Hello all,
This was a recent article we did in our blog, a "SEO for dummies" type of article.
It is a basic blueprint for SEO of a new website and I just thought I would post it to get some feedback from other SEO experts that we could add to the list.....
Step by Step Instructions to get High Ranking in Search Results
I have written a few articles about the specifics of SEO techniques but I still get a lot of emails from people asking me what all the things they can do to get ranked high in search results. So here is your list, your instructions, on how to get a site well ranked within the first 3 months of its publishing date provided you complete all the things on this list within 6-10 weeks.
1. Verify the code in your page using the W3c validation tool and fix the errors.
2. Optimize your keywords for the most popular keyword terms if you feel you can
compete, if not, optimize for the "mid level" keywords or the ones used some of the time (middle ranked keywords using the Google keyword tool)
3. Create a blog so you have something to submit to Digg, Blog catalog, Technorati, EzineArticles, etc. Wordpress is best for the platform, make sure to use the SEO plugin for Wordpress and fill out all the SEO options for an article. (tags, keywords, descriptions, etc.)
4. Submit a sitemap to Google, Bing, and Yahoo
5. Write another article for your blog.
6. Participate in “dofollow” forums, post comments and questions. Make sure you include links to your website so people and search engines can see you outside your webpage. This creates vital links to your website and DOES help with page rank over time. This is very very important, something you really need to do, and this is the easiest way to do it. I can not stress this enough.
7. Write another article for your blog
8. Build a Squidoo lens for your website
9. Look into a traffic generator service to help boost your Alexa rank
10. Write another article for your blog
11. Submit your website to the DMOZ directory
12. Comment on some blog articles related to your business. Don’t forget to hyperlink your name to your website. Don’t just post an http link, use your first name, or company name and make it an http hyperlink to your website. That is what the search engines will see as a link back to your page.
13. Get all your friends to bookmark your site in Google Bookmarks and in Yahoo's Delicious, at least 20 of them.
14. Write another article for your blog.
15. Promote your website on Twitter and Facebook
16. Write another article for your blog
17. Make sure you have updated all your accounts in Technorati, Digg, Blog Catalog, and EzineArticles
18. Make some more comments in forums
19. Write another article for your blog
20. Pay PRweb for a press release
21. Make sure you get a listing on the Yellowpages website.
22. Write another article for your blog
23. Submit a new sitemap to Google, Bing, and Yahoo
24. Pay Yahoo to be listed in their directory ($299)
25. Invest some time with a Traffic Generator like TrafficGenie
26. Write another article for your blog
27. Build a web page on MerchantCircle
28. Write another article for your blog
29. Submit your website to the ZoomInfo directory
30. Make some more posts in forums
31. Write another article for your blog
32. Submit another sitemap to Google, Bing, and Yahoo
34. Make sure you have updated all your blog submission accounts at Technorati, Blog catalog, Digg, EzineArticles, or any others you have used.
Follow this list to a “T” and in 3 months you will have a well ranked page in the SERP's and make sure you devote at least 4 hours, every two weeks, to one or more of the steps above, writing articles, participating in forums, etc.
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So what else would everyone add to a crash course SEO step by step list?
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