SEO Information You Need to Know

Started by Beaker, 09-21-2012, 12:41:33

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As an internet marketer you need to have at least a basic understanding of search engine optimization. Search engine optimization (SEO) has proven to be one of the best tools that internet marketers can utilize to bring their site up in the search engines. The higher your websites rank in search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo, the more traffic will visit your websites. The thing is, SEO is not as easy as it looks. Those people who just jump in without proper education will have a hard time with it. These are a few things that you can keep in mind when using SEO.

The best thing to do is use keyword phrases, rather than individual keywords. There is a possibility that you will over saturate your own content with a single word if you only concentrate on that one word. Typically not approved of by the search engine spiders, over-saturation is more difficult for users to sift through.

When you use a keyword phrase instead of a single word, you are going to have an easier time bringing in traffic to your site as well as gain a higher ranking on the search lists. Keyword phrases are also easier to integrate into content than single words. Be sure your phrase makes sense, or you will get unfavorable results with your traffic, or people will simply leave your site immediately!

Do not fall prey to the so called "black hat" SEO techniques that would have you littering the page with keywords, but making them the same color as the background so that they cannot be seen or displaying them behind images on the site. These are nothing more than fast ways to get you banned by the major search engines. You always want to investigate these techniques to determine if you're dealing with a scam before you use them, especially when you're told, "They're really on the up-and-up even if they sound too good to be true." Always use techniques that are legitimate. Ditch the scams.

Do not try and optimize your page for more than one keyword. For each page or post you write, work only with one keyword phrase. If you are trying to optimize for too many different things, you will end up doing so for none of them and your writing will be cluttered. Make sure you have quality content, or none of it will work. When you try to force too many keyword phrases into the mix, your content starts to sound spammy and your site visitors will move on to your competition. It cannot be said enough: readers matter more than search engine spiders!

If you have aspirations to become successful as an Internet marketer, you must know the basics of SEO. With the help of SEO, Internet marketers can use all manner of strategies. You might take a "Content is King" approach while someone else prefers to simply "SEO the heck out of certain pages." Eventually you will find your groove and SEO techniques will start to become almost subconscious. Before you know it, the search engines will recognize your site as one of the best optimized ones on the playing field.
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SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a digital marketing strategy directed towards growing website traffic through non-paid (also known as "organic") search engine results. Here are the fundamental concepts and techniques:

1. Understand how search engines work: SEO is all about ensuring your website is attractive to search engines. This involves understanding how search algorithms index and rank pages. For example, Google's algorithms consider relevance, expertise, authority, and trustworthiness.

2. Keyword Research: Keywords are the words and phrases that people use when searching for information online. SEO involves identifying popular, relevant keywords and strategically incorporating them into your website content.

3. On-Page SEO: This involves making your website and individual pages appealing to search engines and users. It includes the strategic use of keywords, structuring your site with HTML tags, using meta descriptions, creating quality content, and more.

4. Content Marketing: Compelling content draws visitors to your website and encourages them to stay, increasing what's known as 'dwell time', which can positively impact your SEO. Plus, if your content is good, other sites may link to it, boosting your authority.

5. Off-Page SEO: This includes tactics you use outside of your website to improve its search rankings, like link building (getting other high-quality websites to link to your content), social bookmarking, and sharing content on social media.

6. Technical SEO: This encompasses strategies used to improve a site's backend structure. Fast site speeds, mobile-friendliness, crawlability, indexing, security, structured data, XML sitemaps, and URL structure all fall under technical SEO.

7. User Experience (UX): Search engines prefer sites that provide a good user experience. This involves making your site easy to navigate, mobile-friendly, and user-friendly.

8. Local SEO: If you have a local business, optimizing your site for local searches will be critical. This can involve getting your business on local business directories (like Google My Business).

9. SEO Analytics & Reporting: Use tools like Google Analytics, Google Search Console, or specialized SEO software to track your website's rankings, conversions, and traffic sources.

10. Algorithm Updates: Search engines like Google periodically update their algorithms, meaning SEO strategies must adapt. Staying on top of these changes is crucial.

let's delve deeper into the components of SEO:

Advanced Keyword Research and Analysis:
Apart from identifying popular and relevant key phrases, it's important to understand search intent (why people search for particular things). Also, remember the difference between short-tail (broad) and long-tail (specific) keywords. Use tools like Google's Keyword Planner, SEMrush, or Ahrefs to find keywords.

Content Quality:
Google prefers 'E-A-T', which stands for Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. High-quality content is original, well-researched, clear, engaging, and provides real value to readers. Also consider factors like content length and use of multimedia (images, videos, infographics).

Meta tags:
The page title and meta description can influence click-through rates. They should be descriptive and include keywords.

Structured Data Schema:
Schema markup helps search engines understand your content better, potentially resulting in rich snippets or improved ranking.

