Stuart's Top Three Tips for Google SEO

Ok... so I've been reading a crap load of threads... members asking why their site doesn't rank and how they can get their site to rank. So I put together my top three SEO tips.

Top Three SEO Tips:

1) Create Good Content - I don't mean one or two pages that are written by someone who gets paid $3.00 per article... NO! I mean find the best content in your niche and go 10 steps beyond that. Think about what is going to set you apart form the 500,000 other websites in your niche.

2) Realistic Keyword Selection - Don't focus on the Uber hard keywords. I see people all the time that want to rank for "poker" , "ringtones" , "porn" , "credit cards". Let me tell you a secret.... 99.999% of you will never rank for these KW's... EVER! Be smart and go after the longtail keywords... they are easier and when you rank for several that is steady traffic. Don't bite off more than you can chew or afford.

3) Build Links - The single biggest mistake people make when building links is that they don't make it look natural. What happens most of the time is people go out and buy a bunch on links with only 3-4 anchor text per page. Get real people... do you really think if you got 100 *natural backlinks* that the people linking to you would really use the same anchor text... each one of them??? I bet if you asked 100 people to link to you would probably get at least 30 - 40 different anchor text. (BTW... this is so important write this down and stick it on the wall next to your PC)

I have more but those are my top three... enjoy!

 

This three tips are exactly correct.Thankz a lot.

 

Good post mate......well said the links should look natural.

 

thanks for stating the obvious.

 

3 Basics, not tips

 

I agree with you. The combination of the 3 main points is the one that determines whether a site becomes successful or not.

 

If you really want to separate your site from the other 500,000, I suggest
that you write very little content. The web has become saturated with
boring written content. Bloggers blogging about what other bloggers blogged.
The online audience's attention span can not handle all this boring content.

Think out of the box. Use some pictures, a video, a puzzle, a quiz, etc.

You totally lost me with this one. First you use buying links as an example of not "looking natural",
I don't think most people are buying links. Then you switch to asking people to link to us. If we ask
100 people to link to us, they will more than likely use whatever anchor text we ask them to use. duh.

Furthermore, I just don't see how varying anchor text will help my site become more relevant to my
chosen keyword phrase. Btw, "looking natural", in this case, just means blending in with the crowd.

I place most of my links. Signatures, comments, etc, so it makes no sense for me to attempt to rotate
through a 100 different keyword phrases for my homepage, when I am trying to rank for just few. Placing
my own anchors in this way is as natural as any other method, imo.

But anyways, thanks for pasting those tips in here.

Bompa

 

These are basic tips but absolutely correct it really help to newbie thanks for sharing

 

IMO no 3 should have been no 1.

I am convinced that G 'trust' a site more if it has loads of different anchor texts...like in 'real life' with natural links...lots of 'domain name' links, 'click here' type links etc and that sites do better in the serps as a result.

This is based on my experiences - I abandoned chasing bought links and caring about anchor text about a year ago and do much better in the results now. ('medium difficult' keywords rather than 'ringtones' type keywords)

But try and explain this to 99% of people in the 'link exchange' section of this site and no-one believes that one great content link is better that 25 crappy links, and PR isn't important...or else no-one has content sites so can't find anywhere to put 'real links' anyway...

 

Nice tips Stuart, please share some more...

 

Thanx for the tips dude...This will help me lot.

 

Good post, esp the part about links must look natural.

 

the last one is the most important it is all about the links i believe

 

really nice tips, tks.

 

That is a good tips and by the way I also agree with Bompa too. Anyway my thoughts is first you need to identify what kind of traffic you need and that is related to your site. It is important because you want the traffic that comes to your site act at least maybe 50% like the way you want them to react. Content for adsense click is different from content that you want to show you as an expert in your niche. Maybe you want that traffic to stay on your site and keep coming back. Well that's my 2 cents.