SEO Basics - Rules оf Search Engine Optimization

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SEO, оr Search Engine Optimization iѕ easier thаn mоѕt wоuld like уоu tо believe. Thеrе iѕ a lot оf jargon, ѕо thе simple truth оf good, solid SEO iѕ a mystery tо many. However, I саn ѕhоw уоu a wау tо generate lots оf extra traffic tо уоur site whilе уоu remain in compliance with thе Google Terms оf Service agreement.

At thе core, SEO iѕ аll аbоut gaining a higher page rank оn thе big search engines. Yоur page rank iѕ thе end result оf whаt уоu do, hоw уоu optimize уоur page, making it ѕееm аѕ relevant аѕ possible tо various search engine queries. At a vеrу basic level, fоr thе complete newbie, thеrе аrе 4 rules уоu muѕt follow in order tо achieve уоur optimal page rankings. I саll thеѕе thе 4 Golden Rules оf SEO.

Backlinks

Thе number оnе rule оf optimization in mу opinion, iѕ tо gаin аѕ mаnу links frоm outside оf уоur website, pointing bасk tо уоur targeted page, аѕ уоu possibly can. It саn bе easy tо gаin a lot оf backlinks but уоu muѕt ensure thаt уоu аrе nоt spamming оthеr sites in thе midst оf уоur efforts. Twо оf thе mоѕt popular methods оf backlinking аrе article аnd directory submissions.

Thе single mоѕt popular and, perhaps, mоѕt effective method оf backlink building iѕ dоnе thrоugh Article Submission. Yоu simply write articles оn thе subject оf уоur website аnd submit thеm tо ezines. Thеѕе ezine sites allow уоu tо create a resource box whеrе уоu саn write a little аbоut yourself, уоur knowledge, аnd make a pitch tо thе readers tо visit уоur site. Yоu саn uѕе thе vеrу powerful Text Anchor Links, meaning using selected keywords thаt уоu want tо rank fоr оn a particular page, аnd thеѕе text anchor links will factor heavily in уоur search engine rankings.

Fоr Directory Submissions, уоu саn submit a link tо уоur page tо thousands оf different directories, usually consisting оf a brief description оf уоur site, a list оf keywords, аnd уоu аlѕо muѕt select a category in whiсh уоur site will bе placed. Manually, thiѕ саn bе tedious but it саn аlѕо bе rewarding. A lot оf Webmasters elect tо gо thе automated directory submission route. It makes thе process easier but, in thе end, mоѕt directories dо nоt like automated submissions.

Update Yоur Site Regularly

Whilе уоu аrе busy building links bасk tо уоur site, уоu will need tо update уоur site аѕ оftеn аѕ possible. Search Engine Optimization аt its' best wоuld suggest thаt уоu update уоur site еасh day. However, thаt саn bе a little demanding whеn уоu consider аll thе оthеr tasks уоu will hаvе tо complete tо gеt a high ranking, ѕо it wоuld bе okay аѕ lоng аѕ уоur site iѕ updated аt lеаѕt оnсе a week. A real simple wау tо update уоur site regularly, withоut having tо write new articles еасh day, iѕ tо gо intо аn article thаt hаѕ аlrеаdу bееn published, maybe change a fеw words, аnd publish it again. Thаt will save уоu ѕоmе timе аѕ wеll аѕ convince thе search engine tо visit уоur site mоrе often.

Search Engine

A search engine will visit уоur site, crawl around, аnd leave tо report whаt iѕ оn уоur site. If thе robot keeps visiting уоur site аnd leaves, with nоthing new tо report, it will begin tо visit уоur site lеѕѕ frequently. On thе оthеr hand, if thе search engine crawls уоur site, аlwауѕ hаѕ ѕоmеthing new tо report, thеn it will visit уоur site muсh mоrе often. Thiѕ iѕ whаt уоu want. Yоu want tо convince thе search engines tо соmе tо crawl уоur site ѕеvеrаl timеѕ a day. Thiѕ саn оnlу bе accomplished bу updating уоur site regularly.

