SEO for the VERY beginner, A great starting guide. Enjoy

I wrote this for someone and I figured I'd share it with you guys. This is for noobs and will get you indexed, fast. It's extremely easy and basic, but it is a good start for a starter. I wrote this guide someone who has very little computer experience. Enjoy

BTW, I wrote this for a friend who is a plumber who just made his website. So that's why it references to plumbing. Obviously you need to reference to your website and content and not to plumbing

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First thing is Yahoo answers. Yahoo answers propagates (shows up on google once it's created) in only a few days, which is super fast. Here are some steps to get your question on there. By the way, this may be a little tedious but it'll pay off

1. Make 3 yahoo email addresses. Use fake info when making them and make sure you don't use any name even similar to your own (don't want people thinking you made these questions) and also make sure they are in no way similar to eachother. Write the info down so you don't forget. It's totally ok, yahoo doesn't care how many emails you make.

2. Then go here http://answers.yahoo.com/ and with yahoo account #1 ask question like "OMG my plumbing is doing <insert something bad> and i can't fix it myself. I'm in columbia, sc area. I've been screwed by plumbers in the past so I want to make sure I hire someone who really knows what they are doing. Any suggestions?"

3. Wait a day, no longer than a day though , and with yahoo account #2 "answer" the question. You may need to go to account one and get the link by copy and pasting it to a notepad file. Then log out of #1 and into #2 and paste it in the address bar and you're there . Yahoo will ask you to sign up for yahoo answers and then it will let you answer it. Say, "im a realestate agent in xxxxxx and I get xxxxxx to fix all my properties before they go on show. He is prompt, reliable, and can handle any problem. etc etc etc" Then make sure you put your link and email in there. Use correct punctuation and spelling and no shortened words

4. then wait another day, and reply again with account #3 say something like "wowww, funny I stumbled upon this question and your answer....he must be a popular guy cuz I needed <say something thats an easy fix> and my friend recommended him. He got the job done super fast, I'd definitely recommend him!" now with this one DON"T use correct punctuation and type in all lower case, don't give any links and use shortened words, like "cuz" instead of "because". This way it will make you seem totally different than the other guy who answered and they won't suspect a thing!

5. Next go back to account #1 and go to your question and you can "choose the best answer" choose the real estate agent. and BOOM you're done!!! I know it's a pain in the azz, but you'll love the results. google your website, the one you'll put in yahoo question 3 days later and you'll see the question pop up on google

ok so thats 1 way to get on google.... another way is to use social bookmarker. it's very tedious and you may have to do it through out a couple weeks. id get on here whenever you can and make links though.

socialmarker DOT com just go there and you'll see on the right bookmark details for title put something like "awesome plumber in the cxxxxx area" for link, put your website and for text say something like "best quality work and best rates around" for tags put "<location>, plumber, home improvement, best rates, quality plumbing"

then click submit. it will take you to a bunch of odd sites, these sites are called "social bookmarking sites" and what socialmarker.com lets you do is it walks you through each social bookmarker site letting you submit your links fast. basically what social bookmarking sites are, are just people sharing "cool sites" or "interesting sites" with others. basically they are saying, look what i found, check it out! so tons of people click on them which in turn, propogates it on google. when socialmarker makes you visit these sites, it may make you create an account. i'd make the account with one of your new yahoo accounts. you don't want it to look like you posted it so using a fake persona is good. you can make the same login and password for all these sites so you can remember. the first time is the suckiest since you have to make new accounts, but after that its really easy. if you get to one thats in a different language or you can't figure out, just skip it. i forget exactly what it says, but it will say "go to next" or "skip" or something and it will take you to the next social bookmarking site.

This isn't going to be fun and it's going to take a while since you have to make accounts. But i promise it will pay off and the next time you do this it will go super fast since you won't have to register. You can keep doing it once a week. Or split them up in 7 days and do a little everyday. The more "links you share" on those bookmarking sites the quicker you're climb to the top will be. Once you go through it once, make sure you change the "title" and "text" to something different.

 

Thanks for sharing these useful tips.I think the best guide for the beginners to learn SEO is "search engine optimization starter guide from google' and you can find the pdf ebook from official adsense blog.

 

great read, this is a must read if you are a SEO starter... but there is so much more to learn here on DP

 

Great guide, and definitely practical. Never thought of using Yahoo Answers in that way! I'll try it out sometime.

