What is best method for page 1 Google friendly SEO

If I was to do 'ONE'?

That's not SEO friendly.

The best 'seo' friendly method is to have a great website, with great content. Period.

That's been the strategy every since day 1 on Google and it will always be the right answer.

Which is why Google changes their algorithm daily.

From day 1, Google is focused on this ONE mindset:

'We want our users to find what they're looking for in the top result'

They do this by measuring against relevancy and popularity, but what Penguin and Panda did was to take IRRELEVANCY in the content and backlinks away.

It wanted to make sure that the CONTENT was relevant.

This ebb and flow is what happens all the time. One day it's a focus on popularity, then it's content, but it is ALWAYS on relevancy, originality, and quality since day one.

That's all junk for external links unless that wiki link is a Wikipedia link.

I do not drink G's cool aid any more. G is so scared that someone may game their results that G does not reward relevancy, originality, or quality.

Relevancy - every step that I know of that people have taken to show relevancy has been rejected by G. In fact, G penalizes if you do too much onsite SEO. G thinks that since you are trying your best to show that your site is about guitars, you must be trying to trick people and that your site is really not relevant to guitars but something else. Same for EMD's, titles, meta keywords, and sites that answer questions.

Originality - G does not penalize sites that copy material from other sites. Look at news sites and they have the same news articles as other news sites. It is called syndication. Other than news, I have searched for certain information and found the very same article on 7 or 8 of the top 10 sites. Again, it is called article syndication.

Quality - G does not know, and in fact, cannot know what is quality. It is not an expert in all subjects and it does not have experts look at sites. When you are an expert in a subject, you know what is BS and what isn't. I have looked at a lot of sites in subjects that I know, and I can say that G often ranks high sites that are by people who do not know what they are talking about and are giving bogus or incomplete information.

What does G reward? I really don't know and now don't care. From what I have read, right now G rewards what it deems "natural back linking". But that is faulty and erroneous because most sites do not really link to other sites now days. Every one tries to keep viewers on their site.

Well i think best is to concentrate on your on page content...quality content, deliver your visitors need. Make similar kind of backlinks which is again fall in the same category like quality content and deliver to your visitors what they want on your backlink page and you will win....

I hope this will help you...

Seems that a perfectly optimized website with tons of killer content about the keyword your trying to rank is the best and safest way now.

1. keyword research is ESSENTIAL before you do anything further

2. onsite SEO. smaller part of SEO but very important. proper titles, meta descriptions, alt image tags, robots.txt, sitemap, etc. google for "on site SEO check".

3. great...i will repeat - GREAT and useful UNIQUE content, updated more often.

4. social signals. without anyone sharing your content, google won't consider your website seriously. i don't mean a bunch of false likes or fans to your facebook page. i mean sharing on various accounts, on a various social networks.

5. link building - use everything, but you need to balance it. you can't just have a bunch of forum signatures and links in a blog comments without any mention in articles on other blogs. that means you need to invest some time (or money) to write a quality guest posts on the other authority websites in your own niche. vice versa - if you have just a guest posts backlinks without any of "low value" backlinks such as forums and blog comments, google will also become suspicious. di-ver-si-fy your backlinks.

6. video marketing. find a youtube suggestions for a long tail phrases related to your main keyword. check out for competition. invest some time and make a good video(s) promoting your website.

when you do all that, and start to drve a decent traffic on a daily basis, make a newsletter and engage your clients to subscribe.

Yukon, you know a lot more about SEO that I do, but I disagree with several things.

First, relevancy. You claim that G looks at relevancy and you cite the fact that G has this thread listed as number 1 when you search for the title of this thread. I can't explain why G has it listed as number 1, but look at the other search results. Some may be applicable, but others are not. See number 6 - Moving Your Site - The SEO-friendly Way | eBoost Consulting.

Second, quality. While you give a very good explanation as to what G is probably looking for, it is clear that G is not looking for quality. As you correctly said, G is not looking for knowledge or facts. It is looking for what it deems to be relative synonyms. A web site can be garbage, but by using the synonyms and LSI's that G likes, the web site may rank high. G is simply not looking for quality content.

Third, back links. Even though I have exchanged links with relevant sites, I understand that G doesn't like it and does not count these links as valid links. I wouldn't be surprised if G actually penalized my site for the exchange links.

Nice list of techniques. Thanks !

None of them. At least not as your main seo strategy. Go with what Yukon suggests. It all makes sense.

I'd recommend you start by writing good quality content on your website and associated blog (if any), ask niche related webmasters if they' like to post an article on their site. If they do, write a good quality article and you might get both traffic and a link back as a result.

If you have a good, old domain with no fishy link building done to it at all maybe all you have to do is to find some nice long tail keywords, write some good content and google will maybe rank you without having to do any off-page seo at all. I can tell you, I have a few old sites that I have done absolutely NO off-page SEO work on and whatever article I write on these domains get ranked well for the chosen keywords. Probably because they are quality and relevant articles to the theme of that website.