The How to’s of Search Engine Optimization

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• Thanks for an awesome post here about SEO and the tips to get ranked. It's definitely not always easy to rank well and it pretty much always seems to be a moving target as the rules are constantly changing.

  Looking forward to seeing your upcoming reviews on the new backlinks options and to see what you discover with the new content spinner. Keeping my fingers crossed that you discover some gems that will make our work that much better. Thanks again!

  • Thank you Judy, looking forward to all the new tools and tips. 

• Thanks for this informative article. I am a new blogger and while my website is starting to rank, I am always on the lookout for different tools to further assist with ranking. I am definitely going to look into the backlinks tool and will look out for your reviews on those companies. Thanks again!

  • Chris great job on your ranking. Yes the search engines are always changing their algorithms in tanking sites. Each search engine is a bit different. Of course most people aim for being ranked on Google which receives most of the traffic on the web, but they are not the only engine out there. 

• Great article about search engine optimization! I realize how important it is to get found on google in order to have a successful website. What are your thoughts about paid ads? Also is it important to submit your website to search engines as well? I always see so many search engines and don't know where to start..

  • Nikki yes you can definitely submit your site to get indexed. There are no guarantees as to the time that your site with be indexed. As far as paid Ads, they might work well for the low hanging fruit keywords, but it could be more costly than publishing keyword rich content. 

    Something that I have also noticed is that the search engines do their updates and rankings and ratings tend to change almost every 2 weeks, so your expenses in ads might not show results for a bit of time. 

• You listed some great resources here! I am really interested in trying out the Spyfu to creep on my competitors' keywords. Have you used the Spyfu personally? You presented this info in a clear easy to understand way. I also liked that you listed off what i could expect to read in the article at the top with the numbered list,  so thank you!

  • Ginger I have used Spyfu and it is great. You can see exactly what words your competitors rank. It is a great tool. 

• At first I thought I wouldn't learn anything but while reading I realize how informative and educating this post is. And I confess its really worth the time used in reading it. I am intrested in learning more on how to make a site gain better ranking. I hope to see more of this post again to increase my knowledge. 

  • Thank you Dane. I will be sharing more reviews about tools and their pros and cons to help people understand what to expect from each tool.

• Hi Judy

  I have to say that I enjoyed your post a lot.  I am not as far along in my website, so you have provided me with a lot of tools to persue in the future.   I am still overwhelmed with the Search Engine Optimization, but like everything it takes time to understand.  You have certainly explained a lot of new tools for me.

  I am going to explore Mangools and see if there is something there that I can utilize.  As for backlinks you have explained them very well.  I wasn't really sure what they were until now.

  Thank you!

  Wanda

  • Thank you Wanda. I am happy to hear it is clear and to the point in helping others. This is what I was looking for as a roadmap in the beginning

• When I was planning to have my own website fornaffiliate marketing and content writing, I didn't know how important it is to do Search Engine Optimization. I was clueless about how keyword search is important to be incorporated in your website content. Now that I am pretty much knowledgeable about it, I'm still eager to learn and explore on tools and software that can help me to increase my website traffic . I like to try some of the SEO tools you recommended and see for myself how I can use it to my advantage. Thanks for sharing it with us. 

  • I agree MissusB in the beginning most people dont know how important it to create traffic if you want to use it for business. My first site was simply me blogging and no clue about SEO rankings and that is why I want to share to help others as well.

• This was an extremely helpful article on search engine optimization (SEO) with explanations of the terms and how to put them into practice using some of the common tools that are available to help you along the way. Using good SEO can really help you get more traffic that costs nothing.

  If you put the strategy into use for all of the content that you create, over time a significant portion of your traffic can come to you at no additional cost and your acquisition costs can come down a lot for your leads and customers. That means more money in your pocket as you are not spending as much money on paid traffic. 

  Since so many people are using WordPress as the framework and the themes that work with WordPress, what do you think of the plugins that are available to help with the SEO for your content? There are several out there, and I hear good and bad about each, I would be curious as to what you think on this subject. 

  • Dave, you know you are true there are many SEO plugins for Wordpress that I did not mention and I will likely add to the post. Some tools tend to restructure the themes and can cause issues with loading. I might do a separate Wordpress SEO plugin post to help people that use Wordpress in particular. Great ideas thank you

• I never even knew what SERP meant until now. Thanks for that tidbit of information. I have been meaning to get around to marketing my blog post, today you've lit the fire to get going on it. You seem pretty efficient with your methods. How did you learn all this as well do you help others with their site, I know I need to get some help for mine. 

  I looked at Jaaxy and they have a free trial for which got me looking at some amazing keywords.

  • Jagi all this knowledge came from time studying and doing research online. If you want to succeed you have to put in the research to make it heppen. It doesn't just happen organically now you have to work with everyone that is optimizing themselves as well. There is enough on the internet to make it happen for everyone with the proper work.

• Hi your passive income online,

  Thanks for sharing about how to boost the traffic of our websites, there are so many details and I could say it helps a lot for a new beginner like me.

  I do have some questions on the tools that you used for SEO since there are many, do you recommend any of them the most suitable for beginners? Is it Jaaxy since it's the first one I read on the list? :-)

  Cheers,

  Matt

  • Matt,  

       I tried to put lots of options with the services they offer because people might want to target one area more than the other.