Ok. I'm really new to this SEO thing. However, I think I've learn most of the basics . I have a list below of all the things I've done to help my site get indexed quickly in Google and other search engines. But, what else can I do to improve my SEO results? (Site in my signature) 1. Submitted to over 1000 directories. 2. Submitted to over hundred of search engines. 3. Submited to over 100 blog directories. 4. At least 75% of the posted on 4 bookmarking sites. 5. Listed most of the posts on 4 different forums.
Absolutely correct, Quality and unique content is the king and relevant back links is queens and when the both are together then your can create your empire. Natural links is the best
This is due to mis-information that is all over the internet; welcome to 2008! Now, I don't normally answer these threads since they get slammed with useless replies and\or invalid information. So I hope you really take what I say into consideration and properly begin the "on-page" optimization of your blog; I'm assuming it's a blog since in #3 you said you submitted to blog directories. First, you need to review Stymiee's SEO Faq over at Sitepoint forums. This thread is the a written article\faq for beginners getting into search engine optimization. You'll find all the basic questions and "correct\proper" answers to be located in this thread. Second, yet another Sitepoint member made an excellent post regarding proper optimization of the wordpress blogging platform; I'm assuming your using wordpress. Dan Schulz's Wordpress SEO Checklist is a must read if your using wordpress. Even if your not the same basic practices should be used on other blogging platforms. After you achieve optimal on-page optimization return to digitalpoint and we can gladly go over the never ending off-page optimization process.
Thanks. When you search on the internet and for the majority of DP those are usually the responses I see people give...but since I'v been playing more attention to what people post, I'm realizing a lot of people on DP really don't know what they're talking about at time.... I've been hearing this for a while now. So, as long as my content's wording is unique, compared to lets say dozens of other bloggers writing about my same topic....my content will still stand out more? Or those the content's topic all together has to be unique compared the to the other bloggers? Yes, its a blog. Thanx for taking the time and responding....I started out making the blog as a hobby but since my unique visitors started to pick up this month, I really want to get serious about it......I'm from Chicago, too REP ADDED TO ALL ABOVE
That is correct, I would only really listen to what people have to say if they give an example of the traffic they receive by using the technique they're describing. Like "my traffic increased from 100 to 10,000 visitors per day by correctly optimizing page titles".
Submiting site to directories won't help you much. You need to focus on getting more hard links from other sites that rank well on G. Also check other basic steps on SEO, this are not all
And I'm from Aurora (I'm the guy that ssandecki mentioned about the WordPress SEO checklist). Anyway, ssandecki really hit the nail on the head with regard to the SEO FAQ. You'll also want to check out Chris Beasley's Comprehensive SEO Guide as well. But let's take a quick look at what you did here, ok? The back-link weight from these directories are likely to be very weak; if you're going to submit to directories (and it's always a good idea when launching a new site), make sure they're related to the niche or topic your site happens to be about. You only need to submit to three - Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live. Ask.com is the fourth major search engine, but they do not accept submissions - instead they find your site by looking for links to it on other sites. The rest are really just niche search engines and other minor players and are really not worth submitting to - with the exception of search engines that are focused on your niche which happen to be used regularly (good luck finding them). Again, make sure they're related to your blog and its niche. Don't just submit for the hell of it. Make sure the ones you submit to are actually relevant and worth submitting to. I'm not big into social marketing, but if it floats your boat... (which brings me to my next point) Those won't be worth much given how many outbound links (both internal and external) are on a typical forum thread. Like with social marketing, you need to focus the marketing of the Web site to the target audience of the forum. For example, if I were to launch a Web site about SEO for Web developers, placing the links here on the forum would probably be advantageous - given my good reputation here and elsewhere online (such as SitePoint and SEO.com for example), chances are I could steer a lot of targeted traffic to the new site. Now, if the site was about sunbathing in Siberia during the dead of winter, this would most definately be the last place to promote the site. And that's the thing about social marketing - in order for it to be effective, you have to be recognized as a respected member of the community you are trying to pitch to. In other words, it's going to take a lot of work, and that also means getting involved in two or three of the big communities before branching out to the smaller ones. People have to get to know you before they can decide whether or not they'll like you, trust you, and want to interact with you outside of the community setting.
Thanks for the extra inform on SEO and all the other side comments on my submissions........and regarding the forums, I posted them in sections targeted toward my niche, and received most of my earlier and some of my present hits from them Also, Digg works wonders, and gets indexed into Google extremely fast, at least for me.....
Digg tends to work well because it's crawled frequently by the search engines. But in order to be effective, you still have to have a network of other Digg users that respect and trust you.
Yup, building links will not do much unless you have good on page seo. Make sure to pay attention to what your competitors are doing and try to figure out why they are ranking better than you. imo social bookmarking can be great if you use it right, the trick is to come up with those type of articles that people will want others to see, when you use stumbleupon for example, sometimes you come across something that makes you want to hit stumble and share with others, sometimes it can just be a blank page with one picture on it how many times have to hit stumble and all you see is 1 cartoon strip or an image of a collapsed building? Of course Digg is different, you will actually have to write articles, interesting breaking news seems to be the thing there.
Work on your content also, don't ignore it. Optimizing it based on latent semantic optimization will make an important step to the document indexing process. In addition to recording which keywords a document contains, the methods examines the document collection as a whole, to see which other documents contain some of those same words. LSO will consider that documents that have many words in common to be semantically close. Therefor, search engines extract this pack of words for the realted topic (called ContentDNA) and match your site accordingly. Based on how much your site matches it ranks better, this is the nearly present and future of search engines. However, page rank, backlinks and code optimization still matters, but content optimization will play the major role. documents contain some of those same words. LSI considers documents that have many words in common to be semantically close, and ones with few words in common to be semantically distant. This simple method correlates surprisingly well with how a human being, looking at content, might classify a document collection. Although the LSI algorithm doesn't understand anything about what the words mean, the patterns it notices can make it seem astonishingly intelligent.
Yea, thats something I have to work on getting more Digg friends, but it really helps my traffic. Yea, I love Digg.... Stumble really doesn't compare to it...Stumble can bring you a lot of traffic in a short amount of time but their not quality visits like Digg.....Digg attract visitors who actually what to see your info, while stumble brings in loads of random people who just like to hit the stumble button.... Wow, that was some deep information, I'll try to keep all of that in mind Yea, thats my focus at the moment and optimizing my adsense placements
Aaaah, "the" Question of What more to do... Anyway you can check my ultimate link and traffic list to get some ideas (I hope Rob is not looking at this that I have already linked to the list many times today)