Originally Posted by tanicos 
hello
Here are some SEO advices for beginners i can say.
First of all i am in this field for over 3 years. I can say that i don't like the time spent and that's why i hired someone. But before that here is what i have manage to learn:
1. Link Directories - Good only for PR (google case)
Example: I paid about 300$ for links on many directories, on PR3-5 pages. All good. When google crawled some of them the PR went to 1 or 2.
Conclusion - Don't waist your time too much and especially the money on those.
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Directories are practically worthless anyway. They're good for when you're just getting started with a new site, but don't rely on them to be the Holy Grail of inbound links. Furthermore, they tend to contain so many links, have such poor internal architecture and linking structures anyway that whatever PageRank they do pass on tends to be weak to virtually non-existant anyway.
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2. Social Bookmarking - 100 digs for some pages
Example: I had a Web 2.0 Design Tutorial website and got about 100 digs for some articles, technorati, del.icio.us and so on.
When checking backlinks digg.com showed only 5 of them.
Conclusion - Pretty good but make sure your article is 110% original.
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Why bother wasting your time getting Diggs? Again, as far as the search engines are concerned, the links are going to be worthless anyway. All they'll do is bring you some traffic with that leaves as soon as it arrives anyway - and when you're trying to get your traffic to convert, having them leave will do two things and two things only - artificially inflate your bounce rates while decreasing your conversions/sales.
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3. Article Submission - 20 articles on "famous" article directories
Example: As i was writing the tutorials i thought "let's publish them".
Backlinks - very few after so much work
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Isn't duplicate content fun? Another reason not to use article submissions. If you do, just write a unique summary of the article for each site you're going to submit to and include a link to the full article on your site. Of course, the links still won't be worth much, but if the summaries are written properly and the summaries submitted to the proper and relevant sites, they can send you a deluge of highly qualified targeted traffic that can convert well (this doesn't happen as often as people think, though).
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4. Link Exchange websites - Paid about 50$/monthly for 3 link exchange websites.
Example: I added my website to this websites and received about 400 links every month. I added a link exchange script with the "nofollow" attribute ON. I even added the disallow rule in .htaccess. All good so far.
After 3 months i got about 10 emails from different people asking me to remove their links because their sites were banned from Google.
Conclusion: Don't do this kind of link exchange.REALLY DON'T. Your link will end on a 100 link page which of course will end to banning from Google and who knows others too.
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Another thing that should be common sense. Don't participate in link exchanges - especially site-wide ones. Instead, focus on getting quality relevant one-way incoming links pointing to your Web pages. It's not as hard as some people make it out to be.
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5. Paid Traffic - About 50$/monthly for as they said " 3000 unique visitors"
Example - Because i did not had the time to surf other websites i paid for this services.
Conclusion: Google Analytics was telling me that from 3000 visitors/monthly i got only 200 from that site.
Alexa was the only one who showed that i had heavy traffic. But if you don't pay for 1 month the Alexa rank will go down too. Don't waist your time with this.
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You forgot one other critical factor - that traffic is not targeted and is going to be about as welcome to your bottom line (read: your profit margin) as ants at a picnic, or Al Bundy anywhere in public (for the record, I am referring strictly to the character Al Bundy from the TV show "Married, With Children" here).
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Now for the good things.
Don't know if i am allowed to say which software i used to SEO my websites but if an admin or moderator tells me i can..i will of course mention it's name. The license costs between 250$-450$ depending on your needs.
Believe me it's really unbelievable and you learn a lot of things from it.
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I don't use software - I check everything manually. At least with my own sites anyway.
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1. Always or at least monthly change your website keywords positioning
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Twice a month is actually better, with a comprehensive review every three months.
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2. Put h1-h4 tags on your website
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Please, PLEASE, don't do this for SEO purposes. Instead, use them properly in full accordance with the HTML and XHTML specifications. Believe it or not, you'll find your rankings improve better if you use them properly than if you try to game and manipulate the search engines.
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3. Bold or underline your keywords and again change things on a regularly basis
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NO.
Do not do this. It's not only bad for accessibility and usability, but can also dramatically increase your bounce rates as well - if you want to give your visitors the middle finger (or the thumbs up in Greece or Iran for example), by all means be my guest. If we're competitors, I'll gladly accept those visitors and their money with open arms.
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4. For script users make your URLS search engine friendly
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Or better yet, just use natural xHTML anchor elements and make sure you use mod_rewrite to parse dynamic URLs into a human-readable and friendly format.
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5. Try and write articles directly on your site and add a social bookmarking script for people to bookmark
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Be careful with how you do this. Whatever you do,
do not write for the search engines.
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6. If you do link exchange make sure the website topic is similar to yours and check their page source for the "nofollow" attribute. If it's there delete their link.
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Or better yet, just don't engage in link exchanges. Get people to want to link back to you instead by providing quality content such as the article I just linked to above.
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7. Create a google and yahoo sitemap and submit it.
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There's no such thing as a "Google" or "Yahoo" Sitemap. There is however an XML sitemap that all the major search engines support these days, as well as a sitemap page that should be on all sites with more than just a handful of pages.
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8. Changing or adding Content regularly of your website is NO2.SEO RULE
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Actually the #2 rule is to be patient.
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9. the NO.1 SEO rule is to have patience. Really it is.
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Which means the number one rule is to build useful Web sites for people, not search engines.
Originally Posted by tanicos
I just launched a template store and i can say that it's on top google and yahoo for 10 keywords from about 35 mil pages. And i did not even submit it to digg or had a link exchange with anybody..so far
There are plenty of other methods but these are the start ones.
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How long ago did you launch the site? Chances are good that Google and Yahoo simply haven't determined where to best place those pages on your site in their indexes yet.
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