Free SEO Course – Suggestions?
I’ve recently started my first website and am keen on learning about SEO, but don’t know where to start. I’ve looked on various forum and websites, but they are all rather complex (and make many assumptions).
Can anyone recommend a good free SEO course that can outline the basics and get me started?
Hi,
Seomoz is a good resource, as is search engine land.
Basically SEO is about attaining a ranking in the search engines. One of the ways (emphasis on the ONE), is to generate one way inbound links, which I detail below:
Try to steer clear of back link exchange sites and reciprocal links. These will just take up your time and don’t offer a great deal of value unless you can get a reciprocal link from a high page rank authority site that is.
What you are looking for is one way links, that’s links from one site pointing to your own site. Think of a link as a vote, the more votes you generate the better your chances of rising up the search engines results. It’s not all about the number of links though, generating quality, relevant links is key.
Moving on from this, try to generate this type of link from a site with at least a page rank of two. You can easily tell the page rank of a site by downloading the page rank tool bar, available on most search engines.
Methods:
Try researching your competitors. Use Link diagnosis or Yahoo site explorer. Tyr to generate links from sites pointing to your competitors sites.
Blog posts. Find relevant blogs, read the posts and comments and join in the conversation by adding something interesting, leave your thoughts, offer help, and leave a link pointing to your site with your key words as the anchor text.
Article submission: Write articles on your subject, post to article directories – leaving your link in the resource box.
Free directory submission. Generate a list of free web directories; submit your site for a free link.
Dmoz: Although not as powerful as it once was, submit your site to the open directory project.
Forums. Can be time consuming as you really need to become ‘part of the community’ before being able to generate a link, but well worth the effort.
These are just a few of the ‘free’ methods. Keep doing your research and remember it takes time and consistent effort.
Happy link hunting!
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Link dozer review, bonus try first two months with 50% discount
http://www.klemenstibilj.name/link-dozer-discount-review-%E2%80%93-link-dozer-by-kristina-saric/, For promoting your product online Link Dozer will employ tactics of link building strategies, that point to your site, from as many locations as possible. Through its strategies, that you learn inside of its memberhip site, you ll be able to manipulate content in the way, that it will be shown to google like natural behavioural among people discussing various things on their blogs.
When it comes to backlinking , ie. off site optimatization, there is only one thing that is really important to your rankings. And Link dozer does exactly that, it takes care of your highly unique content, which is stated to be 60% or more of your SEO. As Google is stating, content is the king.
You should go with guidelines to that and you should do fine. Show respect to Google and its search engine will love you. Of course G. is changing and developing his algorithems all the time, that is because, he is in need for quallity content to provide it to his readers.
So if you want to rank higher you must be always one step ahead of G.`s development and have an approach which G. Is not yet following, that means you must leave no footprints of your system.
Link dozer in first place is SEO educational place, at least for me, and regarding to what I`ve read inside the forum, it was really an eye opening, even for most experienced members in the field.
Besides that LD is content management tool and as well content production tool. Once properly prepared article, it can create you large quantities of highly unique and readable contents, which generates you links and traffic to your site.
Ld is sustained of its own blog network, which has strictly rules about only allowing high quality content to be posted on. So that through time, the value of blog network linking to your site grows bigger and becomes authority in Google s eyes.
Regarding automation and Link dozer, I must dissapoint you since this is not a push button solution. LD is build in a way that allowes you to have a clean record of everything you perform inside. Of course you create acounts half automatically, verify them and use those accounts to post your content to article directories, to its blog network and social media 2.0 sites.
When talking about Link Dozer i cant not to mention, its developer, Kristina Saric, originaly coming from Croatia,. She is true, »no hype« SEO specialist and programer, her insight, knowledge, and expertise regarding SEO is “mind boggling”. It feels like she doesnt sleep at all; besides her developing work of LD, she is reachable in forum and her support by email is second to none.
And since all the best things come in limited editions, Link Dozer is limited to only 300 members. Cant tell if this is scarcity tactic of Kristina or no, but as I had a chance to get a feel of her, I wouldnt say so.
Anyway, if you are thinking about joining in, you better act fast, cause now in the moment of writing, there is quite over 200 members allready inside gaining incredible knowledge of Kristina and her system.
If you think you are ready for long term SEO success, you can join our Link Dozer community through my affiliate link.
As I am aware of pretty high subscription price of 97 USD, and fact that there is no money back guarantee and quite big learning curve of using LD, I am offering you to try it for half less for the first 2 months, that is 50 % off the regular price.
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Duration : 0:0:51
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Basic Organic Gardening Course
Basic Organic Gardening Course
A PhD in Horticulture and former Cooperative Extension Specialist explains in clear, simple terms how to grow organic vegetables. Includes 5 videos, PDF transcripts, vegetable planting chart, materials lists, links to irrigation resources and climate maps
Basic Organic Gardening Course
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Search Engine (SEO) Basics
SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization“, and is essentially the process of designing, building, and promoting a website with the search engines in mind. The purpose is to rank well in the search engines, which will then in turn provide you with organic search engine traffic.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important if you ever want to gain decent rankings in the search engine. Even though the word “SEO” can sound terribly intimidating, actually applying it to your blog is no where near as hard as it sounds. All you have to do is invest some initial time into learning the basics, and soon your blog will be better than 90% of the others out there, simply because you have SEO.
