whats the best search engine optimization tip?

i am new and i want to learn from those who have been around for a while. what is or are the best things that you have done for search engine optimization? thank you so much in advance.

 

The best tip I can give you is to have a good read through this forum. You will learn a lot by just reading other peoples questions and answers, I know I have.

 

Quit your day job and start 25 blogs.

 

Read a good book on SEO FIRST to gain an understanding of the fundamentals. It's not likely some total idiot who knows almost nothing about SEO is going to get published. Even if you read Search Engine Optimization All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies by Bruce Clay (another respected SEO), it will help you a LOT once you start trolling the SEO forums.

Then spend time reading posts here, webmasterworld.com, Google's Webmaster Help Forums, and other SEO forums. The trick is wading through all of the BS that unskilled webmasters post THINKING they understand SEO, and being able to identify which information is good and which is total BS.

Then start experimenting with your own sites... There is no teacher like experience.

 

article submissions, social bookmarking

 

seO IS too difficult?

 

1) Use Google AdWords' keyword tool to find the most popular keywords related to your website and your beat

2) Use key words and phrases in your HTML title tag

Once you've identified your keywords and phrases, use them in the most importance place where search engines will consider them. The search engines give the content of the title tag the greatest weight of any single element on the page, so your most appropriate key phrases better be there, Sullivan said.

If you are using a content management system [CMS], know which input field will populate the title tag (usually the headline). Use the resources above to determine which words ought to make it into that headline. Imagine yourself as a reader, and ask what terms you would use on Google if you were searching for this story. Those terms had better be in your head, and page title.

Also, be sure to use powerful, popular keywords in the title, description and tags of your videos you post on YouTube and elsewhere online.

3) Write an engaging meta description tag for each page

Sullivan, and others, find little SEO use for the plethora of descriptive meta tags that can be included in the head of a webpage. But the description tag still provides good value, as Google uses it to create the short blurb that it displays under a page's title on its search engine results pages [SERPs]. A sharp description can help lure a visitor to your site over others, including ones that rank ahead of you on the page.

4) Switch from AP style to "SEO style" on references in body copy

Keyword repetition and density on the page still play a role in where you end up in the SERPs (though not nearly as much as in the pre-Google era.) You can help yourself, therefore, by moving away from rigid AP style rules on second references and place names to more SEO-friendly use of full names on some (but not all) subsequent references within a story.

5) Use keywords in your URLs whenever possible

The search engines value the use of keywords in URLs, as well. If you've got one in your site's domain, great. But keywords in the directory path or file name of the URL provide a boost, as well. Rather than use numbers or nonsense text in article URLs, opt for a CMS that uses real words, ideally keywords for which readers will be searching.

Sullivan also recommends that you configure your CMS to use hyphens instead of underscores to separate keywords in your URLs.

6) Never publish the same article under two or more URLs on your site

Duplicate content penalties have killed news websites' positions in the SERPs in the past. You shouldn't publish the same article at multiple URLs on your site. It's fine to reference one piece with multiple tags and from multiple index pages, but they should all point to the same, single URL when referencing that story or blog post.

Much of Google's decision on where to rank a page in the SERPs is based upon the number and quality of links to that individual page. Concentrate the in-bound links to one story on a single URL. Posting that content on multiple webpage addresses simply dilutes the power of all those links across those multiple URLs.

7) Create standing pages as linkbait for popular ongoing stories and issues

This extends the point above. In an ideal world, you would concentrate all the inbound links to a story you are following to a single URL, driving it to the top of the SERPs for all related searches. But that's tough in a traditional news publishing environment, where each day brings a new article, with a new URL. Staff-written summary wikis and well-crafted index pages can provide a standing URL that others can link when referencing your coverage of a particular person or issue, boosting the search engine popularity of your work.

8) Never retire or change page URLs without providing a 301 redirect

Search engines respond to a variety of responses from a Web server when a search engine requests a URL that no longer exists. A "404" or page not found response is the worst response your server can deliver. It should, instead provide a 301 redirect, which tells the search engine to which new URL it should transfer the old URL's SERPs position. Here's how to do a 301 redirect in several CMSs and scripting languages.

9) Use bit.ly or other URL shorteners that use 301 redirects and provide click stats when posting to Twitter

When you are using URL shorteners, you want to make sure that your site is getting the search engine "credit" for that link, and not the shortener itself. Sullivan suggested bit.ly as one of several services that use 301 redirects, and after trying it, I'm impressed with the click-through statistics it tracks for each URL I shortened through it.

10) Link to other great, original content and invite other publishers to link to yours

The last advice might be the most important. Great on-page SEO ultimately will do little to move your pages up in the SERPs if other websites are not linking to you. Use your social media and offline promotional skills to let other influential online news publishers know about your work, and invite them to link to it. Tweet your posts and write them with enough flair that others will want to retweet.

 

this one should be very good stuff. Im stupid and ive read this one more than once...
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet

 

Read the SeoBook by Aaron Wall

 

thank you all for taking the time to help me. i am already doing some of your advices like, using keywords for url instead of numbers or whatever. i don't really know much about this stuff yet, but i read a lot on forums and other blogs, and having wp as my blogging platform makes it easier for me to apply some things that i read and find out that are important like the keyword in url and etc.
ill try to apply the advice given here. thank you so much and please keep it coming.

 

Search engine optimization (SEO) is largely based on the ability to identify the perfect gameplan for the website in question. Keyword research is probably most important, but there is no one best tip as every website and niche can be different. You can focus on backlinks or you can focus on hubpages but you better know your SEO inside and out if you're dealing with a client.

 

You need good content and plenty of it, and back links, good meta tags etc

 

MOST important is fresh content and quality links.

 

There's no such thing. Depends on what you are doing. Just read and apply mate!!!

 

The best search engine optimization tip from my point of view would be, Building quality backlinks with keywords as anchor text

 

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Gud luck friend

 

Firstly do on-page optimization of website.Write Unique Content for your website.Then Start Link building and the best one is article submission.

 

Learn to use longtail keywords. Shoot for hundreds or thousands of longtails. Scoring well with 50 longtail keywords and getting 500 visitors a day from them is easier than scoring well with one premiere keyword and getting the same amount of visitors.

 

Sounds silly but the best SEO trick I think is to have a really unique good site. If you do this right your half way their.

 

what you need is to join a seo contest. that way you will really try to learn more of it and optimize your own site instead for the contest