What Is The Single Best Thing You Know About SEO?

[adam123]

A single best thing for SEO is your focus on keywords, selection and focussing on your respected keyword is i think most important

[temyong]

Originally Posted by adam123

A single best thing for SEO is your focus on keywords, selection and focussing on your respected keyword is i think most important

How about link building?

[KeywordRadar.com]

I'd first test keywords in Pay per click and find the most profitable keywords that are converting into sales.

I have some really good keyword tracking software for this because and it does a lot of extra stuff that Google Analytics can't do.

Then, once you find the converting keywords in your PPC campaigns, run your SEO on those keywords.

SEO takes alot of time, so you first want to focus your time on those keywords that you know will convert to buyers.

Hope that helps,

Brian.

[doogers]

You need a website that is going to convert those leads. Currently I am lacking on a good website so that is my next purchase.

[tycoonjo]

quality (PR) link builing.
Yes, PR is still important. It gives you all the information in just one number

[sniperhiga]

Create more deep links.

[robpongi]

Originally Posted by peter_d

What's the most important single piece of information you know that would help people new to SEO?

For on page SEO, first of all, if you don't have one already, it is best to have your ISP install the webalizer program:

http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/

on your site's server. This is a FREE program so your ISP should be able to install it very quickly. If they don't want to, then insist upon it. If they still don't, then move your site to a new ISP that will do this for you. Also have your ISP set the webalizer program to at least show 200+ search strings and 700+ total referrers. This should give you a good amount of very valuable and accurate traffic information about your site.

Also, IMHO, it is in your best interest to register an account at Google Webmaster Central:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

and then verify your site(s) with Google and then install Google XML sitemaps. Also after making any significant changes to your site(s), then you should create news sitemaps, upload them to your site(s) and submit them to Google over and over again. Then soon afterwards you will receive more Google traffic information including keywords and phrases used to find your site(s).

After a month or so, using the Google traffic info and your webalizer info, then you should edit your site's front page and internal pages and include the search phrases and keywords from both Google and your webalizer. After editing your pages and uploading them to your server, you should run another Google sitemap and submit it to your Google webmaster's account once again. And this process of compiling your site(s) traffic data and accordingly editing your site pages meta tags is an ongoing process which will eventually increase your site(s) visibility and traffic overall. Yes, this involves a lot of repetitive work, but if you do this and do it well and consistently, in time you will see very good results.

Also, below is a very good article that I highly recommend:

Google Ranking Factors - SEO Checklist

Good luck to all!

[richrf]

Focus. Narrowcasting is much easier to optimize than broadcasting.

Rich

[zagu060807]

Originally Posted by peter_d

Danny Sullivan summed up an important aspect of link strategy well:



What's the most important single piece of information you know that would help people new to SEO?

Higher SERP ranking can have higher chances to give more traffic. Proper arrangement and management of keywords can have a possibility that their site may get higher SERP. Frequent update and link building adds more traffic.

[Manish Pandey]

Getting "Links" from authority domains...Preferably "Anchor Text Links"...

[KeithCash]

Originally Posted by sniperhiga

Create more deep links.

That about sums up mine also.

and Visit sniperhiga's blog

Cheers

[cooolapts]

Do not waste your time by submitting your site in different search engines. 95% of the search engine traffic comes from Google, Yahoo & MSN. So just focus on these three. Never pay anyone to submit your site in different search engines.

[manjutech]

I am very new to SEO.
I came here to learn something

[skysoldier]

For me patients with a bit of aggressiveness and by working hard! We know it takes time to see some results!

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Mine is:

Understand the Long Tail. Most search phrases are unique, so there is a LOT of traffic to be had from non-competitive phrases. Choose many keywords from your niche, and write a page on each. Watch your logs. If people arrive under a particular keyword term you've missed, add a page to your site using that keyword term. Repeat.

Sure fire way to get a lot of traffic that is largely immune from shifts in ranking.

I like the "immune from shifts in ranking" points very much.

Say I have a great idea for a site, but cannot find any great high volume keywords for it.

Would I still stand a chance to get a lot of traffic through the long tail if I can build a somewhat authoritative site? (say if I can build a site with 1,000 or 2,000 links but would need 10,000 to get a top ranking for one of the "main" keywords).

or would this still be a bad idea, because the competitiveness of the "main keywords" indicates that the long tail is harder to get, too as the field is too competitive in general?

P.S.: Porn Pills & Gambling shall be excluded from this question

[Red80]

Finding a niche website that is accepted. SEO, money, friends, or what ever will follow.

[cabdirazzaq]

One thing:

"It takes time..."

[DallasWebsiteDesign]

Yes you are absolutely right. Even if we use the right techniques there is a probability that search engines might take it in a different way. So we are left with two option patience and persistence.

http://www.plasmainteractive.net/

[bochgoch]

Work hard ... find a niche ... find and angle ... exploit it ... diversify -- easy!

[potchie]

for me,, the most important thing is being rank at the first page of the SE than PR's

SERP's is better than PR