 

Great starting tutorial. This will help a bunch of people out. THanks

 

Thats not really SEO, its more advertising yourself on yahoo through answers. It will do nothing for your own website SERPs

 

looks gr8...cn i get further details?

 

thanks everyone for your kind words. ive made a bunch of lil guides to stuff for people. think i'll start posting some of them for DP users.

it will get you indexed, that's the point of yahoo answers. I even say in the first sentence that it will get you indexed fast...lol. also you can rinse and repeat over and over again and get backlinks. i know many people who scale it up massively and hire VAs to post all day on yahoo answers in order to get lots of backlinks. did you even read the part about social bookmarking and using the socialmarker site????? that will give you backlinks too. and we all know the power of backlinking so yes, my post is considered a lil seo But, like I said, these are easy methods for the very beginner

its a start, first get yourself indexed quicker than you normally would by using yahoo answers. then start backlinking on social book marker sites by using socialmarker

 

great post and it is really helpful and informative for people who is trying to learn seo

 

It's useful information. The whole yahoo answers idea is useful if your business is location specialized. Though if your website offer's something different. Web hosting, advertising etc. Which is specific to anyone who want's it. You should generally answer other people's questions. Least that way you get general interest from the one asking the question. Only problem with this method is. Answer too many questions with the same link they will suspect you are advertising and ban you. Which is really unfair as you are genuinely answering people's questions.

To actually get listed quicker i suggest. Doing a google search for your keywords or subject like "plumbing". Get your link on as many of the top listed site's as you possibly can. When google follow's the link and realises your content is relative. It will see your site as more important and list you faster.

 

That's what I was thinking. Definitely very little to do with SEO at all. Yahoo Answers is about .01% of overall SEO, if that! No SEO beginner guide can be compiled in under 900 words, that's for sure

 

.01% is still something and it's a start

it seems like you guys are still missing the socialmarker site. definitely check that out and read it fully and the other posts.

like i keep saying, this is a very beginner guide and a good start to getting indexed (yahoo) and making backlinks (socialmarker), thats about it. sure i agree, a better guide would be a lot longer..... but like i said and keep saying, this is to get indexed and start making backlinks. Again you guys, this is something i wrote for a friend with close to no computer knowledge, that i figured i'd share with DP. it was useful to my friend and i figured it may be useful to some people on here. based on some of the replies it has been

 

I don't understand why every other guy seems to complain. Yeah beginner guides can never be this short but then its equally true that the longer it is, the less likely a beginner will take action LOL.

ToBeElite I appreciate your effort to help and what u state absolutely works. Keep the nice stuff coming. More Power To U.

 

I think it very good to me . Can any one guide me how to learn SEo . Im totaly new

 

your seo guide is really helpful..............thanks for sharing it

 

I think its more about how to use yahoo answers, getting the high points in Yahoo will automatically gives you the backlinks.

 

Great It's very helpful for Beginners to know more about seo....

 

Any articles to back this up? I thought yahoo answers has big relevancy, also it's an authority domain or something like that

 

yahoo answers is a big one. you need to get to level 2 to have your links come up as hyper links, otherwise they will come up as just links. It'll take you maybe 15 questions to get to level 2 though, just keep selecting your answer as the best answer.

I've used this method to index MANY times. Works super fast. There will be A LOT of people who come across your link too. Some people just sit on there all day trying to get to "top contributor" status and trying to rise in rank. And it DOES work good for backlinking too, I'd like to see an article to back up the .01% as well, since I know for a fact that many SEO gods have offices of peons sitting all day in yahoo answers creating back links to sites.

Let's say you have a money making website/forum. Think about the endless possibilities of questions you can post. I'm saying, post your own questions and answer them yourself, then select your answer as BEST ANSWER that is the key. You can also answer OTHER peoples questions, sure, but I mean, there is no guaruntee of you being selected as best answer.

When the question first gets indexed on google, little excerpts of each persons answer will be displayed under the question. When your answer gets chosen as BEST ANSWER then only an excerpt from YOUR answer will show up on the google search under the question. Put your link towards the top and there ya go, it'll be in your excerpt

I mean, I know this isn't a long guide, etc etc. I only wrote it for a friend and figured I'd share it with you as it may be useful to some peeps. Don't know why people are knocking it, I'm guessing they haven't tried it and really scaled it up to see results. Oh well....

How many times have you googled something and a yahoo question came up first? so ya, its good place to make backlinks...

But again, DON"T forget about socialmarker which is also mentioned

Thanks for your post theentry

 

Or you can buy some level2 yahoo accounts for a few bucks lol