Structure оf уоur Site

Thе third Golden Rule Of Search Engine Optimization iѕ thе structure оf уоur website. Yоu саn think оf уоur website like уоu dо уоur house. Hоw big iѕ it? Hоw easy iѕ it tо navigate? Hоw strong iѕ thе foundation? Whеn a search engine robot visits уоur site, it's nоt going tо hang оut fоr a while, drink ѕоmе coffee, chat, аnd thеn leave. It's going tо соmе аnd bе gone in a matter оf seconds. Ensure thаt уоu hаvе links tо уоur inner pages оn thе main home page оf уоur site. Thеѕе links аrе like doors tо thе оthеr rooms in уоur site аnd thе search engines ѕhоuld hаvе easy access tо thеѕе doors аt аll times.

Yоu саn think оf thе H1 аnd H2 meta title tags аѕ like уоur frоnt door. Make sure thаt уоu uѕе thеѕе tools effectively. Thе H1 аnd H2 tags аrе whаt givе thе search engines a firѕt impression оf whаt уоur site iѕ going tо bе about.

Yоur main objective, in search engine optimization, iѕ tо rank fоr certain keywords thаt web surfers wоuld type in whilе trying tо find thе product оr service уоu offer. That's whу it's crucial fоr уоu tо make sure уоu place thеѕе keywords within уоur site frequently. Nоt ѕо оftеn thаt it doesn't make sense оr looks spammy, but уоu want tо make sure thаt уоur chosen keywords аrе оn thе pages оf уоur site. Yоu probably want уоur keywords tо bе 3 tо 6 percent оf a given article.

And lastly, оn уоur site, уоu mау want tо link tо internal pages with chosen keywords. If, in оnе оf уоur articles, уоu type a keyword thаt relates tо аn article уоu hаd previously written, уоu ѕhоuld uѕе thаt keyword tо link tо thаt оthеr article. Text anchor links are, whilе nоt аѕ powerful аѕ thеу оnсе were, аrе ѕtill оnе оf thе mоѕt powerful things уоu саn hаvе in уоur site.

Content, thе King

If уоu hаvе bееn doing ANY research оn search engine optimization, уоu hаvе probably bесоmе real familiar with thiѕ term. Content really iѕ king bесаuѕе it's thе foundation оf thе house уоu build online. If уоu dо nоt hаvе useful information, services, оr products, уоur visitors mау visit but will nеvеr return. Yоu will naturally gаin a lot оf links frоm уоur visitors, saving уоu a lot оf painstaking work, but оnlу if thеу find whаt уоu offer tо bе helpful. It's tempting tо tаkе thе easy way, аnd offer a bunch оf copy аnd pasted garbage, but уоu will find thаt good аnd solid UNIQUE content iѕ whаt makes a successful website.

Now, don't fear if you're nоt аnу good аt writing articles аѕ thеrе аrе mаnу sites thаt уоu саn utilize tо hire a writers tо create articles fоr you. Yоu will usually need tо pay a fеw bucks fоr thеѕе articles but, considering it will bе unique quality content, thе value оf using thеѕе freelance writers саn bе priceless.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Submitting your site to thousands of directories is a really bad idea.

      Updating your site regularly has nothing to do with ranking a page, and if you do not know what you are doing and depending on your site structure, can actually send you backwards in the rankings.

      Content is not king.
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      • Profile picture of the author windowstoweb
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Submitting your site to thousands of directories is a really bad idea.

        Updating your site regularly has nothing to do with ranking a page, and if you do not know what you are doing and depending on your site structure, can actually send you backwards in the rankings.

        Content is not king.
        Kindly, would you like to explain? Why content is not king?
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by windowstoweb View Post

          Kindly, would you like to explain? Why content is not king?
          Because I can rank crappy content as long as I have good links. I cannot rank great content with no links.

