is there a rough up to date guide to SEO? im sure someone must have written one on here thanks for any help!
It's not new, but it's still valid: www . seomoz . org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization
You could start with Google's own guide: http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
I wrote this guide to SEO basics earlier this year. http://www.scribd.com/doc/12872700/SEO-EBook-A-primer- Let me know what you think!
The only two sources to trust are seomoz.org seobook.com Anyone here who says they wrote a guide, is likely to have been lucky ranking non - competitive keyword terms.... otherwise they would not need to try and promote themselves.
ah thanks for your advice.. and the reason why i didn't go searching myself is, people on here generally have alot of good knowledge of SEO.. and if i went on google.. i would probs end up finding BS thanks for help guys!
Yep, start with this guide and it will get you 90% of the way there. Basically pick good keywords, get variations of them in your page title, page description, H1 tag, and page text. Then get links back to your page from related sites with variations of the same keywords.
I wrote a guide to keywords in web design: SEO basics. As the title suggests, it gives you basic seo advice (including sample code) for how to use keywords in website deisgn for SEO. Beyond that, beware of using flash, entry pages and frames - they can all impact on seo. Seek further knowledge if you want to use these. Also, you need to build backlinks - go through a few pages of this section of the forum and you will get a pretty good idea.
Below is a prime example of why its best to stick to seomoz.org and seobook.com for SEO advice. <title>Website Design Suffolk, Affordable Web Design Suffolk</title> Keyword repeats are useless....probably earned a filter for it.. <meta name="keywords" content="Website design Suffolk, web design Suffolk, website designer Suffolk, web designer Suffolk, affordable website design suffolk" /> Not used by the search engines any longer for keyword rankings. Is used by one for spam checking which is probably why in that engine you do not rank well.. If it were used for rankings....your example would be flagged for keyword stuffing...... Website Design: H1 - H6 Tags What h6 tag???? lol These have been depreciated for overuse by so called SEOs (cough) <img alt="Website design: Suffolk 12 Step Workshop" Actually its keyword stuffed and does not take into account who the tag was developed for which is those that are vision impaired. Alt image tag should be limited to just one or two of the images at the top of the page. Since text to speech readers do not care for capital letters, so no need to use caps, if anything probably an indicator to the search engines you SEOd your page. alt="website design image" is all that is needed. Thank you though for proving my point in reference to having a bit of luck with rankings and suddenly feeling you are qualified to offer SEO advice. most are not...... PS real SEOs do not need a keyword oriented domain to rank at the top for competitive keywords.... Sorry to burst your bubble but someone needs to stop the spread of misinformation here at DP.
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wow thanks sem advanced! i know its backlnks unique content and good keyword choice.. its just easier to have a guide to give me a pathway... my sites been up for 3 days and got over 300 visitors from the good quality backlinks... im not sure if im ranked in google or anything... hopefully i will be soon.... thanks for all the help! i'll take some keywords out just so i dont get concidered as spam!
No problems......good relevant links can do so much good it is hard to explain. Some of the sites doing over 1,000,000 visitors per month typically have traffic figures along the following. Direct Traffic - 40% Referral Traffic - 50% Search Traffic - 10% While search engine traffic is nice to have, it is often window shoppers, tire kickers types who are not looking to spend money but often want "free" information. I try to explain to clients that businesses are built in many ways, just as they were for centuries before a search engine arrived.
Aaron used to have a SEOBOOK but I think he discontinued that. May be he has started a membership site in place of that.