Career Advice Needed: How many buttons do I need to learn to click to become a SEO professional???

Mike must be bored or fishing for something....can't tell.

The professional SEO follows the strict 4.2123% keyword density rule and uses meta keywords like its the holy grail.... duh.

Blog comments all day brah. I got to rank 1 in minutes. .

You obviously missed the best part of software training school.


The world of being an SEO Professional, is now your Oyster.

It's not that they have been burned out of effectiveness, or that they were never effective.. it's the way the common mass are using it that is uneffective. Blasting crap used to be effective.. it isn't anymore, so now you need to use the tools only to enhance what you would normally do manually. Thats it and that's all.

That being said, back to Mike's question, how might a professional use the tools? Well? How would you post something manually? Would you push 'autospin' and run 'blast-o-matic' template? I wouldn't. Not these days anyways. What I would do is:

a. Purchase a good deal of quality articles, and/or spin - as in spin the crap out of, paragraph/sentence/phrase/word quality type spin

b. Use the #link# tags the software uses, whatever those are, strategically, within the context of the article (most lazy people let the software default to wherever it puts the links.. at the bottom.. spam, boo)

c. Add image and video html into the article. If not for just plain making a nice page for your tier, this makes sure if nothing else that your page wont get deleted by mods of the site, and also for possible quality signals.

d. Run your submissions nice.... and.... slow..... the automation part should be to make things easier, not necessarily faster

e. If it were me I would go back into the sites and post a profile and pic of some sort for legitimacy

Getting not too far off the subject, but this whole argument about pages being pr n/a, pr 0 so they are worthless is getting really tiresome. All new pages are pr n/a, pr 0. Period. Wherever you put them. Private blog networks, web20's, your money site, whatever. So all new pages you post are worthless?

How do you 'boost' them? The same way you 'boost' any other page. Thats a different subject. Yes, some marketers sort of mislead by making it sound like, "Post on 100's of HIGH PR SITES", like YOU will get a high pr page.. well, no. But them being high pr sites is an instant authority/trust factor that definitely helps to get your new pages found and possibly even indexed on their own.

As for there being other links on the pages pointing outward, away from your target, thus leaking juice. Well, yes indeed, very good point to consider. But in the longrun, with the easyness of how it was to post the page to begin with.. who cares really? Besides, it's been shown that the search engines like to see links pointing outwards, here there and everywhere. It takes the focus away from being obvious, kind of automatically flying you under the radar, so to speak. Also it helps keep those sites authoritive and contributes to the authoritiveness of the page, as it will be integrated into the awesomely integrated link structure that the site has. You may be linking out to other pages, but links on other pages will also be linking to yours as well.

Honestly, the only shit I've been using is Excel and MajesticSEO. :O

Natural looking content - Should follow Google's guidelines (search for a PDF published by Google) + information should be readable in a flow (e.g. Should not be like "SEO Service - We offer quality SEO service.....blah blah.....")

Back links -

Anchor text diversity (for keywords) is a must. I would build few quality links using sitename.com as anchor text.

Links from top free sites(Authoritative sites) with variety of keywords - Social Bookmarks + Article Directories(including eZines) + Document Sharing Websites + Video Sharing Websites + Web 2.0 (Should be updated on a regular basis) + Press Releases - Freebies alone are not enough for medium competitive keywords. Should be done manually(or in a semi automatic way by using a tool that assists you doing them manually) without leaving foot prints (different accounts, active accounts with profile pictures). I use rewritten content for building these kind of links.(I have my own team here in India for doing that ).

Links from quality (but not those sites which are only made for selling links) websites or blogs relevant to the niche of targeted website and keyword. - Could be either free e.g. by guest posting, sponsored posts (without any foot print) and link baiting or by purchasing from some one in private. Works for competitive keywords, I think relevance is the key , 1 quality relevant back link is equivalent to at least 5 links from article directories .

FB, Twitter, Google + - Share it with as many people. More tweets/votes/likes that you get, better are chances to rank higher. Adding Authorship and uploading a real pic helps. Tweets from s/w generated accounts like wgfegfgjfgj123 never work.

Linklicious.me works great.

Slow Link Building - 40 indexed links/day is limit for me for new sites, can be higher for well established websites.

For brand new websites if you build a lot of links with in first two months with too less content Google may find some thing fishy and it's easier for your website to come in their radar (tough it might not get penalized always).

When a new blog selling few affiliate links get's 1000s of links in 1 month then it would raise every one's eyebrow. But if you have some thing worthy (unique) at your blog, this might seem natural. Using an old domain which has a good deal of authority is helpful.(There are many places to find such ones)

I think when some one claims to be pro in SEO, he/she should be able to analyze the best fit keywords, competition, how easy or difficult is it to get it ranked at 1st page of search results and what it takes (time n efforts/money).

3-4... I don't know how many it takes to delete a thread

Al Sharptons getting married & I'm invited?

There is no hard test to become a "professional" SEO.

If you can get your site ranked where you want it, you are a pro. If not, you are a scrub.

True SEO professionals use those tools on competitor sites and then report them for spamming if they don't drop on their own. I hear tweeting Matt cuts directly with the URL & keyword does wonders too. Be sure to taunt him about how big of a joke his algo is since the last update missed it. Do that for evey site above yours and walla, top 3 rankings. Plan B of course is spamming job applications to your local McDonalds.

I hear tweeting Matt cuts directly with the URL & keyword does wonders too.

Very funny post, but I do believe automated tools has their place for ranking currently.

meta keywords are back dude

Benefit on the tiered link building of other spammers. You know those shownews url's and trackback pages with insane high Ahrefs rank and PA.

Too bad SenukeX, UltimateDemon, Licorne or GSA can't post on any of those.

They do make pretty solid links to use at web2.0's and such. Well solid, it's total crap but it has tons of authority that flows through and it's effective to rank, at least I'm told so, still have to try it out myself on some site that I can afford to lose.