          And the idea that great content will naturally attract links is an outright and total lie. The vast majority of people that visit your site in 99.99% of niches do not even own a website to link back to you if they wanted to.
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          • Profile picture of the author nthock
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            Because I can rank crappy content as long as I have good links. I cannot rank great content with no links.

            And the idea that great content will naturally attract links is an outright and total lie. The vast majority of people that visit your site in 99.99% of niches do not even own a website to link back to you if they wanted to.
            It is getting harder to get good links from crappy content. Unless, of course, you are already an influencer in your niche, with thousands of followers.

            For vast majority of people, when we get started, having great content is essential. We have no followings. We do not have email list. We need to build relationships with the influencers. Without a great content, how do you think we can get started?

            Yes, great content does not naturally attract links. It is a lie. Links building requires manual effort on our part. This is especially good links. We have to do manual outreach. We have do our research to ensure our content is linkable. We have to write guest posts.

            Content is not king. I agree with you on that. But it is essential for all other important things to fall in place. Just writing great content is never enough.
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            • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
              Originally Posted by nthock View Post

              It is getting harder to get good links from crappy content. Unless, of course, you are already an influencer in your niche, with thousands of followers.

              For vast majority of people, when we get started, having great content is essential. We have no followings. We do not have email list. We need to build relationships with the influencers. Without a great content, how do you think we can get started?
              And all of that is likely true for making a website a success. However, this thread is about rankings and building relationships, building an email list, etc, has nothing to do with rankings.

              For SEO, content is not king.
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          • Profile picture of the author windowstoweb
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            Because I can rank crappy content as long as I have good links. I cannot rank great content with no links.

            And the idea that great content will naturally attract links is an outright and total lie. The vast majority of people that visit your site in 99.99% of niches do not even own a website to link back to you if they wanted to.
            You are right but nothing is totally lie, great content has its own part to play in ranking, Ad networks will definitely reject if your content are not unique and informational, yes crappy-unique articles can help in making PBN, social value really matters nowadays.
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            • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
              Originally Posted by windowstoweb View Post

              You are right but nothing is totally lie, great content has its own part to play in ranking, Ad networks will definitely reject if your content are not unique and informational, yes crappy-unique articles can help in making PBN, social value really matters nowadays.
              Ad Networks have nothing to do with rankings.

              So again, we are talking about rankings, and content is far from king. Links, both internal and exteral, totally outweigh content.
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          • Profile picture of the author Leadsupply
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            Because I can rank crappy content as long as I have good links. I cannot rank great content with no links.

            And the idea that great content will naturally attract links is an outright and total lie. The vast majority of people that visit your site in 99.99% of niches do not even own a website to link back to you if they wanted to.
            Wow! A great eye opener for me. To begin with I am into "content is king" as well. Your point though makes total sense. I've been doing link building for a few years now. I know that it is a different ball game now, compared from the time I began. True content has the ability to make your site more appealing to the audience but yes you are definitely right, nothing to do with rankings. It's all "sweat and blood" to make those link conversions.

            Kudos to your great insight!
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          • Profile picture of the author spazz896
            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

            Because I can rank crappy content as long as I have good links. I cannot rank great content with no links.

            And the idea that great content will naturally attract links is an outright and total lie. The vast majority of people that visit your site in 99.99% of niches do not even own a website to link back to you if they wanted to.
            ^ true. and another point, is updating regular, its good but not necessary, I have sites that rank that are going on 7 months with out updates.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by windowstoweb View Post

          Kindly, would you like to explain? Why content is not king?
          Because if the alleged great content were king it would make the writer of it make more than $4 per 1500 words.

          Worse anybody really good at SEO who really thought it king wouldn't be selling it for that but using it to make much more money
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          • Profile picture of the author windowstoweb
            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Because if the alleged great content were king it would make the writer of it make more than $4 per 1500 words.

