What Is The Single Best Thing You Know About SEO?

Found this on another forum..

Thought this guy summed up an important aspect of link strategy well:

If you had to give someone one tip.. What's the most important single piece of information you know that would help people new to SEO?

 

Only my competitors rank on the first page for my keywords.
They will never link to me even if I pay them to do so
So this SEO tip while 100% correct is useless sometimes.

SEO tip? Build a beautiful site and provide quality content and you will never have to worry about SEO.
Low quality sites don't rank high in the long term no matter of how good your SEO is.

Jokingly (or maybe not): Only crappy sites need SEO

 

My first tip would be not to believe everything you read about SEO. Much of it wrong, out-of-date or misleading. Even here. Do your own research and stop following the crowd.

Other than that I would echo zexy. Build a quality site and the SEO willl (mostly) take care of itself.

 

Seo is a marathon, don't listen to all the snake oil salesmen who claim #1 rank in 48 hrs.

 

Build your site using your keywords and good quality unique content. Don't forget to sue h1 and h2. Do on page optimization and off page optimization. It is a lot of work to get it right but well worth it.

 

Somehow I do not believe your customers reach top spots. I have seen your services, and they are old stuff.

 

I have slowly built my site up to first page results by adding content. If you ask me its a slow process and all about content over anything else

 

Do the Onpage optimization perfectly, because it is very helpful to rank website without off page (Few keywords rank).

 

That it is not the overnight success....So after starting doing seo you should have patience...

 

Best thing I know about SEO? How effective backlinking is when its done right!

 

Keyword as url in .com....That makes the power to get effortless ranking...

 

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the term used to describe the tricks of the trade that maximize your website-rank in the search engines' results. The higher your rank, the more traffic your site will receive.

 

I think you can learn everything there is to learn about on-page SEO by studying almost any Wikipedia page. It's all there - including a bunch of links out to other helpful sites. Google loves to see helpful links out no matter what the gurus tell you.

 

That nothing about it is easy...

and content is NOT king.

 

Keyword Based Domain, Keyword Enrich Content with consistency along with backlinks can make your site KING

 

Fresh and unique contents on regular bases? All the best!

 

in my opinion, quality content is king. you don't see a keyord-only with no quality content site at top for long

 

in MY opinion, GOOGLE is king. And she shows you the secrets every time you enter a search> The answers are right in front of your face each time you click.

 

1. SEO friendly web
2. domain older 2 years
3. Good Host ( IP must be from country which you target )
4.Unique content
5. proper done titles
6 S/B and articles submission
That's all
Do not buy links!!!

 

IMO, what I have found is very important is that the same keywords relating to the site be used in the domain, content (h1, h2), page titles, and file name's also doesn't hurt to use related words that have the same meaning as one word but is used to replace your main keywords for image and text link alt and title tags. Also be sure to keep those keywords in mind and use them when submitting links or buying links or directory listings.

Another thing I have noticed is that when I place a link on one of my oldest sites(5+ years old) which is indexed in dozens and dozens of search engines the site is picked up sometimes in 1-2 days with good placement on pages 1-3 on Google. So a good idea may be to hunt down the older sites because they have had a longer time in the field and have most likely been picked up by many, many search engines.