What Is The Single Best Thing You Know About SEO?

[Sandpetra]

Ignore Yahoo

[tdd1984]

Originally Posted by John Scott

I usually don't pay attention to spelling mistakes - after all this is just a forum and not a doctoral thesis - but in this context it's hilarious.

LOL yea sorry my grammar is not the greatest, specially when i get tired.

Authority sounds better.

[mauiman]

Originally Posted by John Scott

I usually don't pay attention to spelling mistakes - after all this is just a forum and not a doctoral thesis - but in this context it's hilarious.

glad I wasn't the only one raising my eyebrows over that one.

[mauiman]

Originally Posted by tdd1984

LOL yea sorry my grammar is not the greatest, specially when i get tired.

Authority sounds better.

I checked out your $10 per post program and it looks like a great program you're running there. Not applicable to me, but I'd encourage anyone with a blog (PR3+) to check em out.

Regards

David

[khaty]

hard work, patience, determination and understanding seo are all important..
honestly i learned about seo only for 2 days and its really hard to force myself to do this and look for appropriate keywords and all this stuff about on page factors and off page factors.. but its great learning is fun.

[SkGold]

Originally Posted by Natural Elements

What is the best thing you can recommend us at a reasonnable budget? because if you spend more money in SEO then what you can make, there is only SEO for the big guys, as usual the little guys like me will be out of business.

1. Frequently updated (daily the best) useful unique content.
2. Contextual anchor text links.
Start by changing the link in your signature.

[Natural Elements]

Originally Posted by SkGold

1. Frequently updated (daily the best) useful unique content.
2. Contextual anchor text links.
Start by changing the link in your signature.

What do you mean by changing the link in my signature?

[Sandpetra]

I think the poster means do not use a web address... use some anchor text and a keyword phrase instead. This can help you rank a wee bit better in the search engines.....

[SkGold]

Originally Posted by Natural Elements

What do you mean by changing the link in my signature?

Yes, Sandpetra is right. Anytime you link to your site try to use your keywords instead of URL.

[Natural Elements]

Well that's a news for me, I was thinking a signature link did not represent a value for searche engines, just to drive visitors to your site.

Ok I will thy that, thanks guys

[mauiman]

Originally Posted by SkGold

1. Frequently updated (daily the best) useful unique content.
2. Contextual anchor text links.
Start by changing the link in your signature.

And the winner is Sergey!
"1. Frequently updated (daily the best) useful unique content."

Keyword being USEFUL. That seems to be the key to long term SEO bliss.

[zokiii]

Links are the most important thing in SEO .

And if you put your site in good neighbourhood you can reach every rankings.

Neighbourhood is pretty important thing today
(you can check this via this query on google -> related:yoursite.com ).

[Bjorn Solstad]

1. Use a link building scheme, but do it wisely. The most important factor is to build links slow enough. That again requires patience.

Inbound links is by far the most important factor in your seo strategy. John's tips about getting unrelated links pointing to the domain itself is also an important factor. You need MANY links pointing to the domain, but not necessarily containing targeted keywords.

To Natural Elements: We are working on getting a site at Biogime Skin Care to rank with similar products as the ones you sell. It looks to me that it is not that hard to get good rankings for beauty related products.

My advice is therefore: Hang in there - continue to learn and experiment. Eventually you'll get there.

[Natural Elements]

Originally Posted by Bjorn Solstad

1. Use a link building scheme, but do it wisely. The most important factor is to build links slow enough. That again requires patience.

Inbound links is by far the most important factor in your seo strategy. John's tips about getting unrelated links pointing to the domain itself is also an important factor. You need MANY links pointing to the domain, but not necessarily containing targeted keywords.

To Natural Elements: We are working on getting a site at Biogime Skin Care to rank with similar products as the ones you sell. It looks to me that it is not that hard to get good rankings for beauty related products.

My advice is therefore: Hang in there - continue to learn and experiment. Eventually you'll get there.

That is not that hard to get good ranking depends on the keywords targeted.

This industry is a huge market even with the Hawaiian skin care products.

I think the John's strategy is pretty good with a my own recepie.

The thing is you need to ajust the site when there are big algo changes, with a little luck and a lot of test and work, it could be done.

I always learn on this forum, but you must read a lot on different sources to get a general idea of what you may to do best for your site.

Thanks for your advices, good luck with your site Biogime.

I have a friend :-) who sent me this
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (churchill)

[sim64]

A website is made up of 100's (1000,s) of individual pages.
If one page is receiving over 20% of all hits you are doing something wrong.
(unless in a niche market)

[nhebb]

Originally Posted by Sandpetra

Ignore Yahoo

As expected, I get a lot more traffic from Google than Yahoo, but the Yahoo visitors convert much better. So make sure you look at your conversion data before dismissing Yahoo or MSN/Live off hand.

[IndigoBlack]

Originally Posted by peter_d

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.

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/faq/index.html

I think this advice coupled with the advice in this article pretty much sums up my recommendations.

[webprofessor]

The single most important thing is:

worrying about regular marketing and usability is more important than worrying about seo.

[MadKad]

SEO to me,

I have lots of rules but I think this one is the best

Save Each One

to my self