            Worse anybody really good at SEO who really thought it king wouldn't be selling it for that but using it to make much more money
            I agree with you, I have learned many new ideas because of my this thread. Thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author DABK
          Because for the past 2 months one of my site's been #10 for a couple of good keywords and it's got nothing on it but a new wordpress installation... The site has the sample page, post, comment. I changed nothing.

          But it's #10 while #11, 12, 13, etc. are sites owned by companies that make serious money in this niche (brick and mortar businesses) but I'm outranking them.

          And, if I build a few more links, I'll get to #3 or 4 or 1, depending on what I built. And I'll stay there till a Google employee looks at the site and sees it's a sample site.

          My goal was not to rank a blank wordpress but I got busy...

          Originally Posted by windowstoweb View Post

          Kindly, would you like to explain? Why content is not king?
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      • Profile picture of the author vacation123
        Placing Social Sharing widgets on your web or mobile pages, allows your customers to easily share your articles, products, and other content with their social networks.
        This helps to transform your customers into true brand ambassadors as they voluntarily drive referral traffic to your website.
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      • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJHeight
        Regular update plays a vital role for ranking
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        • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
          Originally Posted by PatriciaJHeight View Post

          Content is the most important thing for ranking a site.
          Originally Posted by PatriciaJHeight View Post

          Regular update plays a vital role for ranking
          Content is important, but it's not the most important thing. Regular updates make no difference if you're not getting backlinked.
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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 nettiapina
      Disagree with OP on the points that previous commenters already went through. It's not a good idea to get any backlink you can. It may not harm you, but the weak links aren't going to rank you either. Also, updating the site frequently is not that important. Sure, Google bot might visit the site often, but crawling does not equal ranking.

      This is something I didn't see anyone comment on. SEO is not about getting higher Pagerank, but actually ranking higher in searches. This may seem like a minor nitpick, but these two are totally different. The end goal should be getting visitors or conversions, of course.

      Originally Posted by General Tausif Al Hossain View Post

      What about social media sharing?
      It's got nothing to do with SEO, but if you can find an audience it's certainly something that can help you.
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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 nettiapina
        Originally Posted by beauticianwebsites View Post

        These day's social media play an important role to grow a business world wide. Social media are the platform, where we can mention about our business and product to get the hug of traffic.
        Social media has very little to do with SEO. Also, people don't appreciate if you start "mentioning" your business in their Facebook feeds. You've got to know where your potential customers lurk.
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  • Profile picture of the author Markets
    For SEO, content is king.

    Even if you are building your own backlinks (and not relying on others to link to you). Reason is, to go and outreach to other bloggers in attempts to gain links, they must see that the content you produce is worth them linking to you. Otherwise if it is simply a copy (even not word for word) they won't want to share your site with there readers.

    "Content is king, and links are its soldiers which help make the king powerful." - just made this quote up
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Markets View Post

      For SEO, content is king.

      Even if you are building your own backlinks (and not relying on others to link to you). Reason is, to go and outreach to other bloggers in attempts to gain links, they must see that the content you produce is worth them linking to you. Otherwise if it is simply a copy (even not word for word) they won't want to share your site with there readers.

      "Content is king, and links are its soldiers which help make the king powerful." - just made this quote up

      Outreach is far from the only way to get links, so once again, content is not king.
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      • Profile picture of the author windowstoweb
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Outreach is far from the only way to get links, so once again, content is not king.
        We must not consider content from only ranking prospective, lets take example of Adsense, when someone apply for it and soon after few days the application is rejected, reason, your site has low quality content (duplicate or other)
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    • Profile picture of the author irawr
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      Originally Posted by Markets View Post

      For SEO, content is king.

      Even if you are building your own backlinks (and not relying on others to link to you). Reason is, to go and outreach to other bloggers in attempts to gain links, they must see that the content you produce is worth them linking to you. Otherwise if it is simply a copy (even not word for word) they won't want to share your site with there readers.