SEO encompasses not only the initial design of a website, but the promotion as well. Throughout the course of this series, we will be examining the various components of strong SEO.
Duration : 0:3:51
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Why Use Geographically Targeting in your SEO Campaigns!
Why use geographical-targeting in SEO?
Searchers are changing the way they search for information to find relevant results for specified location. Many sites which are currently indexed don’t have relevant information to help search engines in finding them ‘relevant’ to the location term, often because they don’t have their targeted geographic location for marketing mentioned on their site.
By including the targeted geographic location in the keywords used with an SEO campaign and the on page optimization done on a site, it is possible to have a dramatic and positive increase in top results, traffic, and sales.
It is very simple to include geographically-targeted terms and phrases with the keyphrases used for search engine optimisation and this will go a long way in increasing the revenue a website can generate.
Possible Disadvantages?
Alienation of future customers is always possible. If a searcher in the US is searching for simply “Search Engine Marketing” and your website happened to show up with Search Engine Marketing UK in its title, it is more than likely that the user will skip the website because it is targeting the UK.
This can also be seen as a positive point, as it actually helps in qualifying your traffic even more. It stopped a user visiting your website that would have found out that your services are UK specific and that they could not order their requirements from your website anyway.
Of course this could also be a negative aspect. If you ‘mainly’ target the UK but also want to offer your services to overseas clients, this may result in the loss of a potential sale.
Should geographical-targeting be used?
The answer depends only on the target audience or geographical location of the products or services offered.
Should you offer your products or services to a specific area or country, or you intend to only deal with local audience then yes, you should certainly be geographically-targeting your search engine optimization campaigns to increase traffic and sales.
The second situation can be that some of your products or services are available to many areas while others are not. In this instance simply use selective geographical-targeted optimization with each of the products or services sections.
And, if your target audience is not bounded by geographical regions, such as online services or products that have worldwide delivery, then more than likely geographical targeted optimization is not appropriate.
The key is that geographically-targeted SEO campaign can make a huge difference to a websites success. It is up to you to decide if it is an appropriate option for the products and services your website offers.
Dinesh Gupta
http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/why-use-geographically-targeting-in-your-seo-campaigns-96052.html
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How Can Selecting an SEO Partner?
Every company offering SEO related services promises results but few deliver on that promise. To be the exception when it comes to delivering on that promise a SEO partner must take an approach that ensures quality results that meet YOUR business objectives.
Here’s what to look for:
First, they should demonstrate that they understand your business need.
Just giving you a questionnaire is not enough. At the beginning of any engagement, they should take the time to understand your business objectives. Your business is unique and a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach rarely actually fits every business. By taking the time to understand your business they should be able to tailor their services to best meet your business objectives as well as your budget.
Second, they should use a proven model of optimization that offers ‘realistic’ expectations.
Ignore marketing hype like “Rank #1 in Google in 24 hours” Search engines do not make public the process or rules they use to crawl, rank pages or index website pages. Further the processes and rules change often as the search engines attempt to increase the value of search results. Of course if your keyword phrase is “one of a kind white unicorns hand made by a grandmother in Peoria” then you actually have a good shot of # 1 ranking if anyone actually ever searched for that. Otherwise, it takes time and lots of work to get high rankings.
To compensate for this lack of public information, an SEO partner should rely on a proven model to ‘uncover’ the rules.
1. Analyze – Determine where your pages rank today. From this you can learn what may be ‘right’ about these higher ranking that can be applied to other pages.
2. Target – Every web site is unique. Rather than a set of ‘canned’ optimization recommendations they should determine the right optimization options for your website. To accomplish this they should use a range of methods:
• Expert Review. While many SEO partners have great in-house experience they should also turn to other experts who study search engines to determine the most likely ‘rules’ used to determine how pages are indexed and ranked.
• Best Practices. They should look at the top ranking competitors in your space to determine how they optimized their pages, for more details visit to www.the20seotools.com particularly those aspects that could influence page rankings.
• Learn as they Optimize. They should consider implementing changes to larger sites in stages. Start by optimizing your highest value pages first, then, based on the results modify the optimization approach if needed before continuing.
• It’s More than Google. While organic search results are a key portion of any optimization effort, they should know that it takes much more to get quality traffic to your website. They should be able to help you go beyond the search engines to find your new traffic.
3. Optimize – They should be able to provide the detailed information you need to understand what needs to be done to your website. They should also be willing to let you make the changes rather than forcing you to allow them to make the changes at substantial per hour fees.
4. Analyze – SEO is not a one-time effort. Your business changes, your competitors change, your prospects and customers change and the search engines refine rules. This means you will need to periodically review your ranking and re-optimize your site. You should expect your SEO partner to provide ‘follow-ups’ to ensure that you got results.
Third, their approach should be comprehensive and include all the aspects that bring traffic to your website, not just search engines. Make sure they will provide
• Detailed Site Analysis – You need to understand from where your site is starting.
