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College student and beginner. I need advice

by Amir736
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Hey guys,
I hope everyone is doing well. I am a 19 year old college student about to start my sophomore year. I have been interested in SEO and have been studying it for the past year but have not actually put anything I learned to the test yet. I have been wanting to do SEO and probably make some side income while in college and hopefully by the time graduation comes, I can have a good decent income coming in. I would really appreciate any friendly advice and what would be the best thing a beginner could do to get the ball rolling. I have about 500 dollars to begin, is that enough to start? I have been thinking about ranking for local SEO terms in the medical field and while targeting suburbs, and offer to rent out the page for maybe 100-200 dollars a month. I also have thought about buying a starter site off flippa from a reputable seller and try to apply some SEO to the site and drive converting traffic to them. Most of these starter sites are websites that have just been registered the day before the listing, so no work has been done to them on the SEO side of things. I do plan on doing client SEO in the future, as soon as I get first hand experience in ranking. Let me know what you guys think and what would be your advice for a beginner.
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  • Profile picture of the author Faisal-Rehman
    Here are 2 great resources to help you create a winning SEO strategy

    1. http://backlinko.com/link-building

    2. How to Effectively Build an SEO Campaign From The Ground Up
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  • Profile picture of the author Vincentbre
    First off, welcome to the SEO world. Now, the technical side of things are easy enough to find so I'll focus on some tips that I have learned doing SEO. One, aim for quality links from the get-go. A lot of folks will tell you that this would be next to impossible, but I've seen it done. Next is to avoid slipping with the quality of your content as much as possible if ever you're thinking of adding content. Seriously, do that one too many times and traffic slips. You might also want to try boosting your traffic as soon as you've got everything setup just for the sake of momentum. Ultimatewebtraffc and fiverr are popular choices these days. Let me know if you need more.
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    • Profile picture of the author Amir736
      Originally Posted by Faisal-Rehman View Post

      Here are 2 great resources to help you create a winning SEO strategy

      1. Link Building for SEO: The Definitive Guide

      2. How to Effectively Build an SEO Campaign From The Ground Up
      Originally Posted by Vincentbre View Post

      First off, welcome to the SEO world. Now, the technical side of things are easy enough to find so I'll focus on some tips that I have learned doing SEO. One, aim for quality links from the get-go. A lot of folks will tell you that this would be next to impossible, but I've seen it done. Next is to avoid slipping with the quality of your content as much as possible if ever you're thinking of adding content. Seriously, do that one too many times and traffic slips. You might also want to try boosting your traffic as soon as you've got everything setup just for the sake of momentum. Ultimatewebtraffc and fiverr are popular choices these days. Let me know if you need more.
      Greatly appreciate the advice guys! And will keep that in mind Vincentbre
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    I know guys who are trying to pull of something similar, and there's sometimes other WF users with similar intentions. The problem: the site you're trying to rank tends to be boilerplate-type empty site, with generic text from Wikipedia or other sources. It's of course possible to rank such a site, but it tends to be fairly hard. I'm not saying that Google would necessarily penalize your site, but if the algorithm works correctly that stuff should stay out of the first result pages.

    Decent content, passable site, and some backlinks. That's a start.
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    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author Criks
    To keep in the trend of being a student, learn yourself the HTML-Basics. And learn to do on-page SEO (img titles/meta's/h1/h2/h3's/setup browsercaching/.htaccess etc) That way you got yourself a very firm/stable start even if you start with a boilerplate website. And you go beyond the standard qualification of a SEO'er if you have some technical skills aswell. Always good on your resume!
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  • Profile picture of the author hrishivardhan
    Learn On-page activities first by learning basics of HTML, CSS. Learn about Schema, robots,sitemaps, How google bots are working?
    Try to find out ways that make your website perfect for SEO. Also, if you have interest in writing, learn how to write a good content, try some topic on which you can write your own words. First try with 300 words content, then 500, 1000 etc.
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