You know what, in general SEO is damn boring. Practically everything off-site is so repetitive it makes your eyes fall out your head, bounce off the keyboard and go rolling across the floor. All that dir submission, article submission, finding quality recips or one way links. Who needs it? Well, we all do. I must be the world's greatest procrastinator. I love the web and but hate the admin that comes with making a site. I'd do anything to avoid the boredom of dir subs for a new site, hate filling in the article subs forms, find the whole backyard of website promotion boring in the extreme. I spend more time here in DP, pretending to look up things than I do, doing the actual work. So here is my advice - not coming from a guru mind you, just a slogging webmaster who has been lucky enough to escape the 9 to 5 and be my own boss. You know you have to do the subs, you know you have to write the original content, you know you have to make the approaches to other webmasters, (hopefully with your email written in such a way, that they know you've bothered your arkie to actually look at their site in the first place). So here is my advice - just bloody do it. Read up on the things you need to do. Stop messing about. Make a list of seo elements you are going to achieve and work through it, without distraction, every single day. That's it. My golden tip. Now if you see me here, buggering about too much, just refer me back to this post and tell me to get on with my own work.
LOL...thats me there....sigh....... I already have a list of stuff to do, a list of quality websites to email, a whole list of directories and article websites......I dont know what im waiting for
Try a nifty extension for Firefox called InFormEnter. It makes filling out the forms for directory submissions like a walk in the park.
Damn good advice, I wish I took it myself more often. I'm the kind of person that would do a task 5 times bigger than I have to do to get out of the original job
Ain't that the truth, DCT At the moment, I have my son in a strop because I am refusing to give him any more sweeties and my daughter is demanding I put on her princess dress. My dog, is lying on my feet with her belly in the air wanting a scratch, the cat is clawing hell out of the ficus, the budgie and the goldfish need to have their homes cleaned and my hubby wants to know why I don't have time for a quick game of chess. Meanwhile, I have six paid-for pages to add to my main site, countless new pages and ideas to incorporate in the new site, three articles I promised to write for a friend (for no pay) and a new site proposal to write for a potential customer. YAWN. I need a good kick up the proverbial, because I am not in the mood for any of it. I'd much rather be here chilling out.
Very well said e10! I fall into the same trap, wasting too much dumb doing unproductive stuff, but at the same time always trying to learn.
The best advice from me will be just add lots of useful content and get lots quality links to your site. This all you need to rank high nothing else.
I am hit or miss. I did 17 hours a day for 9 days in a row until yesterday...now, I will be lucky to do 17 in the next week or 2. Great 1st post by the way.
trial and error will be your best guru, so good luck, i dumb myself for 7 years looking for fun on the net, porn and irc, and 1 year for trial and error, now i can say i can do almost anything i wanna do, just read and do some trial + error, you will know what's rollin' inside, oh, just check my log, i'm now #4 on google.es, now time for google.com
I agree it is alot easier on a forum or surfing the net then actually doing the work that would be helping your site.
Thanks for that, I actually made some directory submissions today without having to complain too much. ty!
im just starting out, still working a 9-5 but doing seo, having trouble filling my day. doing two websites, already reformatted them for seo. now i'm doing a few submissions a day so as not to make a crazy link development program that gets me banned. since the spy came out here ive been staring at it for about 3 hours a day, also listen to the web master radio (though i read everything way before they seem to talk about it). I'm bored but stuck here 40 hours a week!
wow...thanks for sharing your advice..... i know a lot of us here will absorb what you have said. goodluck!
If you want success... you need to DO it. success = 1% inspiration 99% perspiration. not constipation JC! lol
I waste my time on trial and error .. but at the end of day i use it somewhere or other and i somehow manage to make some $xx so i am bit happy with it.. but not really satisifed as i am damn buzy with job 11-9
I'll probably get maced, tasered and kicked in the gut for asking, but can someone tell me why so many here say the OP's tip is some of the best SEO advice? With all due respect, is this a case of "lowered expectations" or have I fallen into an obscure, alternate dimension?