Learning SEO Basics

Richard Burckhardt outdoes himself with this simply put, but terrifically thorough beginner list of SEO to-dos.

“Everyone loves a good tip, right? Here are 55 quick tips for search engine optimization that even your mother could use to get cooking. Well, not my mother, but you get my point. Most folks with some web design and beginner SEO knowledge should be able to take these to the bank without any problem.”

Brian, aka copyblogger, Sent this link by way of Twitter.

Landing page tutorials and landing page make-overs..

Providing links to 18 pages to help you improve your landing pages..

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Page Optimization for SE’s AND Your Readers

Your pages need to be optimized for both the search engines as well as for your readers.

If you are only optimizing for the search engines, it’s likely that the material that you are introducing to your readers hold little appeal. Without appeal, why should they return when there are so many other places they can go?

In part 1 we talked about a few of the advantages of creating a blog of your own as a means of building a resume’ that expresses your ability to perform your newfound education without actual SEO employment history.

Before October 07 I had never heard of SEO. I didn’t know what ‘blogging’ was. I never saw an HTML tag or any other kind of tag for that matter.

So here you are. You’ve researched ebooks, paperbacks, podcasts, videos, forums and then some. You begin to sprout little wings and you want to fly.

How can you prove your abilities? Build your resume‘? Gain experience?

If you are interested in the possibility of using your newfound skills but don’t know where to begin, this Buds post is for you.

This is the first of two posts to address a few options that are available to you.

I was surfing through some educational resource links in Stumbleupon and various other places. I had somehow stumbled onto Morgrets page to find a wide variety of free educational blogs and websites.

I checked out Morgrets profile even further to find that she is affiliated with a terrific, free, no gimmick website called “OER Commons” - Open Educational Resources. She may even be their SEO. Dunno..I’ll have to ask her.

So I’m reading Aaron Walls “SEO Book” this morning. I’m kinda cheating too. A friend bought it so I asked him to pass it my way. (sorry Aaron)

I picked the chapter about usability because I had just stopped by Ruuds short but sweet post entitled “Semantics: Call It User Friendly“.

Says Ruud:

“instead of using Urkel speak and freaking geeking everybody out, use words that make sense in business” (lol..Urkel speak)

You may be visiting this blog from your living room computer thinking “My website has very little traffic and / or very low conversion rate. What the hell am I missing?” You’ve heard about that “SEO stuff” and you know that you need all the help you can get.

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SEO is not a miracle pill that shows immediate results I’m afraid. But with patience it can be quite fruitful. And SEO begins with the little things.

This in the conclusion to the “Keyword Importance” series.

The first of the series: Keyword Importance

The second of series: Homepage Disasters

In the previous posts about keyword importance we noted the neglect of 3 major corporations in using SEO strategy:

• Pampers
• Huggies
• Luvs

In the commentary of the last post “Homepage Disasters“, Jansie asked what the ‘keyword density‘ should be for each of these sites.

Homepage Disasters is a “Learning SEO: Keyword Importance” follow up.

In the previous “Keyword Importance” post we discovered that the search query for “diapers” showed the Big Dogs of Diaperville are not doing so well.

• Pampers
• Huggies
• Luvs

I learned since then that their home pages are complete SEO disasters as well.

Oh sorry, wrong disaster

I meant to use this one

Oops, no that one has the right keyword.