How to have a good start with seo?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by joomee, Oct 5, 2009.

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    My boss gave me a new shopping site,and ask me to promote it just with blogging and posting,but I don't like blogging and posting all day long.I want to try promoting it with seo,however I am lacking of seo promoting system ,what should I do to have a good start? and what to do next...
     
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  2. HarrisonJ

    HarrisonJ Well-Known Member

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    Well, the point of SEO is to get high rankings in Google and other search engines. Mostly SEO consists of getting lots of trusted sites to link to your site with the anchor text of the phrase you want to rank for, setting your pages titles tags to the keywords you want to rank for, and making your pages have low visitor bounce rates by putting lots of good content on them. Yea, its complicated, start reading and learning and testing and don't stop.

    Blogging is a lot of work but its one of the best ways there is to get free traffic from search engines.
     
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    Initially, you need to know what your target keywords are. Do some keyword research first before you proceed to linkbuilding. Shopping is a competitive niche and you also must analyze your competitors. Once you've done that, you can start promoting the site.
     
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  4. joomee

    joomee Peon

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    Year,I know blogging is a hard work,and must keep on! But sometime it makes me boring,the traffic of the blog is increasing but the main site is the same.maybe the work has not done enough.
     
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  5. joomee

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    what I need to analyze the competitors' website,the keyworks? the PR? the Alexa?...
     
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  6. Neeka

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    There are a few good websites to see what the competition is searching for and using. Being new here, I am afraid to give you the exact sites. Not sure if that is allowed as a newbie.

    Maybe do a search at the top of the forum and see what you discover.:)

    Good luck!
     
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    You are right. Just blogging and promoting wont work. Infact no monopoly games would work. I suggest you do some article and directory submission in between. Also participate in niche forums.
     
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    Lots of methods are here to create quality back link. You can go with social book marking, directory submission, social media networking, forums & blog comments..are helpful in increasing the traffic for the website. Do provide appropriate link to get qaulity back link. Dont spam on blog while doing comment posting on it.

    Good luck.:)
     
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  9. Candise

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    The best way is to buy some cheap domains and a hosting account, and develop your SEO skills on your own websites. Try different tactics on each sites and see what works, then combine working tactics to come up with better methods that have the most success.

    Always try new things, experimentation is how you learn.
     
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  10. joomee

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    All those methods had been tried,but it seemed little traffic.
     
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    What do you mean by blogging and posting? Setting up a blog on your own site or publishing guest posts on other blogs? You should probably try the latter.
     
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    Thanks for all the information guys, it helps me, I'm in the beginning stages of all this.
     
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    #13
    first you target relative keywords & start from directory submission.
     
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    I mean blogging and posting on the others sites freely,my own site have no blog or forum.
     
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    johnk681 Active Member

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    Not only Blogging or posting you have to do lots more work... Better option get some quick guidance from popular SEO tutorial site / SEO Articles.
     
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    Try your best adding useful content for people and famous websites (Not only SE), You can get success.
     
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    thanks for this tips
     
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    atniz Well-Known Member

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    I think your boss is right there. There are so many companies create blogs and post articles related to their business on blog frequently. Increasing blog traffic with consistent new contents and it will eventually help your main site traffic too.

    On the other hand, blogging can be part of your SEO campaign. If you hate to build a blog and writing post frequently, then you will most probably hate SEO too.

    Because, almost 90% SEO value comes from backlinks. Building quality backlinks need time on research and consistent link building activity. I suggest you to start building quality links with proper combination of contextual links from high quality pages and sites manually. It is the only way that you can help your boss website to improve SERP ranking which will help your company in SEO.
     
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    Its very simple friend..1st you need to start with keyword researching than creating title and description. After this you need to optimize and than need to start directories, classifieds and forums and so on???
     
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    how could u, i think blogging is the most interesting part of offpage seo.
     
    julibraganza, Oct 6, 2009 IP