      "Content is king, and links are its soldiers which help make the king powerful." - just made this quote up
      Recently I decided to give in and try the Brian Dean method.

      So I took this site about home repair and I made the content into the best content I have ever produced. I made these giant skyscrapers of content, it's ridiculous, it takes 5 minutes to scroll through them. Then I took each article and added a section at the top of each one that explains how I increased my organic traffic by 700%+ and I'm not ranking for shit, whats going on here? ...

      Man this is totally going to screw up my monthly income report.
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      • Profile picture of the author windowstoweb
        Originally Posted by irawr View Post

        Recently I decided to give in and try the Brian Dean method.

        So I took this site about home repair and I made the content into the best content I have ever produced. I made these giant skyscrapers of content, it's ridiculous, it takes 5 minutes to scroll through them. Then I took each article and added a section at the top of each one that explains how I increased my organic traffic by 700%+ and I'm not ranking for shit, whats going on here? ...

        Man this is totally going to screw up my monthly income report.
        Create High PA backlinks, add your site to webmaster tool
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        • Profile picture of the author irawr
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          Originally Posted by windowstoweb View Post

          Create High PA backlinks, add your site to webmaster tool
          No way man, I gotta crack Matthew Woodward's secret to making 25k a month.

          "I’m A Savvy Business Woman" Wow he had a sex change for a backlink, I'm taking notes!
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by irawr View Post

        Recently I decided to give in and try the Brian Dean method.

        So I took this site about home repair............. Then I took each article and added a section at the top of each one that explains how I increased my organic traffic by 700%+ and I'm not ranking for shit, whats going on here? ...
        No comprende....Your site is about Home repair and you took the top content on each post an added a report on increasing organic traffic

        Um why?

        Hard to say without seeing your site but you've probably confused/diluted the relevancy/LSI part of the algo
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by windowstoweb View Post

          We must not consider content from only ranking prospective, lets take example of Adsense, when someone apply for it and soon after few days the application is rejected, reason, your site has low quality content (duplicate or other)
          AdSense has nothing to do with SEO and rankings. You wrote a post about SEO and claimed that content was king. Don't start throwing other examples of why content is important into the argument that have nothing to do with the discussion.
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        • Profile picture of the author irawr
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          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          No comprende....Your site is about Home repair and you took the top content on each post an added a report on increasing organic traffic

          Um why?

          Hard to say without seeing your site but you've probably confused/diluted the relevancy/LSI part of the algo
          Sigh. How was it not obvious enough? The OP PMed me as well.

          It's not quite as stupid as 301ing your entire site to the 404 page but it shouldn't of been hard to figure out.
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          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
            Originally Posted by irawr View Post

            Sigh. How was it not obvious enough? The OP PMed me as well.
            Yawn such silliness. I wasn't referring to PMs but what you said about putting totally unrelated content at the top of every home repair article. Actually was trying to assist but now quite happy at your plight.

            It's not quite as stupid as 301ing your entire site to the 404 page
            I don't know anyone who would do that. I do know while an online app reboots (which it will do particularly while its in beta) it will show a 404 page but previous to your post I did not realize anyone was as stupid as to believe a 404 page meant that a deliberate 301 was involved.

            Now thanks to you I know that such people do exist.

            but it shouldn't of been hard to figure out.
            I find silliness hard to figure out all the time just like I did your claim elsewhere that half the US population would be millionaires if not for their subconscious.
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            • Profile picture of the author irawr
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              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

              Yawn such silliness. I wasn't referring to PMs but what you said about putting totally unrelated content at the top of every home repair article. Actually was trying to assist but now quite happy at your plight.
              I'm not in the home repair niche.

              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

              I don't know anyone who would do that. I do know while an online app reboots (which it will do particularly while its in beta) it will show a 404 page but previous to your post I did not realize anyone was as stupid as to believe a 404 page meant that a deliberate 301 was involved.

