Featured: Keyword Research
If you're a beginner you may be wondering where you start with all this business of SEO. Do you start by designing your website and manipulating your code in some magical way? Do you start by building a site and then going about the work of getting people to link to your site?
Let me just say that these tasks mentioned above are important, but they're not the most important first step in an SEO campaign. Your first step should always be research. Read part 1 of 4 to get started.
What is SEO?
Maybe you've heard the term during an office water cooler conversation or maybe you've seen a reference to it online. Maybe you even know enough that it has to do with marketing your website in the search engines. For most people, SEO means performing some crazy, juju-voodoo magic on your website with the ambitious goal of ranking your website in the top positions.
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Link building (Part 1) The Basics
Well, here we go. How do we tackle the most intensive and time consuming part of any SEO job? Just like any other job, the best way is to just hunker down, roll up your sleeves and take it step by step, bit by bit until you've completed the job - no matter how long it takes and how much you sweat. Hopefully in the end it will all be worth it.
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A Guide to SEO Friendly Design
Search Engine Optimization is not all about links. Through this three part series we'll look at the design related issues that people overlook when optimizing their site. To properly "design" your site for an SEO campaign you need to understand such strange and bizarre concepts as "organization" before you put mouse to pixel, "consistency" and "attention to the code behind the scenes" that visitors never see.
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