl seo.

That's pretty scary. I've heard this before from webmasters. It goes like this: I read this great article on SEO and now I can add that to the list of services I offer my clients.

I've been doing this for more than 10 years, and I know less and less as search engines become more and more sophisticated.