The Three Most Effective SEO techniques

I thought it was sad no one had experience as the most important factor. After optimizing so many websites you develop a good feel for what is needed in any given situation.

 

Content is not aways a given... at least original content is not. I was amazed at all the sites I've seen working for directories that submit nearly blank pages, or pages with 'default' content (like the ABOUT page on Wordpress).

So when dealing with morons, I find it best to assume nothing is a given. (and I'm not calling you a moron for you it was a given)

1. Original content
2. Good linking practices pointing to that content
3. Navigation (including site map)
4. Proper use of tags

 

On site SEO: TITLE IS THE MOST IMPOERTANT (if you have the right content of course)

Off-site: In-bounding links. (links that direct to your site).

 

Search Engine Friendly url's do not possess any uncanny powers, but they simply appear visually appealing on search engines.

Suppose there is a link with text "Software Development Texas"

link1 : A normal link will look like "abc*com/php?4059438034938034

link 2 : whereas a search friendly url will look like abc*com/development_texas

Just observe the difference between two. Link 2 will reseult in higher CTR (Click Through Rate) on natural search since development and texas will appear in BOLD text.

Other than this search engines do not indulge in any sort of discrimination against non-search friendly urls.

 

Natural Backlinks
Domain Authority
Basic Onpage Factors (unique content, meta title/description etc)

 

Over the past year or so, search engines have started to take serious measures to combat spam against them. Search engine spamming usually occurs in one of three ways:

-Multiple submissions of your web pages (you d be surprised to learn that people still do this).
-Keyword spamming in low quality content.
-Link spamming (building tons of links to a new site REALLY quickly).

Internal link,External link,Page rank,are also among them.

Thanks....

 

i think you should add

page title
sef url
meta tag
xhtml validating

to your list

 

1 Using Keywords in the Title Tag
2 Anchor Text of Inbound Links
3 Link Popularity
4 Unique Content

 

title yes
what's an sef url?
meta tags aren't as important any more but they're still helpful
validation is good but not completely necessary. if there are only a few things wrong with the xhtml, then it's fine
I would definitely put "incorporation keywords into title, metas, content, internal links, and alt text on your list

 

Besides what already put forward...

1. Domain age. Buy a used domain that 5 years old or older.
2. Mix up your anchor tags keywords to avoid looking spammy.
3. Build unique content and on-topic backlinks daily.

 

deeplinks embedded in blog posts

 

1) NO. Google totally ignores META tags <--- !

My opinion:

1) Inbound Links
2) Relevant, often updated unique content
3) Balance between "relevancy" for certain keywords and being careful NOT to appear "spammy". Just right in between.

 

that's why I also said content, title, etc.

 

1. Identify your audience
2. write the site/page for the audience
3. use correctly-formatted markup
4. put links within related content
5. develop backlinks
6. update your site regularly

 

Backlink from authority site maybe important, also from relevant site

 

This is really it guys. I would add maybe ensuring your back links have the correct anchor text. My swing trading site ranks on the first page of Google for 7 different keywords.

 

Off page;
Incoming links with varied anchor text
Social Bookmarking occurrences

On-page;
Title
Headers
content

-Meta tags are useless - You only need a meta description if your top of page content is the same on every page (internal links, etc.)

 

It's amazing how long Google myths, once propounded, continue to circulate

davidmanip has it right.

See Which web page elements lead to high Google rankings?

 

1. Title
2. Content
3. Link Partner