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6:55 pm
March 2, 2011
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Nice discussion guys! Financial Blogger stated stuff close to what I know. But I agree age is very important also with great content and highly relevant links, the big G loves this.
Always use SEO plugin like All In One Seo or SEO Ultimate (more features)
This maybe overkill and not always required, but here are some rules that I've learned that seem to work well
Keyword should be in:
1) Title of Post (SEO plugin)
2) URL for page
3) Description (SEO plugin)
4) tags (SEO plugin)
5) content (once every 100-200 words if possible)
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6) External link anchor – when linking back to the keyword optimized post, in the anchor text say 1/4 to 1/5 of the time.
7) Internal link anchor – from other related posts using exact keyword every time if you like since it's within your own site. If in Wordpress I used the Related posts plugin beneath the post to help me find related posts quickly.
Hope that helps!
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5:09 pm
March 30, 2011
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Post edited 5:09 pm – March 30, 2011 by Fcoll
Since some people were worried about post url length, there's a plugin which automatically removes stop words from your urls (a, the, etc.) — http://wordpress.org/extend/pl…..seo-slugs/
P.S. It does create some ridiculous urls from time to time :)
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11:03 pm
April 27, 2011
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Sylvia
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Guys!! Read this latest article from seomoz 
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-e…..n-page-seo
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11:17 pm
April 27, 2011
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Sylvia
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Well!! Thanks Mike..
Alan – MoneySanity.com said:
The Financial Blogger said:
Here's how I see it:
example:
let's say you want to rank for the keyword "First Time Mortgage"
best way to write your title is: First Time Mortgage: 5 Tricks To Buy Your House
your keyword is the first thing in your title, so Google will get more attention.
url structure: first-time-mortgage-tricks
you get only relevant keywords coming from your title. So google can track the url and identify your keyword right away
in the first paragraph: include again "first time mortgage"
Google bots will give more importance to words inside the first paragraph. It makes sense since you should announce what your post is about in the very first line of your article, right?
additional tricks: read my thread
I have written a thread on SEO on the yakezie forum, this should help you out ranking for your keywords:
http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..38;ret=all
cheers,
Mike
Mike, Great stuff. If you haven't already you should consider a blog about blogging.
Thanks!
Alan
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12:27 pm
May 15, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett
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5:27 pm
May 16, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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JT_McGee said:
The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff) said:
Can someone tell me why my SEO sucks. When I get visits from search engines, most of them are from google images, or international visitors. I currently use the all in one seo package, but I haven't had much success.
Really, even if you did everything 100% by the book, the fact that your site is <1 year old is the killer. Google values the age of the site more than is probably reasonable. Trust me, you'll see serious jumps at the 6, 12 and 24 month old mark. Google rewards those who have been around awhile, and does so generously.
^^^
Now that I'm in my first year I'm seeing some significant boosts in SE traffic. Only downside is a lot of it is tied to a couple of articles (the articles themselves are 10% of SE but like 80% of adsense and if you look at the keywords, most of them are related to the keywords of those two articles). I think it's because one article was featured on two major sites which really helped.
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6:30 pm
May 16, 2011
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Invest It Wisely said:
JT_McGee said:
The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff) said:
Can someone tell me why my SEO sucks. When I get visits from search engines, most of them are from google images, or international visitors. I currently use the all in one seo package, but I haven't had much success.
Really, even if you did everything 100% by the book, the fact that your site is <1 year old is the killer. Google values the age of the site more than is probably reasonable. Trust me, you'll see serious jumps at the 6, 12 and 24 month old mark. Google rewards those who have been around awhile, and does so generously.
^^^
Now that I'm in my first year I'm seeing some significant boosts in SE traffic. Only downside is a lot of it is tied to a couple of articles (the articles themselves are 10% of SE but like 80% of adsense and if you look at the keywords, most of them are related to the keywords of those two articles). I think it's because one article was featured on two major sites which really helped.
Crazy isn't it? What you said sounds a lot like the changes I see when sites age. It's like everything that worked for the first year is then dialed up for having been a year older. Compound SEO? ;)
I have a site turning 6 years old this year…I'm hoping Google brings me a big birthday gift. :P
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5:55 am
May 17, 2011
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Sylvia
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Thanks Mark…
Invest It Wisely said:
JT_McGee said:
The Wall Street Chalkboard (Jeff) said:
Can someone tell me why my SEO sucks. When I get visits from search engines, most of them are from google images, or international visitors. I currently use the all in one seo package, but I haven't had much success.
Really, even if you did everything 100% by the book, the fact that your site is <1 year old is the killer. Google values the age of the site more than is probably reasonable. Trust me, you'll see serious jumps at the 6, 12 and 24 month old mark. Google rewards those who have been around awhile, and does so generously.
^^^
Now that I'm in my first year I'm seeing some significant boosts in SE traffic. Only downside is a lot of it is tied to a couple of articles (the articles themselves are 10% of SE but like 80% of adsense and if you look at the keywords, most of them are related to the keywords of those two articles). I think it's because one article was featured on two major sites which really helped.
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11:30 am
June 1, 2011
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Great discussion, all! My informed response to the original query is, "It depends." :)
And since it depends, why not optimize in all ways possible? URL, URL structure (there is a difference), title, tags, categories, keywords, CONTENT (huge), offpage factors, etc.?
For example, if your keyword phrase (KWP) is available as a .com, take it. If not, try .org and then .net. If still not available, go for KWP+some number or modifier (bluewidgets101.com, for example).
You can't do anything about your domain age, though, as a lot of people have said here, age really matters.
Don't forget backlinks–links do count, as long as they're indexed. Links do have different weightings, however, with the SEs. A link from Wikipedia is better than a link from JoeBlow.com. However, get enough JoeBlow.com-type links and you make up for the quality with volume.
As in real life, make the best of what you have. If you already have a killer website but its URL isn't keyword rich, who cares? Make the most of it, using other tactics (get more backlinks, optimize your permalinks, guest blog to drive more traffic to your site, etc.).
ALWAYS write good content, make frequent updates. And don't forget the importance of traffic–traffic begets more traffic. The more traffic you get, the higher up in the ranks you go (all other things staying the same).
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8:41 pm
June 21, 2011
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People have provided great answers here.
I think search engine traffic is ultimately about content, however. No matter how much optimization you do for keywords, etc. the amount of traffic you get is largely proportional to the quality and quantity of inbound links. If you provide fresh, relevant, remarkable content, you'll get frequent visits and inbound links. I suggest building quality links from sites that have traffic already, and let your remarkable content spread through word of mouth. That worked for my earlier blogs and I'm applying to my current one.
Kristoph
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