              Now thanks to you I know that such people do exist.
              It doesn't really matter if you've been manually penalized. Yukon thought up something really interesting that you can do. You can take all of your nofollow links and disavow them.

              I was working on a display campaign the other day and thought up another really neat idea. You can clone your campaign to two different DSPs and then unpause both of them. Let the DSPs fight it out. If you put your spend high enough you could annihilate the accounts as fast as the SSP could handle.

              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

              I find silliness hard to figure out all the time just like I did your claim elsewhere that half the US population would be millionaires if not for their subconscious.
              I was serious about that. The US population is about 300m, it would work. I actually ended up deleting my response because I'm not going to argue about economics (or politics) in the off topic section of these forums. The US dollar is a fiat currency, obviously the entire population could be millionaires if the government allowed it. Also, isn't the average total lifetime income like 1.8 million? It's not that hard of a concept to believe Mike. I wasn't suggesting that 145 million people were going to pull it off in a weekend.
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              • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                Originally Posted by irawr View Post

                I'm not in the home repair niche.
                took you at what you wrote

                So I took this site about home repair.
                It doesn't really matter if you've been manually penalized. Yukon thought up something really interesting that you can do. You can take all of your nofollow links and disavow them.
                and what does that have to do with redirecting ALL pages on your site to a 404 page as you said anyone was stupid enough to do?

                I was serious about that
                Yeah. I know that was the problem

                . The US dollar is a fiat currency, obviously the entire population could be millionaires if the government allowed it. .
                Sigh...no that is not how economies work. You cannot just print money and in any free market society its not the government disallowing anyone - its the market - but this is the SEO area so I'll let that craziness end here again
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                  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                  and what does that have to do with redirecting ALL pages on your site to a 404 page as you said anyone was stupid enough to do?
                  I know you used to sell SEO services, I'm assuming you did SEO at some point. How do you not find these "tips" funny?

                  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                  Sigh...no that is not how economies work. You cannot just print money and in any free market society its not the government disallowing anyone - its the market - but this is the SEO area so I'll let that craziness end here again
                  Sigh... It can work many different ways then the way it currently does. The US government "prints" money all the time. Something tells me that if we get into this, the gray area (in the US) between politics and economics will end up even more so blurred then it already is. So, yeah lets not talk about economics. At least, not here.

                  Edit: Are you into markets? I'm doing good so far this year, wasn't hard to figure out what to buy, it's been being blasted all over the media since new years. http://www.zacks.com/funds/etf/SDS/profile

                  Contrary to common belief, the system is not currently broken. It's not very hard to multiply money the way the it currently works, I hope you'll agree with me there. For me, the hardest part of making money was getting some in the first place.

                  The biggest challenge I currently have is just getting motivated to make more. I can just sit here on WF and my earnings aren't likely going to stop rolling in, unless I delete all my sites and empty out all of my email sequences. I'm also pretty unlikely to get penalized, since I learned from my mistakes and only do white hat SEO these days.

                  Obviously it's not hard, Matthew Woodward claims he is at 25k a month. I'm sure the reason he is successful is because he achieved the world first "360 no scope in a multiplayer FPS game."

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                  Just kidding, what a complete idiot. People were doing that in mods of quake in 1997. He also wrote a great article that explains how to use a hitbot on the SERPs to "rank your site."
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                  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                    Originally Posted by irawr View Post

                    I know you used to sell SEO services, I'm assuming you did SEO at some point. How do you not find these "tips" funny?
                    Actually - more like hilarious. Check the words entire in 'entire site" and the word all (which I even just capitalized). No SEO I know gives the tip to redirect your entire site to a 404 page.