Backlinks:
Backlinks from high domain authority websites signal to search engines that your website is a reliable source of information. Techniques for getting backlinks include guest blogging, infographics, broken link building, and developing relationships with influencers.

Internal Links:
They tie your content together, guide visitors to high-value areas of your site, and give search engines a better understanding of your site structure.

Technical SEO:
Make sure your website is crawlable and indexable. An XML sitemap can help search engines understand your site's structure. Implement a robots.txt file to tell search engines which pages not to crawl. Look into AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) to improve mobile users' experience.

Page Speed:
Site speed is not only a ranking factor but also impacts user experience. You can use tools such as Google's PageSpeed Insights for this.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL):
Security is a ranking factor, and SSL adds an encryption layer between servers and users.

Voice Search & Mobile-First Indexing:
As of March 2021, Google uses mobile-first indexing, meaning the mobile version of your site is considered for indexing and ranking. SEO also increasingly involves optimizing for voice search.

SEO and Social Media:
While social signals (likes, shares) aren't directly a ranking factor, there's a correlation between social network presence and how well a site ranks.

International SEO: If you're targeting audiences in different countries and languages, you'll need to maintain SEO best practices that cater to these various demographics. This includes using hreflang tags to indicate the targeted language and country for each page, and possibly maintaining separate URLs or domains for each location.

Core Web Vitals: Introduced by Google, these are a set of factors that are part of Google's "Page Experience" score. They measure how users perceive the experience of interacting with a web page beyond its pure information value. It includes metrics like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), which measures how long it takes the main content of a page to load; First Input Delay (FID), which measures the time it takes for the page to become interactive; and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), which measures how often users experience unexpected layout shifts.

Featured Snippets and SERP features: Google's search engine results pages (SERPs) are no longer just about ten blue links. There are now numerous "SERP features" like featured snippets, People Also Ask boxes, image packs, and more. Optimizing for these can provide additional avenues for visibility.

Semantic SEO: Semantic SEO is about crafting content that answers the user's intent rather than just targeting specific keywords. It's about understanding and optimizing for the topics and ideas behind a user's search.

Video SEO: If your website uses video, then video SEO is critical. Include relevant keywords in your title and description, ensure the video's file name includes the keyword, and consider having a transcript of the video.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and SEO: AI is increasingly influencing how search engines rank websites. For example, Google's AI algorithm, known as RankBrain, interprets users' search queries to deliver results that cater to the user's intent. AI can also help in content creation, personalization, and performance analysis.

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs): PWAs are applications that use modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like experience to users. Ensuring that PWAs have proper URLs, are linkable, accessible by search engine crawlers, and provide an engaging user experience is an emerging aspect of SEO.

Local SEO: This is crucial for businesses servicing specific geographic areas. It involves strategies like getting your business listed on Google My Business, optimizing for local keywords, and accumulating positive reviews.

Image SEO: Ensuring that your images are optimized can contribute to site performance, as large images can slow site speed, and help your images appear in image search results. Techniques include using descriptive file names, alt text (alternative text), compression for size optimization, and using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to reduce load times.

SEO Analysis & Reporting: Keep track of your results and make data-driven decisions. Use Google Analytics, Google Search Console, or specialized SEO software to track metrics like organic traffic, keyword rankings, backlinks, and more. Be sure to also keep an eye on your competitors' SEO strategies.

Multimedia SEO: In addition to text and images, videos, podcasts, and interactive content can also be indexed and ranked by search engines. Each medium has its own specific SEO considerations, like transcript availability for videos and podcasts, and load speed and mobile-friendliness for interactive content.

UX (User Experience) & SEO: Good UX design is becoming increasingly important for SEO. Sites that are easy to navigate, understandable, and visually pleasing may lead to longer dwell times, lower bounce rates, more backlinks, and other factors search engines use when ranking sites.

Assessing Algorithm Changes: Google and other search engines constantly update their algorithms. Effective SEO strategies therefore involve keeping track of these changes and accommodating them. Major updates are typically announced by the search engine, while minor changes might require close attention to your site's analytics to detect.

SEO Tools: In addition to the earlier mentioned tools (Google's Keyword Planner, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Google Analytics, Google Search Console), consider using other SEO software like Moz, Rank Ranger, and Screaming Frog's SEO Spider. These can help with backlink analysis, technical SEO audits, SERP rankings, and more.

SEO & Content Marketing: SEO and content marketing overlap significantly. Through creating quality, engaging content, you can attract backlinks, incorporate keyword strategies, improve dwell time, and meet many other SEO goals.

Penalty Recovery: If your site is hit by a Google penalty, you'll need to identify the reason (for example, low-quality content or suspicious backlinks), fix the issue, and apply for reconsideration.

