SEO FAQ

[marketingstudent]

Hey guys experts,experienced and all plz share your tips and tricks for SEO

1) Basics Of SEO

2) Directory Submission - Where to find good directories for free/Do you have a list to share

3) Relevant forum posting -- is it fine to use our url in signature?If yes upto what extent? someone said somewhere in this forum itself coz of excessive use of forum signatures his site got sandboxed

4) Article submission -- Good sites for submitting your articles/Do share if you have a list of such sites

5) If i have multiple domains on the same hosting account is it fine to add backlinking of my own domains under friends site

[co-creator]

1) basics of SEO - you have to do some on-page AND off-page SEO. Some say off-page is 75% of the battle... others say its more like 50%. Just google these terms, you'll learn a lot. Every time I had a question like that, I just googled it and found tons and tons of information. On-page SEO: do things like include your keyword in the title of your webpage and in your URL and at least once somewhere on your page. Don't overdo it though because you might accidently be keyword-stuffing and you could get penalized by the big G for that. I think having the keyword in the title is one of the most important on-page factors. Look up more factors on google.
Off-page: One of the most important things you can do is link building. Get tons and tons of backlinks to the webpage you are trying to optimize and use your keyword as the anchor text.

2)Directory submissions - a lot of people say it's mostly a waste of your time. The only places that are worth submitting to are places like DMOZ(google it). It may be difficult to get a listing in there though but you can do it.

3)I think every forum has different rules when it comes to signatures so make sure you read up on each forum's rules and also I don't know whether or not you can get sandboxed for over-using a signature in forums

4) The places I start to send my articles to are Ezinearticles.com, then Goarticles.com, and finally article(s?)dashboard.com(i forget if it has an s or not)... The reason behind this is that you get some good backlinks that help you in the search engine results. Others recommend you send your article to as many places as you can using software like Brad Callen's article submitter(it's free)

5) I think it should be fine... but I'm not entirely sure...

hope this helps!

Good luck!

[marketingstudent]

Great thanks

the sites you told for article submission,do we have to write new articles??or can we submit articles already posted on our site

Visited ezine few days back and saw an article seems we have to write new articles for them

[marketingstudent]

Still waiting for more replies from SEO experts mainly for backlinking and forum signature query

[aaron_nimocks]

Originally Posted by marketingstudent

2) Directory Submission - Where to find good directories for free/Do you have a list to share

Digitalpoint forums directory announcement sub forum. Reason is they are brand new directories and will approve very quick. Yes most directories wont end up being a GOOD directory but there really isn't such a thing as a good general directory anymore anyways. With directory listings it is a numbers game.

Originally Posted by marketingstudent

3) Relevant forum posting - someone said somewhere in this forum itself coz of excessive use of forum signatures his site got sandboxed

That's BS.

[khenmhike]

One of the major foundation of SEO is making your content unique. Focus on this one and you'll have a great advantage specially in writing an article. Submitting articles to some good article submission sites are good, but if your article's content is not unique and relevant, your article is useless. I suggest you to focus first on this one.

[marketingstudent]

That's BS.??Whats BS