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                    Just kidding, what a complete idiot.
                    Matt and I disagree on somethings but he's no idiot. Spend less time being jealous of people who have actually gotten off their rump and done something and direct it toward well...do something yourself. The whole reason why you are talking about him and he's not talking about you shows which one has spent their time more wisely .
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                    • Profile picture of the author irawr
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                      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                      Matt and I disagree on somethings but he's no idiot. Spend less time being jealous of people who have actually gotten off their rump and done something and direct it toward well...do something yourself. The whole reason why you are talking about him and he's not talking about you shows which one has spent their time more wisely .
                      Well you're right about being jealous. I wish I could spew BS onto the web and get a single site to that kind of income level. You're right though, I should start publishing income reports and routinely brag about how successful my sites are, it's a lot less work then doing research, hiring people, or heck trying to figure out ways to help people and make money in the process. I've seen it work over and over again in certain niches and I've never really seen it in any of my niches (there's a good reason for that.) Maybe I could be the first in my niche, but John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker did that stuff a long time ago, it's not really new.
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                      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                        Actually (and I wont be following this up too much either as its way off topic for this thread) Matt built much of his business on video training and at least in one case I know of a study comparing Majestic to Ahrefs, Moz etc.

                        So the representation of yours that all he did was income claims is false. Still I know you will just find something else because......

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                        Jealous bees are going to buzz
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                        • Profile picture of the author irawr
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                          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                          Haters are going to hate and
                          Jealous bees are going to buzz
                          I'm just pissed my last infographic flopped. Bloggers are too busy making fun of politicians.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bodrulboksh
    What about local seo
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    • Profile picture of the author nasy
      What is best for site, add H1 to all pages ( that every page title is h1) or to put H1 just one in header and that would be the main keyword what is about your site?

      Maybe I did not correct asked, but I really would like to know this, where is the best to put H1?

      Best regards from Bosnia
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    Lol, OP is writing 1,500 words for $5. Apparently $5 content is king.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Lol, OP is writing 1,500 words for $5. Apparently $5 content is king.

      Isn't it $4? Never really sold anything from there but I thought they (Fiverr) charge a dollar.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      I knowed it. I knowed it deep in my heart that content was king. Haven't yet figured out king of what.




      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Lol, OP is writing 1,500 words for $5. Apparently $5 content is king.
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  • Profile picture of the author nehasonijpr
    You have told it very nicely and it is a very big description. SEO has only simple and straight rules which are-
    1. Quality content- Should be interesting and follow search engine guidelines.
    2. Quality link- Should be from same niche and authority sites.
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    Woo, Thanks For Share this.
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  • Profile picture of the author pinkwhale
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    Proper done ON page ---Meta title,meta keywords,meta description
    and OFF page SEO--forum posting,content posting,bookmarking,ad posting etc..
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    Originally Posted by windowstoweb View Post

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    Yоu саn think оf thе H1 аnd H2 meta title tags аѕ like уоur frоnt door.
    h1, h2 are not metas, and meta title is worthless in 2016.

    You (should) lose people when you write something that shows you are clueless.

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    Yellowpages Listing ??
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  • Profile picture of the author 1SEOcom
    Hello,
    Thank you for the post as I found it extremely knowledgeable, we as a company also do very much agree that backlinks are the number one aspect to having a good campaign, good backlinks that is.
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  • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJHeight
    Content is the most important thing for ranking a site.
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    Content is the king, I think
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      Nope.

      Originally Posted by PatriciaJHeight View Post

      Content is the most important thing for ranking a site.
      King of what? Lithuania?

      Originally Posted by PatriciaJHeight View Post

      Content is the king, I think
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  • Profile picture of the author kheerthana
    thanks for giving information about the seo basic rules
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  • Profile picture of the author Anand Soni
    Chosse the correct density of keywords in your page's,it should be at 3% or less and the domain name should be keyword rich also.
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  • Profile picture of the author HayleyS
    Thank you so much for sharing the these 4 rules of search engine optimization! I especially agree with the rule of quality content, because it should be original, informative, factual and absent of spelling and grammatical errors.
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    Backlinks and content are the most important things in SEO.
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