What should An SEO expert know?

What do you think what are the core things which a person known as SEO Expert must know and what things he must be able to do?
When we say a person is an SEO Expert that do that means he is only expert in onsite seo or it includes offsite SEO as well.
Similarly how will you consider an SEO expert who is also good with social media marketing and building relationships.

 

1. Create a good web site with good content first 2. Link Building 3. Marketing therefore both on and off site.

 

Would you please elaborate?

 

I believe its not what you know, but it's experience. As I continue to improve my SEO skills, I am constantly adding new content to my website, building backlinks, driving traffic, and reading up on SEO techniques in forums like this one. If you are trying to become a "SEO expert" it is best to learn from the users around you, and to realize what users are actually giving you good advice. I created a SEO article here: Starter Guide to Search Engine Optimization which might be able to help you out.

 

Well the first is the full forum of SEO ... lol !!!
The SEO expert should know how to do deal with the google updates which are frequently happening now-a-days. He should have a complete knowledge of what new happening in the online world.

Not thoroughly but he should be able to atleast monitor the offsite SEO and guide in a proper direction.

Building relationships is the important factor of any SEO expert, so that he can easily promote his new assignment to the networking friends he/she might have already established. He should never stop innovating new ideas and implementing them day-by-day.

 

I agree that social media marketing and building relationships are very important. Not one single SEO expert knows everything. They can share ideas and help each other out.

 

Seo expert need to now how to increase traffic )))That's his main job )

 

I have reading a lot of stuff on "what things seo expert must know" and there are different opinion according to the different seo analysts. Some thinks that an seo expert should know developing a website and the technologies like php, mysql and css to make changes in the website as he want.
Some thinks that the keyword analysis and making the different title, description is enough for onsite seo and he should very well know how to do link building.
Suppose you are looking to hire an seo expert what skills you will be expecting from him?

 

A seo expert knows how to create a back link. what is keyword and how to research it. This is the main terms for a seo.

 

first thing is to know about Onpage.

next page is to know about keywords and their competition.

next is on how to target your keywords.

 

SEO expert should know HTML, CSS, Web development, How Search Engine Works?, Keyword Details, understanding on-page as well as off-page factor, basic knowledge on social networking, link building method etc.

 

An SEO expert would know not to ask these kinds of questions.

 

He should know how to rank a website on targeted keywords.

 

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I think a good SEO expert will be concerned about conversion and increasing ROI by getting rankings for keywords that convert.

 

You don't necessarily have to be a site designer to be an SEO (as mentioned above) just how to do on site SEO too.

OP, and expert SEO should know how to do onsite SEO which includes keyword research and how to properly place the keywords into your site. ie. H tags and what keyword density to use in the pages text. They should also know how to use those keywords in your sites meta tags. ie. page titles, meta tags and URL structure.
One should know all the of the most current methods for obtaining back links as well. What back linking methods still work in the current day and what doesn't - according to what Google likes.
They usually have a list of partners that they buy,sale and trade links that they have good working relationships with with as well.
Social networking builds limited amounts of low value links. It really IMO is only good for bringing traffic.

 

Get rankings for clients/own site ... anything else is BS ...

 

The customer could care less about technique. The customer wants results, and if a so called SEO Expert can get there...then I guess they are worthy of the term expert.

 

Absolutely. SEO is new but complex, and it's not a science (yet) because only Google knows what makes sites rank. All we can do is guess.

 

Heh That's true too.