Comments on: SEO Checklist (for Dummies)

By: traffic to blog

traffic to blog — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:14:11 +0000

I would rather categorize it into 2 sets

Onsite- The SEO done on the site

1- Meta Tags
2- Content with a good ratio of keywords (3-5%)
3- Navigation and code without clutter, try to avoid Javascript or Dhtml when showing the content
4-Optimize Images, 401 pages and Urls
5- Sitemap

OFFSITE
- Frequent Site Map submission to G and Y to ensure the site is crawled well
- Submission to good directories and related directories
- Article Submissions
- Press releases
- Knol and social media
- Social bookmarking

By: Prasenjit

Prasenjit — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:10:08 +0000

Hey Al,

I love your blog Tagline – “Earning by Learning”. I believe that there’s no earning without learning. I have written 8 First Step SEO Ranking Factors for Bloggers. Let me know whether you like it or not.

Cheers.

By: SEO Forum Man

SEO Forum Man — Sun, 16 May 2010 13:12:32 +0000

Great list that covers I think pretty much the basics. I assume that when you were talking about “links” in your off page SEO you were referring to also Social Media Optimization? That was I think probably the only thing missing from this list. Great compilation though again.

By: lisa

lisa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:53:49 +0000

Very very useful. This would help any one and every one while posting their material on blogs or those designing websites. Even i shall follow it!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:14:00 +0000

If I were to use the meta tag to noindex a page would it be advisable to include “noidex,follow”? Would I be right in thinking this would allow link juice to flow into and around the page but not allocate it to the page itself as it’s not going to be included in the noindex?

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:35:49 +0000

I’m also a fan of lists, as I find they focus your efforts as well as being a good reference to review things further down the line.

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:02:26 +0000

You mentioned internal linking briefly, but I’d add that its growing more and more important. Having some nice content on your site that gains in links, and then does proper linking back throughout your site is a great way to tell the search engines what all your pages are about, not to mention boost those pages’ individual rankings.

By: Aidan

Aidan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:36:41 +0000

excellent article. Finally someone has summed seo into a clear and concise article. Great for beginners

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:09:15 +0000

1. Picking the right keywords/phrases to optimize for Performing minor “on page” changes to help search engines navigate and rank the site 2. Performing link building activities to generate one way backlinks using the keywords/phrases as the anchor text when appropriate 3. Picking keywords and phrases. The most important decision for the search engine optimization process is the selection of the “right” keywords and phrases to optimize for.

By: Garry K.

Garry K. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:40:54 +0000

Very nice article..I am quite handy with the SEO term and more often varies the website with the keywords..recently and from past year i am using SERP analytics keyword tool-http://www.serpanalytics.com/tools/top_keywords and am not promoting anything..just to know more from you do you use this tool or there must be something more in this tool that is more helpful..

Thanks anyways!

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