Companies and individuals pay a lot of money to tweak their site for the top search queries. There are SEO jobs, link building, niche marketing, directory submissions and many other ways to take the money out of your pocket. With this guide you can learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by yourself and you don’t have to pay for the thing that isn’t in your hands.
Getting started with SEO
When people need to find something, they simply google the item and they click on the top results. By SEO opting your site, you can get the top places and get the most out of organic (FREE) traffic.
What are the search rankings?
Search rankings are the calculated value to a site/ domain. Different search engines do this job differently. Google -the powerful of them all, gives more importance to a site which has more incoming backlinks. Alexa does it by calculating the traffic, global reach for the site.
Tweaking your site for SEO
No one knows how search engines rank each site. If they tell us, we can then game the engine to get higher search places. By observing the search results, webmasters and SE specialists try to guess about how a site has being ranked. You can opt your site which can result in more exposure,
SE Optimization tips for advanced webmasters
There are more ways to get higher search rankings; you just need to know how search engines work, how a site gets ranked and have to observe your efforts,
Avoid black hat SEO techniques
And yes, there are ways to get ranked using evil techniques. My recommendation is to avoid them because it hurts your search presence,
SEO is worthless if…
SEO is not a magic trick, it’s just an optimization. You have to add quality content to your site and this is how you’ll get better ranks. A site must be updated and pinged regularly. Connect with other webmasters of your niche and ask for link backs. The more incoming links you get, the more you’ll get higher search positions.
Google is everything?
Search optimization means opting for google. If anyone writes a book about SEO, 9/10 pages will mention about google. Google is the search king because they are efficient in page indexing and they have world class ranking technology.
I still have some questions..
Then let me know by leaving a comment. If you’re into SEO, then please do share some of your own tips here. What else you want to read about Search Optimizations and did I miss anything?
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A fantastic read….very literate and informative. Many thanks….what theme is this you are using and also, where is your RSS button ?
i m using default wordpress theme. Thanks for remind regarding RSS button. will put on later.
Agree with a lot of the mentioned topics covered here, specially interested on your points regarding SEO
Interesting! Always looking for useful SEO tips.
SEo rich artciel to read.