I just found this forum today, and am a little dizzy with everything I've already learned thus far..! I'm a musician and songwriter recording my own music, and just started a blog at http://www.garagespin.com about home recording and indie music promotion. If you have ANY suggestions for traffic/exposure, they would be much appreciated. Thank you for this forum! -M
Welcome! Have a look here http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ and play around with some of the keywords that are relevant to your blog. Something like home recording tips or similar. Then find one or more of those phrases that have a decent number of searches on them, but (especially if you're new to the SEO game) best to choose a 2 or more word phrase like the one I mentioned. Or write a page for each phrase. Then get as many other sites (preferably relevant ones) to link to your dedicated (to that key phrase - could be homepage) page with this phrase as the clickable 'anchor text'. Just e-mail those other sites or look up (relevant) directories that allow self submission or post on other people's blogs and forums and leave your links behind. After a while you will get #1 in all search engines (provided you get enough people to link to you). Good luck and keep us posted!
You're just jealous you didn't think of it yourself . I thought I'd be nice to newbies for once and now you tell me off Mopac
Thanks for the welcome, everyone! And TopS3O, thanks especially for the tips on starting out! I definitely have a lot to learn, and will most definitely be a frequent reader of these forums. Much appreciated, -M
TopS3O, Another question relating to your previous post -- Regarding a keyword phrases I would select from Overture, if I concentrated on "building a home recording studio," (or "build a home recording studio")...If a another blog links to me using the anchor text above, will it also help my site's rankings for subdivisions of that phrase, such as "home recording studio"? Thanks, Mike
Mike, To an extent, yes. But nowhere near as powerful as the complete anchor text key phrase. What you are hinting on is a common strategy though. Poeple only optimize one page for say maximum 3 phrases. For instance: 'building a home recording studio', 'build a home recording studio' and 'home recording studio'. If you have many links to play with (like with the Co-op network) you might want to use all the 3 variations in the anchor text. If you're manually submitting to directories, you might want to stick to the 'best' on or indeed, the 'longest' one which still has the rest in it. There's no 1 rule to SEO; the creativity is the good thing about it. (The SE's screwing you over with an algorhithm tweak rendering your past 6 month's work useless is the bad side of it).