Best SEO practices 2015

razib

9 years ago

really good tips for WP sites!

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mushmush

9 years ago

I will come to this again and try it.

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SEO-Dave

9 years ago

If these are such awesome 2015 SEO tips, maybe you can show a site or two you've used these technique on that's ranking high in Google in 6 months?

I won't rip the entire list apart, about half of it is rubbish. I'll pick an easy one, what does this achieve SEO wise:

Publish on forums accepting signature (your signature will be a link to your website) - At least 2 posts per day

Consider pretty much all links from forums are nofollow: in case you didn't know nofollow links pass no direct SEO benefit AKA SEO wise forum links per se are not a good use of time.

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yukon

Banned 9 years ago

The epitome of Warrior Forum.

Spin the articles and share them into slideshare as PDFs

Classic.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Crap tips thorough. I always try to avoid these.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Crap tips thorough. I always try to avoid these.

I am really curious to know what you are really doing for SEO, can you share please?

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

I am really curious to know what you are really doing for SEO, can you share please?

I don't use my given name on this account, but I'm not even being pseudonymous. If you want to know who I am, click the damn forum links. I have no sig because I'm not here to sell you anything unlike many users. Pretty shocking, isn't it?

Pointless attack on someone's credibility is pointless. Arguments and SEO tips survive on their own merit.

Originally Posted by moimeme

Thanks to all for this discussion, I started this post to collect best SEO practices from experts, but instead it turned into a discussion on who is better than the others,

See the previous quote, and it's clear as day who's directly and solely responsible for that. Grow up, will you please?

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Banned 9 years ago

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO-Dave

If these are such awesome 2015 SEO tips, maybe you can show a site or two you've used these technique on that's ranking high in Google in 6 months?

I won't rip the entire list apart, about half of it is rubbish. I'll pick an easy one, what does this achieve SEO wise:

Consider pretty much all links from forums are nofollow: in case you didn't know nofollow links pass no direct SEO benefit AKA SEO wise forum links per se are not a good use of time.

David

These tips are the summary of what Ive found in many SEO articles/courses, if you have something better please share, because your post didn't added any value to this forum.

For your information, links should be a mix of follow and nofollow, besides these links will bring trafic to your website which is another criteria that will improve your ranking, the more trafic you have the more authority you gain, more authority means better ranking, better ranking means more trafic...

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Crap tips thorough. I always try to avoid these.

Please show us your extraordinary tips, I am sure you have nothing more, just talking to appear like an expert is not enough.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

Please show us your extraordinary tips, I am sure you have nothing more, just talking to appear like an expert is not enough.

I'm constantly posting something that may or may not be helpful. Use the search.

If you don't like these well-deserved comments maybe you should try using less hyperbolical title next time. Under-promise and over-deliver, not the other way around.

There's about 5-6 decent (but fairly obvious) tips on this list. The rest are either meaningless or questionable. Some have nothing to do with SEO.

You also talk about six months and results. Where did you pull that from?

"Best practices". Come on.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

I'm constantly posting something that may or may not be helpful. Use the search.

If you don't like these well-deserved comments maybe you should try using less hyperbolical title next time. Under-promise and over-deliver, not the other way around.

There's about 5-6 decent (but fairly obvious) tips on this list. The rest are either meaningless or questionable. Some have nothing to do with SEO.

You also talk about six months and results. Where did you pull that from?

"Best practices". Come on.

6 months is based on some tests I performed, doing this, not all the list, helped me ranking the website for many keywords, you may require more time depending on the niche and competition.

Do you have some other tips to share?

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SEO-Dave

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

These tips are the summary of what Ive found in many SEO articles/courses, if you have something better please share, because your post didn't added any value to this forum.

Debunking bad SEO advice has as much value as posting good SEO tips.

For your information, links should be a mix of follow and nofollow, besides these links will bring trafic to your website which is another criteria that will improve your ranking, the more trafic you have the more authority you gain, more authority means better ranking, better ranking means more trafic...

Erm, which is why I was clear to state nofollow links have no DIRECT SEO value. Though you are wrong why nofollow links have indirect SEO value, you seriously believe higher traffic per se = authority? Why not use Fiver and buy lots of crappy traffic to increase authority??? That's right, higher traffic per se does not improve SEO directly.