Mobile SEO: This covers practices meant to optimize the mobile user experience, critical as Google follows a 'mobile-first' indexing strategy. It involves ensuring your site is responsive, that it loads quickly on mobile devices, and that any pop-ups or interstitials aren't making the site difficult to use on mobile.

Structured Data and Schema: This is code added to your website that helps search engines better understand your content. It can also help you get rich snippets in search results, which can improve your click-through rates.

JavaScript and SEO: JavaScript can create challenges for search engines. If your site heavily relies on JavaScript, you need to make sure that search engines can still crawl and index your content. This could involve dynamic rendering or other strategies.

Voice Search SEO: More and more people use voice-activated assistants like Alexa and Google Home. Optimizing for voice search often involves targeting more natural, conversation-like queries.

Advanced Link Building: Beyond the basics, advanced link building could include tactics like broken link building, creating "linkable assets," and outreach to influencers in your industry.

APIs in SEO: APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, can help automate and scale SEO tasks. For example, you might use a keyword data API to get data for a large number of keywords, or a backlink data API to analyze your backlink profile.

Advanced Technical SEO: This could include topics like site speed optimization, managing crawl budget to ensure efficient crawling and indexing, setting up an XML sitemap, managing duplicate content issues, and correctly handling 301 and 302 redirects.

EAT and SEO: EAT stands for Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. These are factors Google's human reviewers are told to consider when they evaluate web content. EAT is most important in what Google calls "Your Money or Your Life" topics, like health advice or financial advice, where inaccurate information could harm users.

Advanced SEO Experiments: Sometimes, you might want to run experiments to test whether certain changes improve your SEO. This might involve A/B testing different meta descriptions, title tags, or even entirely different page content to see what leads to higher rankings.

OAM (Online Authority & Reputation Management): Managing the overall online presence, reputation, and credibility of a business. Reviews, social media, public relations, brand mentions, influencer partnerships, guest blogging, and other factors significantly contribute to a company's online authority.

Advanced Keyword Clustering: This involves grouping keywords thematically to enhance the content's relevancy. The "parent" topic consists of high-volume keywords and "child" topics center around long-tail keywords. It's an effective way of content structuring and helps search engines to understand the contextual relationship between the pages.

International SEO: If you are optimizing your website for different locations and languages, you may need to consider international SEO strategies. These could include use of hreflang tags to let search engines know which language you are using on a specific page, or setting geotargeting preferences in Google Search Console at a country level.

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages): These are a type of HTML, optimized for mobile web browsing and intended to help webpages load more quickly. While they can improve user experience, you have to ensure that the AMP versions of your pages are correctly set up and don't contain any SEO issues.

AI and Machine Learning in SEO: AI and Machine Learning are being increasingly used in SEO for tasks such as content optimization, predictive analytics, and customer experience improvement. Tools such as RankBrain, Google's AI algorithm, are part of the ways Google evaluates pages.

Core Web Vitals: Introduced by Google, Core Web Vitals are a set of factors considered important in a webpage's overall user experience. These signals measure how users perceive the experience of interacting with a web page and include elements like loading speed, interactivity, and stability of content as it loads.

Entity SEO: An entity is a concept or thing that can be distinctly identified. Google uses entities to understand the web and how different concepts and things are connected. Creating clear entities on your website, and showing their relationships with other entities, can help Google better understand your content.

Data Privacy and SEO: As privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA have come into effect, it's vital for SEOs to work within these parameters. Use of cookies for tracking user behaviour, and how personal data is processed, are now factors that must be considered along with SEO strategies.

Personalization in SEO: Personalization refers to customizing users' search experience based on their past behavior, device they're using, location, and other personal attributes. This can make a big difference in improving user experience and achieving better engagement and conversion rates.

Trends in SEO: Lastly, keeping abreast of the latest trends in SEO can give you an edge. From implementing the latest technologies to understanding evolving user preferences, proactive learning and adaptation can lead to significant improvements in your SEO performance.
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Tedyma

Natural back links are most important for increasing page rank or accessibility on search engines. Social media sites are effective source for that.
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RobertJonas

Quote from: Beaker on 09-21-2012, 12:41:33
Do not try and optimize your page for more than one keyword. For each page or post you write, work only with one keyword phrase. If you are trying to optimize for too many different things, you will end up doing so for none of them and your writing will be cluttered. Make sure you have quality content, or none of it will work. When you try to force too many keyword phrases into the mix, your content starts to sound spammy and your site visitors will move on to your competition. It cannot be said enough: readers matter more than search engine spiders!

This is true, but make sure to add as many as related keywords as possible on your page to make it appear as natural as possible. For a 1000 word page, I make sure to have my main keyword appear 8-10 times. If I need to use that keyword more than that, then I use one very similar but not exactly the same. It's very true that reader come first, but a lot of people don't seem to realize this. Have good quality content and with some SEO you'll have a good ranking site in no time.
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Thanks for sharing this useful information about SEO.
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