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Zee. · 1 year ago

Nice post again Mike... I think we can all be frank and say that SEO really isn't rocket science.The majority of it can be learnt via trial & error and experience. All the points are bang on thought, looking forward to more from you & camp Louis.

mfruchter · 1 year ago

Zee,

Many thanks for the kind words. I really have been enjoying your blogging material, and FriendFeed activity. There is a never a dull moment, and I look forward to more of it.

Mike McEvoy · 1 year ago

Mike,

Thanks for your excellent list. I've been in the tech world for over 25 years but only started blogging a few months ago. I've spent a lot of time on a large number of blogs and read fairly extensively about how to make a blog sucessful. Out of all that I have read or experienced regarding improving search engine visbility your list is the most concise and accurate that I have found. There is obviously a lot more detail that stands behind each item on your list, but the high level overview is spot-on from my experience.

In terms of the "devil being in the detail" I would have to say that Item #2 "Establish quality links" is one of the most time consuming but important tasks. Plus its one of those Catch-22 type of situations. Everybody wants to link to well known sites or blogs. Getting someone to link to an unknown site or blog is another story.

There are a thousand (a million?) businesses out there who will promise you a thousand quality(?) inbound links for $49.95, but are those the links that would really fall under the term "quality." Any additonal thoughts you might have to share on being successful in the area of link development?

MikeM

mfruchter · 1 year ago

Mike,

Thank you. I have not personally used any of these link building services. I have heard some horror stories though, and would do some Google homework, if you decided to use a specific service. Save the $49.95 and use that to register some additional domains. They should be as keyword specific as possible. The domains you eventually want to use as feeder-sites to build links and drive more traffic. The hub you create depends of course what type of site you are marketing. There are plenty of other organic methods for building inbound links. One I would start with is blogs. Use these to establish your hub, in addition to your new domain names. Publishing frequent blog content will help with natural link building. Are you currently aggregating any of your content? I will follow up with some additional thoughts via email.

Andy Sowards · 1 year ago

Nice post! Some great tips in here that some people overlook, This will help lots of people tighten up their SEO Process. Thanks again!

Venkatakrishna Nalamothu · 1 year ago

.com domain is waste if your content is related to a particuclar country. I selected .in domain for my blog on Indian stock markets which helped me in getting good Google traffic. Good article otherwise.

CraigK · 1 year ago

Great post about SEO. For someone who is new to the game it is difficult to understand the concepts of SEO practices and how they fit in. Thanks for giving a basic list to learn and branch off of.

Craig
www.budgetpulse.com

sam casuncad · 1 year ago

I like what you have here as actually being one of the top and earliest SEOs in the world being there since the Alta Vista days where many of the veterans vie for position in the search. I'd like to ad an additional pointer that you should have discussed though not that I want to dictate on you but more on helping others realize that are really a lot of great things you can do to a website than just your content and domain and inbound and outbound links.

I actually want to know how you do your inter linking strategies as I have heard there are a lot of speculations that inter linking is always bad idea. What do you personally think about this or do you have any good experiences about it at all from interlink anchor texts to frequency and habit of inter linking?

communicatrix · 1 year ago

I read another guest post you'd written for Louis, went to your blog, came back here. After all that, I have just one question: how is it possible you have less than 300 subscribers? This is an injustice of staggering proportions. I'm going to do my part to rectify that immediately; will see how I can spread the word farther (further? cursed English grammar!) as I move forward.

In the meantime, thank you. Writing this good stuff in a way that normal people can understand?

No, wait...THANK YOU.

There. That's better.

Now more, please!

mfruchter · 1 year ago

Communicatrix,

Thank you. You are too kind.:) I try to write as beginner friendly as possible. I'm really glad you enjoyed the post, and hope you gain or make visibility improvements as a result of it. I have not been blogging long, just a few months short of a year. My exposure has been limited, and thus less RSS subscribers. It's because of people like Louis Gray that I have been given the opportunity to use a bigger platform to broadcast off.

Best Regards,

Mike Fruchter

matthew hunt · 1 year ago

That is a great common sense approach to SEO. If folks just committed to your above list they would see great success. The main point is consistency. If you don't keep linking and writing content for your web property why should the search engines care, right?

20-100 · 11 months ago

Propps to the editor of this text.....So much to learn about it.
Knowledge is something to be shared....Keep sharing what you love around you.

Warrior from Karma !

randolphquan · 8 months ago

Great post mike, I'm going to print this out and paste it on my wall. I love how clear and concise this post is.

ravm · 4 months ago

Thanks for the tips on improve search engine rankings and visibility. Here are some cool SEO videos you and your readers may find relevant to the topic. Many of them discuss the key points you make in your article.

dilfadzil · 3 weeks ago

Useful info for me, but need passion to go all over the tips. For the idea of using social media sites to spread our blog posts, most blogger know about this. However, which social media should we focus on? twitter, stumble upon, digg, delecious,.... for sure we cannot effort to run all these as sometimes it was time consuming. Btw, i like this post. Its remind me the steps for establish good blog. Some of its need to be used as a good practice awhile blogging. Thumbs up !!!