If I ran down the street shouting please search Google for Stallion Responsive Theme and add a link to it, and a few people actually linked to my site that would be indirect SEO value. Just like nofollow links can have indirect SEO value, because someone could click the nofollow link and decide to link to the content with a follow link. Can make the same argument for email spamming, should we add spamming millions of email addresses as an SEO technique for 2015?

When spending time building backlinks, unless you have unlimited time, put it into building follow links, not nofollow links.

Please show us your extraordinary tips, I am sure you have nothing more, just talking to appear like an expert is not enough.

You mean I should be posting links to the SEO tutorial (sig link) I've been working on for over 10 years.

I prefer to debunk bad SEO advice instead. Can I suggest spending some time learning/practicing SEO before copying and pasting bad SEO advice on forums as SEO facts.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO-Dave

Debunking bad SEO advice has as much value as posting good SEO tips.

Erm, which is why I was clear to state nofollow links have no DIRECT SEO value. Though you are wrong why nofollow links have indirect SEO value, you seriously believe higher traffic per se = authority? Why not use Fiver and buy lots of crappy traffic to increase authority??? That's right, higher traffic per se does not improve SEO directly.

If I ran down the street shouting please search Google for Stallion Responsive Theme and add a link to it, and a few people actually linked to my site that would be indirect SEO value. Just like nofollow links can have indirect SEO value, because someone could click the nofollow link and decide to link to the content with a follow link. Can make the same argument for email spamming, should we add spamming millions of email addresses as an SEO technique for 2015?

When spending time building backlinks, unless you have unlimited time, put it into building follow links, not nofollow links.

You mean I should be posting links to the SEO tutorial (sig link) I've been working on for over 10 years.

I prefer to debunk bad SEO advice instead. Can I suggest spending some time learning/practicing SEO before copying and pasting bad SEO advice on forums as SEO facts.

David

What I see is just words without any added value...for your information authority is based on hundreds of criteria, trafic is one of them, and yes bringing trafic will help building it. Google is not stupid to consider fiverr trafic for some days as relevant to build authority, if you don't understand I think you've watsed your 10 years considering yourself as SEO expert.

Instead of wasting everybody's time pretending being a SEO expert, you can post some useful tips.

Back to your "expert" statement for unfollow links, the ultimate purpose of Google is to assess whether a website receives naturals links or not, a website that receives natural links is an indicator of good quality content, natural links cannot be just follow links or unfollow links, they should be both.

I suggest you come down to earth and stop considering your self as an expert, go through some trainings and courses, and even if you were SEO expert 10 years ago, today you are very far from being one.

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

For your information, links should be a mix of follow and nofollow, besides these links will bring trafic to your website which is another criteria that will improve your ranking, the more trafic you have the more authority you gain, more authority means better ranking, better ranking means more trafic...

That is a big fat freaking lie. There is zero need to ever create a nofollow link for a webpage. Zero.

Also, traffic does not bring authority.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

That is a big fat freaking lie. There is zero need to ever create a nofollow link for a webpage. Zero.

Also, traffic does not bring authority.

The ultimate objective of Google is to assess whether a website receives naturals links or not, a website that receives natural links is an indicator of good quality content, natural links cannot be just follow links or unfollow links, they should be both.

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

The ultimate objective of Google is to assess whether a website receives naturals links or not, a website that receives natural links is an indicator of good quality content, natural links cannot be just follow links or unfollow links, they should be both.

Like I said, you are totally wrong.

I have never created a nofollow link in any of my link building campaigns. (Outside of a few Wikipedia links when appropriate).

A site will get a few nofollow links without you ever doing a thing from some of the scraper sites out there. So if you really think a site needs nofollow links to rank well (even though all evidence out there suggests otherwise), you do not have to create any. The site will get some on its own.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Like I said, you are totally wrong.

I have never created a nofollow link in any of my link building campaigns. (Outside of a few Wikipedia links when appropriate).

A site will get a few nofollow links without you ever doing a thing from some of the scraper sites out there. So if you really think a site needs nofollow links to rank well (even though all evidence out there suggests otherwise), you do not have to create any. The site will get some on its own.

