Search Engine Optimization 2.0 – What I’ve Discovered
April 8, 2010 by Jason DeMars
Filed under Basic SEO Tips
I’m going to do something insane and tell the truth about my experience with SEO. I know only a very small amount about it, especially the technical terms and what exactly makes it work. I do know the rudiments and I’ve been able to get decent search engine traffic prior to learning several things of late.
Here are the basics that I knew prior to watching SEO Demystified by Ferny Ceballos and Raymond Fong and taking the Social Media Science course by Charles Heflin.
1. Blogs are the easiest way to get search engine traffic because you are constantly updating it and the search engines love fresh dynamic content.
2. Self-hosted wordpress is the most appropriate blog format to use as in my tests it got more search engine traffic more easily than blogger. The plugins you can use like All-in-one SEO helps you set up the title, description and keywords properly on each page and post and XML Sitemaps, DDSitemap Gen helps your site to get listed and updated on the search engines.
3. You need to write content rich articles consistently that target your audience.
4. You need to write articles on article directories with bank-links to your site and anchor text that has the keywords that you are targeting with your site.
5. Social media sites contribute to your search engine ranking though I did not understand which type or even the best way to do this.
I had little very little knowledge of the details. After watching SEO Demystified and taking the Social Media Science courses my eyes were opened to the following.
1. Set up categories on your blog with keywords that you wish to target your audience. The categories allow you to sort your articles in what they call a silo.
2. Ensure that your site is social media ready with the ShareThis wp plugin so that when people read and enjoy your blog they can share it. When they share your blog on these social media sites it gives you a vote and an incoming link on the search engines.
3. Make sure that your title and descriptions within your All-in-One SEO plugin contains keywords relevant to your article and that also target your audience.
4. Don’t use social media like del.icio.us, reddit, digg, etc. to bookmark your own page as this will at some point lead to your site getting slapped by the search engines.
5. Become a part of Content Syndication Network that allows for others to do your social media promotion for you. Basically you do their promotion and in turn they do your promotion.
Based upon applying these principles in one week I have been able to put my Magnetic Sponsoring Review site to rank number 14 on Google. So number 4 on page 2. I’m excited about this and as I continue to learn from Ferny and Ray as well as participating in my CSN I know that this will rise.
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