• Keyword Analysis – All keywords are not created equal. They should help you understand which ones to use, and as importantly, which ones not to use.
• Page Structure Recommendations – Content, headers, keyword placement, it all matters.
• Engine Submissions – Each engine is unique. ‘Submit a link’ programs are not effective.
• Paid Search – The internet is like any business, for more details visit to www.sitemap-makers.com sometimes ‘free’ isn’t worth even that.
• Reciprocal Links – As with keywords, all links are not created equally.
Selecting a SEO partner can be intimidating. With all the marketing hype, it is easy to get fooled. In the end SEO is like any other business service you use. You should be able to understand the benefits, and limitations, it offers and make an informed decision about how to invest your money.
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Don’t Let Your SEO Company Scam You! How to avoid it?
Of course, you know that You’re extremely smart! Or maybe you’re just lucky…You really found my video because you were researching how to not Let Your SEO Company Scam You
I’m glad you stopped by the video. Are you curious about web development companies that might rip people off? Many agencies are ethical and fair. Learn how to find a credible, reliable developer agency.
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Don’t Let Your SEO Company Scam You
Duration : 0:2:0
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Network Marketing and SEO [Part 3 of 5]
http://www.mikaylasway.com This video offers a quick guide on how to use on-page SEO factors to optimize your webpages. It’s part 3 of 5of this video course, so be sure to got to www.MikaylasWay.com for the rest of the series and more information.
Duration : 0:10:53
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Rapid Mass Traffic | Didn’t Use Adwords, SEO, Article Writing, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking
http://brandtop.org/seo-2 — Rapid Mass Traffic
I Didn’t Use Adwords, SEO, Article Writing, Media Buys, Blogging, Classified Ads, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Link Building, Joint Venture Partners, eMail Drops, Adswaps Or Any Of The ‘Traditional’ Traffic Generating Techniques Everyone Is Talking About!
Once You Download This System You’ll Begin To Generate A Motherload of Targeted Traffic With An Endless Rush Of Cash-Paying Customers Almost IMMEDIATELY!
If you’re ‘trying’ to make money online … grass-root, beginner, intermediate or advanced … throw away ALL those courses, manuals, CDs and seminar DVDs you’ve bought over the years and read very carefully
I can’t help you if you want the latest SEO, Adwords, Blogging, Social Networking (or any of the above) so-called killer techniques
For more information, please visit our website:
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Duration : 0:1:59
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SEO and Internet Marketing Services
Promoting your New Jersey Company in the global market that exists today requires having extensive knowledge in several key areas. Internet marketing, website development, search engine optimization, link building, branding, online advertising, and PPC management, being just a few. for more detail go to:www.greatseosecrets.com.Some very good internet resources exist that can give you at least a beginner’s insight into what these are, and how companies might use them to promote themselves well in the highly competitive arena of business. However, will that be enough to lock in high-visibility, sales, and profit potential for your company? Not likely even with the simplest or smallest of businesses models out there today.
To beat out your competitors, your company needs a large conglomerate of consumers viewing your products and services. For more detail go to: www.offline-promotion.com. Furthermore, those viewers need to consider your company the leading New Jersey-based resource for whatever business niche your company encompasses. This is certainly not an assignment for someone having only a tentative understanding about the key areas of business promoting to take on. Tack on the fact that the strategies for the implementation of these are in a constant state of evolution, and you have a massive job needing expert skill to pull off.
Acquiring the skills needed would mean several years of full-time study and the opportunity to practice what you learned without placing your company’s reputation and financial and other assets at risk. Unless you are looking for a career change, in which case, a career in seo, internet marketing, website, and business promoting is in high demand, outsource this work to an established firm for the seo and other services that you need for promoting your company for superior success.
There are many firms employing experts in providing a company such as yours with the website, search engine optimization, internet marketing, online advertising, and other services that will give it the visibility and profitability it deserves. The internet has allowed seo companies from various locations to offer their business promoting services to those needing them. You might however, wish to deal with a seo firm headquartered in New Jersey, or that works extensively with other companies and contacts situated here. Who better to serve the professional promoting needs of a New Jersey company, than an individual or team of experts that have intimate knowledge about the business climate in your region?
For many companies local consumers are the ones contributing to the bulk of their sales and profits. This is because many people prefer shopping at and purchasing from companies that are local to them. This may be because they want to be able to drive to your company to see items that your company has advertised in person. Or merely that it would be easier for them to resolve conflicts with a company that is close by rather than with a company whose location is thousands or more miles away. At any rate, marketing your company to the consumers of New Jersey will be most successful when properly channeled to attract high volume interest from locals. If you have the knack to do this yourself, it would be more cost and labor effective to do it yourself. However to get optimal results swiftly, you should consider hiring a seo/marketing company to provide the services that will enable your company to lure locals into doing business with your company.
They say that if you construct it, they will come. Of course, they often fail to add that how you construct it does make a difference. Professional website, search engine optimization, internet marketing, advertising online, and other services could mean the difference between scant interest and moneymaking for your company, and hordes of people along with sales and profits coming in.
Roos Andy
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/seo-and-internet-marketing-services-707143.html
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