"all evidence out there suggests otherwise" the evidence I have goes inline with what I've said...I guess both of us are wrong or both of us are right.

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

"all evidence out there suggests otherwise" the evidence I have goes inline with what I've said...I guess both of us are wrong or both of us are right.

No. I am right. You are wrong. There is no grey area here.

You can find plenty of pages ranking just fine with no evidence of nofollow links pointing at them. You can try it yourself.

Like I said though, if you believe the nofollow myth, you don't have to do anything. Most sites will attract nofollow links on their own. It's stupid to waste time building them.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

And these tips...

Go against everything you just said about "natural" links. There is nothing natural about this spam.

For 99% of websites out there, this is a really bad idea. You are just going to end up with a lot of junk on your site. Not to mention, most people following this silly advice have no concept of a good internal linking structure and are just going to screw up whatever internal link structure they have by doing this.

If these are silly advices why not share good advices? And these are not silly advices, average maybe but they work, maybe there are better advices, I am looking for them, this is why I published this post, if you have better tips just share.

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

No. I am right. You are wrong. There is no grey area here.

You can find plenty of pages ranking just fine with no evidence of nofollow links pointing at them. You can try it yourself.

Like I said though, if you believe the nofollow myth, you don't have to do anything. Most sites will attract nofollow links on their own. It's stupid to waste time building them.

Unless you have access to all websites on the internet, and know how all of them rank you cannot come to this conclusion, I see websites ranked with more nofollow links than follow links, anyway its a free world.

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

The ultimate objective of Google is to assess whether a website receives naturals links or not, a website that receives natural links is an indicator of good quality content, natural links cannot be just follow links or unfollow links, they should be both.

And these tips...

- Put this content into power point and export it as videos, put 2-3 videos per week into your youtube channel

- Put the slides used for the videos in slideshare with backlinks to your website (2-3 per week)

- Spin the articles and share them into slideshare as PDFs

Go against everything you just said about "natural" links. There is nothing natural about this spam.

Create good content minimum 400 words and publish 1 article per day

For 99% of websites out there, this is a really bad idea. You are just going to end up with a lot of junk on your site. Not to mention, most people following this silly advice have no concept of a good internal linking structure and are just going to screw up whatever internal link structure they have by doing this.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

And these tips...

Go against everything you just said about "natural" links. There is nothing natural about this spam.

For 99% of websites out there, this is a really bad idea. You are just going to end up with a lot of junk on your site. Not to mention, most people following this silly advice have no concept of a good internal linking structure and are just going to screw up whatever internal link structure they have by doing this.

This is a very wrong conclusion. I published 460 quality articles in one website in 2 months (meaning an average of 8 articles a day) in 2013, the website receives 1500 uniques visits a day 92% from google, the niche is very competitive, for the main keyword there are 9,290,000 pages with exact search "keyword.
Whatever you say about this point, nothing worth experience, because at the end of the day no one knows how google really works.

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

This is a very wrong conclusion. I published 460 articles in one website in 2 months (meaning an average of 8 articles a day) in 2013, the website receives 1500 uniques visits a day 92% from google, the niche is very competitive, for the main keyword there are 9,290,000 pages with exact search "keyword.
Whatever you say about this point, nothing worth experience, because at the end of the day no one knows how google really works.

1,500 a day. Probably could be doing a lot more with good link structure and less content to be honest.

Depends on the niche, but outside of world news, politics, celebrity gossip, etc. there are very few niches where there is any reason to publish 8 articles a day.

As for the 9,290,000 pages in the Google index, you do realize that has NOTHING to do with the level of competition in the SERP, right? I mean literally zero to do with how competitive the keyword is.

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johnben1444

9 years ago

You just proved you don't have a damn clue on how SEO works...

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moimeme 9 years ago

Originally Posted by johnben1444

You just proved you don't have a damn clue on how SEO works...

I never pretended being an expert, if you read my post again you will see that this is summary of what is said in courses available on the net and in the end of my post I asked people, you for example the amazing SEO expert, to give us some expert tips that everybody on this forum can use.
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gokulmaba

9 years ago

Very good tips

I will try with my Wordpress. Thanks for share.

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Slade556

9 years ago

Some of the tips are useful, but they are nothing new, some website owners have been applying them for years now. And I said some because the others are not really helpful in terms of SEO.

