The only way is to get a site - or even better more than one - and promote it. Try everything, have some sites - blogs are obvious thing to experiment with - that you regard as disposable and experiment. Never believe anything you read in a blog or a forum or an ebook until you've tried it yourself and seen whether it has any effect or not.
1. Content - The more unique your content is, the better, search engines (especially Google) wants to see content that is unique, and not just copied from article housing sites, and the like. 2. Less HTML and more text - Basically, keep things as simple as possible, I found that sites that look all fancy, tend to do no better than very basic sites that just have the SEO foundation down. Try to keep your HTML tags as little as possible and keep your content (I.E. text images) as your key focus in a site. Try to keep your base template as simple as you can. A lot of people can get turned off going to a site that has a bunch of links, tables and tables of small areas of content, it just confuses the web surfer and they will most likely leave. 3. Use of the Header Tags - This is something not very many people consider or even think about, but the use of Header tags, specifically the <H1></H1> tag is very important and should be on every page of your site, to indicate what the main focus of that page is about, so it gives the search engines a better understanding of what your page on your site is about. Although there is <H2></H2> tags and h3, h4, etc.., they are not nearly as important as the <H1> tag. I do recommend using h2 tags, but they are not necessary. 4. Link structure - The link structure of your site is very important, especially if you are trying to get all the pages of your site well indexed in the SEs. Try to keep your link structure the same nearly across every page of your site, especially the homepage (index.htm usually) of your site. 5. Incoming links to your site (AKA backlinks) - This is probably one of the most important aspects of getting a highly ranked website on search engines, and takes a lot of work as well. A backlink is a link on a site (other than yours) that points to your site. Search engine robots crawl the internet through links, and that is how your site gets indexed in the first place! The more incoming links you have to your site, the better ranking you will get. Also, not every link is considered equal. Links from similar sites are important, also the rank of the site that points to yours is important as well. 6. Title Tags - Title Tags, which are simple the <title></title> tag at the top of the html file that indicates the title of the page, this is very important because that is the link you see when you do a search engine search. And obviously this is important for ranking pages high. 7. Learn from others - I will finish this article up with you can learn a lot from watching what other people do, read indepth eBooks, that is where I have personally learned most of my knowledge of SEO. I do not consider myself an expert in this field, but gurus like Brad Collen (you can check out his famous SEO ebook here), and John Reese have been pretty much been the leader in SEO in the internet marketing world.
according to me there is an website www. webceo .com go there have an demo version if you cannot buy. check the density of keywords.h1 tags, backlinks and all major factor. compare those which are on top. so you will get an idea what requires to be on top.
Ppl say that hidden text, keyword stuffing and duplicate content may harm your website ranking. Do you really give a piece of advice to try such techniques and get banned by Google?
So you are ready to learn SEO. Here are few SEO blogs that might be interesting for your: 1. mattcutts dot com/blog/ 2. sitepronews dot com 3. webpronews dot com Try to read articles from big article sites like EzineArticle and ArticlesBase. But if you are looking to start SEO as your profession, then I would suggest you to go for a professional SEO training or certification course. Good luck,
I expect people to use common sense and not be complete idiots. Don't try and pick an argument where there isn't one. Though as I also said that it's a good idea to have some disposable sites to test with, you could try testing those things, and seeing exactly what happened, exactly what counts as keywords stuffing - oh and you're wrong about duplicate content anyway - it doesn't harm your ranking per se, it just gets filtered out. So, yes, trying it out and seeing how it gets treated would be a useful experiment. obviously, you don't experiment on your main source of income. You do it on a site set up for that, and that's kept completely separate from any sites that are important to you.
What was the OP asking about anyway? - Duplicate content is a black hat technique, whether it gets filtered, does or doesn't harm ranking, it's a SPAM strategy and is not advisable - Testing & making experiments is included in SEO but not when you are an intermediate or a newbie. And I think OP has nothing to do with it (so far as he is only asking to increase his skills; not strategies)
read read read. You also need quality content, that will change your ability to rank highly in a competition for keywords
Trial and error, learn and improve. Sometimes the mainstream isn't the right stream, and most of the time the right stream will never share their secrets.
Read search engine blogs regularly like search engine journal, search engine land, seomoz, etc. to keep up with the seo skills. That is the advice I can give,.
Learn from others And read eBooks in depth, that is where I have personally learned most of my knowledge of SEO.
You need tools to analyze whats working and whats not. So I suggest search for free seo tools and check your data of your site or blog every now and then to see the right strategy for your particular blog or website.
There is so much stuff to learn that it is hard to pin point the exact areas that need special attention. This forum is a good source of information, Google Official Blog, Matt Cutts Blog and some others. Scavenge the internet for information, make an informed decision realizing that there are no absolute truths in a lot of things concerning SEO. A lot of it has to be tested through trial and error.