Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization

[Kitara716]

This guide provides a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.

An Excellent article by Rand at SEOMOZ

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php

[marketraisecorp]

Constructing a new website isn't that tough.All one has to do is to assemble different modules and arrange them in a symmetrical format.But it is these modules which if exploited to its fullest reaps big rewards and there lies every chances that your website is a big hit or draw amongst regular net browsers.After all there is no point in having a new website that looks beautiful and is unknown to the internet community unless you take some active steps to promote it,or else all your efforts will be futile and useless.There are different aspects that improves the prospects of your website via seo.Lets begin with the design you give to your website.For most Web sites, the home page acts primarily as a navigation doorway to the rest of your site. Your site's real content appears on the pages deeper in your site.

Imagine that your homepage has a poor design.Automatically the visitor losses all interest and vacates the website immediately.A POOR DESIGN ON YOUR WEBSITE WILL NEVER GET YOU VISITORS EVEN IF IT CONTAINS DATA THAT IS RICH WITH CONTENT.On the other hand if the homepage has a good design it entices the visitor to explore the contents of your website to the fullest.Search engines like content rich pages, so try to optimize your deep pages for keywords that match their content. That's better than trying to make your home page cover too much ground.

The next important thing one has to keep in mind the keywords that one is putting for his website.Proper keyword selection will always provide good search results for your website.Want to increase traffic, build credibility, improve your search engine rankings and get people talking about your business--at no cost? Then open up your word processor, and start writing. By determining your best search keywords, writing an article that includes those keywords and getting it distributed online, you'll be putting yourself on the radar of people looking for what you provide.

Write a keyword-rich article that relates to what you sell, then give it away to other sites--for free. Believe it or not, this is one of the best ways to drive a steady stream of eager customers to your site.

Why does it work? Well, people basically come online for one of two reasons: to check their e-mail or to look for information. Sure, some of them end up making purchases, but this isn't generally the reason they log on. They want the answer to a question or the solution to a problem--and you can provide that in a short article.

Now another important aspect of seo is link building.With proper keywords you get categorized and then you can start sending in link exchange requests to websites in that category and once the website appreciates your page they accept to link you and you start getting track back links.These track back links promotes your website to other people's website.For example if I have a website that is not yet popular and is linked to a website that is commonly visited,then the link to that particular website that points to mine has some chances of being clicked and I get visitors.

The next important thing is content.If the content is strong and is catering to the people's taste then you automatically gather a targeted traffic.No hazing around unnecessarily the content should be to the point and it should contain every thing that is content related,so that your visitors are satisfied and should not feel the need to look for other alternatives.Your traffic should be solely yours.It is upto you to personalize and save them to your click list.

Be generous don't hesitate to allow people to borrow from your article or website.All you have to do is to ask them to refer you as the original creator in websites where your content will be used.Ask them to put in a link that points to your website.

Last but not the least be unique.There are millions of websites OFFERING THE SAME CONTENT TO VIEWERS AND BROWSERS.One should not offer the same old stale stuff.Use proper promotional methods and tempt the browsers with good offers.Try being unique and a cut above the rest.

After all the final SEO results for your website will be the average traffic,no of hits and time spent by visitors on your website and the pagerank.

So what is keeping you waiting get up and simply get down to work .Following this article as a guideline one can never fail.For SEO Newbies you could use this as a referral and for seo veterans add in your comments if I have missed out on any thing.

[brandrocker]

Could not locate the article but rather the link contains categorically organised step-by-step SEO guide.
For me SEO must start from the very beginning of your website planning. You have to use META, ALT,TITLE, LINK-TEXT, LINK-URL(to some extent) and H1/H2/H3 Tags carefully to include keyphrases. Apart from that you need to get quality keyword rich inbound links pointing to your web pages.
Above everything else, you need to take care of your visitors as well. You just can't afford to do whatever you need to do for the sake of SEO, if it looks too odd. Visitors are the key to the success of your website. So, do not just let them go away.

[ericajoieake]

it really help all the newbie seo, btw good post!

[iceshards]

That's a good SEO ebook.

By the way you can also read seofaststart by Dan Thies. It is a good e-book too.

[Lovely]

Thanks for sharing the article...
Cheers