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SilentEagle

9 years ago

Helpful post.Thanks.

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1SEOcom

9 years ago

1 Article Per Day... Where did you come up with this, yes fresh content is great but remember Quality over Quantity.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Originally Posted by 1SEOcom

1 Article Per Day... Where did you come up with this, yes fresh content is great but remember Quality over Quantity.

I published 460 quality articles in one website in 2 months (meaning an average of 8 articles a day) in 2013, the website receives 1500 uniques visits a day 92% from google, the niche is very competitive, for the main keyword there are 9,290,000 pages with exact search "keyword.

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moimeme

9 years ago

Thanks to all for this discussion, I started this post to collect best SEO practices from experts, but instead it turned into a discussion on who is better than the others, never pretended being a SEO expert otherwise I won't be here, the so called "expert" didn't shared anything useful to anyone.

Ciao

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

Thanks to all for this discussion, I started this post to collect best SEO practices from experts, but instead it turned into a discussion on who is better than the others, never pretended being a SEO expert otherwise I won't be here, the so called "expert" didn't shared anything useful to anyone.

Ciao

Actually, I shared a lot. I pointed out the myths that keep getting repeated over and over again in places like this forum.

That is great that it has worked for you so far.

Like I said though, a more strategic approach to content creation versus just blasting out a post (or 8) every single day can be much more effective.

Also, the linking methods you suggested (spinning articles, blasting videos, forum spam, etc.) are perfect examples of stuff that get people in trouble with Penguin.

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SEO-Dave

9 years ago

Originally Posted by moimeme

Thanks to all for this discussion, I started this post to collect best SEO practices from experts, but instead it turned into a discussion on who is better than the others, never pretended being a SEO expert otherwise I won't be here, the so called "expert" didn't shared anything useful to anyone.

Ciao

You stated the list as the best practices, not "I've read these things online, are they true/false?".

Had you had that approach and be open to changing your entrenched viewpoint, maybe, just maybe you'd learn some valuable SEO techniques.

Clearly you don't have a lot of experience with SEO/websites, so you should be open to learning from those with significantly more experience than you.

Tell you what I'll go discussion mode.

Explain to me why you think installing the All In One SEO Plugin vs not using any SEO plugin is good SEO advice, specifically what do you think the plugin does SEO wise that can't be achieved with the TwentyFifteen theme?

To be clear only interested in direct SEO benefits, don't come back with it has social media features since sharing on social media sites has no direct SEO value.

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nettiapina 9 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO-Dave

Tell you what I'll go discussion mode.

I want to rant a little, so I'll do this too.

OP or anyone else who subscribes to the "traffic is a Google signal" hypothesis. How do you propose that this works?

Google Analytics is installed on many sites, but there seems to be no indication that Google is using it for this kind of purpose. Not only that, but it'd be unethical for them to force people use their tools in that manner, and they'd be opening their search to a new can of worms ("traffic manipulation").

If the traffic comes from Google's web properties they at least have a way to track the clicks, directions and bounces. Nobody seems to know wether they actually use that data. My guess would be that it's a yes for traffic to/from Goole Search, but that it's not a very strong signal. I know SEO experts who'd disagree.

I think Matt Cutts has said something about this topic (search vs. analytics), but don't quote me on that. Please use Google instead.

If you see increased traffic and increased rankings, there could very well be a correlation. Maybe some of those visitors actually liked your stuff and posted it somewhere. In that case traffic would not be the cause for increased rankings.
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Hudson White

9 years ago

-Install All in one SEO plugin (for wordpress) - I would suggest install Yoast SEO plugin

- Spin the articles and share them into slideshare as PDFs - I would say use the content of your blogs/articles for ideas in infographics

- Use Semrush to identify your competiors backlinks - you can use ahrefs as well

- Identify among your competitors backlinks which accepts guest posts, contact them, write for them better articles than your competitors. - don't write for competitors rather write for some good niche sites

- Publish on forums accepting signature (your signature will be a link to your website) - At least 2 posts per day - It is an old tactic which is no more working, as it's also sort of spam. better try to give resolution to others

- Use local business listings site for promoting your business locally

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amutechnologies

9 years ago

Thanks for providing with us informative information.

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