I am wondering what everyone does exactly for their Website SEO? I will begin. 1. Forum posts with anchor text signature, on a number of forums. 2. Submitting website to business directories. 3. Blog posting for updated content on my website 4. Article submission to a number of article directories. 5. Press releases. 6. Social networking like myspace, active rain, facebook 7. Getting high pr links from places like hosting company, or other websites that have helped your website. Great places for testimonials. What do you guys do?
"4. Article submission to a number of article directories. 5. Press releases." I don't do that just yet, because I do not write articles. And what exactly do you do with social networks?
Can you expand on the press releases? Are you paying for them, or do you use free press release sites? Have any luck with this?
Using articles directories like ezinearticles can definitely help but you need to have anchor text links on the site to help it out. Right now I am Optimizing this site Satellite IP Solutions and as you can see that this link will bring relevance to the term in the search engines. It would help even more if I were to do this kind of thing in a forum that exclusively talked about Satellite IP Solutions
squidoo lenses, is that considered social networking? Either way it's a good idea. Can someone explain the term anchor text links? I'm a little confused but i'm thinking it means not using just a www.whatever.com but using your site name and keywords or a description?
taken word for word from site: How anchor text boosts your search engine rankings Anchor text is the hyperlinked words on a web page - the words you click on when you click a link. Here's an example, reciprocal links, in which "reciprocal links" is the anchor text. Anchor text usually gives your visitors useful information about the content of the page you're linking to. Here's why anchor text is so important... It tells search engines what the page is about. Used wisely, it boosts your rankings in search engines, especially in Google. http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/17/1/Anchor-text-explained
Forum sigs, blog comments, content submission sites (articles and news sites), and I think the big thing right now I need to work on is having the keywords in the right places and matching my site's content to the backlinks I already have. Content, content, content! And at least a few links to each specific page... So far its slow & steady growth on multiple domains. Still a newbie here but I've pulled in about 25k unique visitors in 6 months. (too bad it was mostly in a two-day burst! haha)
I have had a little success with press releases and I use free press releases. I don't pay for anything. The problem I had with the free press realeses is that I couldn't use anchor text, just my domain name. On page seo is very benefitial and I work on that as well. Social networking is benefitial because I get my url and name at a number of different places.
Poorly, myn is a bad plan. I do 2 things, do-follow blog lists and social bookmarking. It doesn't work to well. Im just quite lazy.
The things you have listed is great they are all good ways to build inbound links and doing a bit of each without spamming one method to death works great. Only thing you have over looked and is a hugely important part of SEO is on page optimization, there are so many things that count when it comes to on page I would be here allday listing them.
I do all of these things. how long before I start seeing reasonable traffic? Like over 500 people per day.
Those links will be practically worthless from an SEO point of view. Seriously - think about how many other external links your site will be competing with on just one thread? Multiply that by your post count and you'll see how futile this really is. (Though forums can be great for bringing in targeted traffic, especially if you've developed a good reputation on those forums.) Pretty much the same as above, but make sure you target the nice and industry your site is competing in. You don't need a blog to do this. Two words: Duplicate Content Though to be fair, if you use excerpts and summarize what the articles are about, and include a link back to the original article, you should be fine. Won't help much in the long run from an SEO point of view. It is however a great marketing tactic if you know how to use it properly. Actually you want back links from quality, relevant pages instead. The first two won't help much as I already said, but working on writing killer content will do a lot more good than most people realize. Good luck with it. Nice job! Keep it up. Something tells me you'll do fine in the long run.
I do these Forum posts with anchor text signature, on a number of forums. Submitting website to business directories. Article submission to a number of article directories.