What Are The Top#3 SEO Tricks?

keyword in title tag
quantity backlink
relevant backlinks
high pr backlinks

I have been using this for along time and I rank for almost all of my keywords

although backlinking is good i see time and time ago that wariros on this forum fail to mention onsite optimization...

if your site looks bad people arent going to stay or come back not to mention spend money!
if your site cant be navigated people arent going to stay or come back
if your site has poor content people arent going to stay or come back

no amount of backlinks can fix any of those...

by covering at least your basic seo onsite optimization such as:

keyword in title tags
relavant meta tags (yes do use them they arent going to hurt anyone)
proper use of H tags
bolded and italicized keyword text
keyword in domain and file names
keywords for anchor text
theres plenty more but too much to get into right now...

you will see much more benefit in the amount of backlinking you do...

Take advantage of all the free third party resources there are, like Facebook, blogger, Squidoo.

Concentrate on those that produce RSS pheeds.

Use the RSS pheeds to create more resources using your own content.

Use the RSS pheeds to cross link all your resources.

Ping all your RSS pheeds.

Submit RSS pheeds to RSS directories create more linking opportunities.

Plus about 100 others...

I believe in well optimised sites ... i.e. page titles, domain names, content all built around well researched keywords.

This works well for me. I offer links to Social Networks and RSS feeds but do not submit. I also do some article marketing.

Bottom line all my sites do well on the search engines and I get lots of traffic

One quick question what are RSS feeds and how do you use them??

PG

Create a sitemap for google
BUild relevant backlinks
Update new content often

What I think is funny how one tip works for one person consistently but not for everybody. There is certainly a lot of Science to SEO but unlike SEM their are still elements of art to it.

"Use your keywords early and often" - Brad Fallon

You've gotten some specifics on how and where in other posts.

Good luck!

Cheers.

On my idea the top #3 SEO tricks are as follows:

1. Right keyword search engine in order to get more high traffic.
2. The content filled is more informative to the visitors.
3. Nice offers to the future costumers or buyers.

Quality contents and with tons of backlinks will get you to the first page of Google.

Don't forget the huge value in a keyword(s) rich domain name to start with.

Everything else mentioned then becomes even easier.

Thanks for alll the info, much appreciated. Now I go out and

DO IT!!!

The single biggest factor that will affect your SEO rankings are the backlinks (and their anchor text) to your site. However, this is also the hardest to manipulate. Therefore here's my top 3...

#1 Domain name - Waaay overlooked, if you are building a site entirely around a single or small group of keywords (Sniper sites) and you can afford to do it. Do. It will give you a massive boost.

#2 Use wordpress - Works wonders. You'll rank faster and higher than any html/php site. If you're set on your ways (like I used to be) it's about time you made the switch...

#3 Use LSI keywords - These related keywords will make your main keyword stand out so much more.

Cheers!
George

1. domain name
2. long tail keyword, keyword on first and last paragraph
3. backlinks

You have everything you need from the comments above, but I will add a couple things.

The biggest thing I would recommend is to study your competition. Know who they are and where their links are coming in from. Make sure you have incoming links from those sources as well.

If you are using pre-formatted blogging platforms such as Blogger or Squidoo you need to study the competition. Google will only return two Blogger sites and two Squidoo lenses for any search term. Look at the two that come up (especially if they are on the front page) and study them. I don't mean speed read through them, I mean study them more than you studied for your SAT in high school. There are loopholes in those platforms. Content is not always king there. Inbound links matter, but not to the extent they do on dot com sites. A lot of people "game" those platforms and get front page Google rankings with sh*t blogs and lenses.

One other thing that George mentioned above. Everyone out there knows about relevant content and inbound links. What very few people work into their mix is the SLI thing. Now, people will argue to what extent Google has this built into their algorithm-but I'd bet my Ford-F150, my hunting dog, and my girlfriend that they use it to some extent. (Okay, I'm taking my dog out of the bet I made above.)

Example: Suppose you are keying in on a search term such as "affiliate marketing". There is a ton of competition. I just did that search. Wikipedia came up number one, but they aren't selling anything, so I looked at the second site--a commercial one.

Now, they have thousands of incoming links, many from high PR sites, so they are going to be tough to beat. But I went to Keyword Density Analyzer and ran an analysis of the site. The tool strips out all of the HTML, punctuation, etc. The key words used on the page included:

Affiliate, programs, money, online, marketing, cpa, commission, revenue, ranked, reviewed, hosting, network, articles, money, visitors, as well as the names of many of the top affiliate programs.

The site has a Page Rank of 5 so it is somewhat of an authority site in Google's eyes. When someone does a search for "affiliate marketing" it is almost certain that Google looks at the content in the top sites in its index and compares the commonly used words related to "affiliate" marketing. Google expects to see those words used in new sites coming into its index. A site with the proper keyword density may not do well (all other things being equal) if it doesn't find semantically similar words in the new site as in the top ranking sites. It does this to try to eliminate as many voodoo, spam, scum auto-posted blogs as possible.

The vast majority of site/blog owners do not take this into consideration. You may consider this kind of theoretical and abstract, but I can guarantee that building content rich with words semantically similar to your keywords will give you some good Google love.

my top seo strategies:

1. do follow forums
2. sitemap of your page
3. relevant blog commenting

Wow this is great stuff. Thanks for all the help. I agree that content should be quality, and to always be expanding and creating new content. And of course submitting a site map to google, yahoo, live, and ask are also equally important.

Funny you mention keywords in content.
I submitted some new articles to EA, and lo and
behold, they were at first rejected because the
keywords I had tagged were counted as too many.
I thought that was the point. So, rather than eliminate
the words in my articles, I eliminated the 'chosen'
keywords as I could not give up the density of my actual
chosen keywords. I had never known this about EA, and
now write my articles carefully.

I do not know the reason for the keyword thing on EA.
My keywords were selectively chosen and inserted at
good places in the articles.

Paulgl

1) Good Content
2) Good Content
3) Good Content

4) Goto 1

G.

Well, here is my top 3
a. Quality Content
b. Tons of Quality Links
c. and the Site Itself

Keyword in Title, mini headline,meta tag, domain and a few times with the content (but dont over do it) Then throw in some quality backlinks that relate to your website topic.
Goodluck

Keywords in title tag
Unique Content
Relevant and quality Links

Hmmmm....I guess my response was incorrect, as I thought this was about "tricks", not basics. My fault.

do you mean the automated ones? can you please elaborate or share if you dont mind

It you got good amount of money for investment then you can go for
1) PPC compaign
2) Banner Adv
3) Get backlink

Else we can do

1) Article submission
2) Directory Submission
3) Social bookmarking
4) Forum posting

relevent and high pr backlinks and off course quality content