Hey guys, I am new to this forum and to SEO, and I would really appreciate some advice, since I am completely lost! OK, the thing is that I've been running an e-commerce website and all our visits so far have been through PPC (AdWords, Yahoo, MSN, Shopping.com, BizRate.com, etc.), and I'd like to start generating some "free" traffic, from high positions on SERPs. I've read SEO Book, from Aaron Wall, and two other SEO books I got at Amazon. I think I have a fairly good idea about SEO best practices, but honestly I don't know if I'm doing the right thing. What I did was to buy a subscription to WordTracker, I got like 20,000 keywords, and then I ran a competition test, and I got the 20 keywords with the best KEI. I ran the tool for Google and Yahoo. From the 20 keywords I got, I used common sense to filter out some since their relevancy was very poor, and I ended up with these 10 terms: tooled leather mens belts canadiens leather jackets luxury alligator wallets women's vintage leather racing style motorcycle jacket women't leather jackets with fur collar men's leather rodeo wallets fine leather coats ca motorcruise leather jackets womens pettite leather coats leather credit card briefcase I was thinking about generating 10 pages, one for each keyword, use the kw on the title, H1 and maybe one H2 as well, once or twice in the article copy, the meta description tag and meta keywords tag. OK, now the questions: - Am I using the right technique to pick up keywords? - If the keywords are right, is my approach to get high rankings the right one? - Am I doing everything completely wrong or I am on the right track? I would actually prefer to outsource SEO to someone else, since I know I am no good at it and have no experience or enough time to dedicate to it, but we are a really tiny startup and we can't afford expensive professional services yet. Does anyone know about a SEO firm willing to charge a percentage of the sales coming from organic results on search engines as opposed to a flat fee? Thank you so much for your help, sorry for the long post, I am a newbie and had lots of doubts.
Hi Zekell, Welcome to DP Your approach towards SEO being a new to it is perfectly alright, you have already done the onsite optimization perfectly (need to add some more onsite optimization). Now try to promote your site: by submitting it in free directory, article directory and exchange some good links for your site...
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Looks like your doing well mate from what I understand, I agree with magda that some of your keywords seem a bit unlikley. The only thing you haven't mentioned is link building (the most improtant part I think). Checck out the sticky thread in the link building topic on this forum for a good overview.