Want To See The SEO Marketing Strategy I Am Using For This Blog?
If you’re considering an SEO strategy for your blog, I hope the keywords I am targeting can give you an idea for a starting point. For Marketing-Startups.com, the following are the keywords for the blog’s SEO marketing strategy. Please keep in mind that for this blog, I have a long time horizon and because of this, I can spread my focus on a larger number of keywords based on a variety of topics. If I were implementing an SEO marketing strategy for a company, I would focus on only 5 keywords for a given period of time.
General Keywords: Read more
Why All Companies (Even Startups) Need An SEO Strategy
“Most startups don’t know this.”
Most startup founders that I have met do not understand why they need to have an SEO strategy. The startup founders typically believe that the majority of their traffic, now and in the future, will come either from direct traffic or blogs/media websites linking to their website. To these entrepreneurs, traffic from search engines appears to be irrelevant.
Although at first, for most companies the majority of traffic will come from certain blogs/media websites, in the long term the majority of their traffic will come from search engines. Read more
SEO Strategies That They Don’t Want You To know About
The following SEO strategy is one that works very well. It is considered more of a “black hat” strategy, however many prominent websites have used this and many consultants believe the strategy is legitimate.
Here is the underlying premise of the strategy:
1. The number of relevant inlinks to your website will be a large determinant of your SEO ranking
2. In order to increase the number of relevant links from other websites, a website can create other websites with SEO keyword friendly URLs. Read more
How To Receive High Quality Inlinks
Amateurs write for themselves, professionals write for others
In a previous article, All You Need To Know About SEO In 7 Words, I mentioned the 4 ways to receive high quality inlinks. I did not mention the options of paying for inlinks (which can get you easily flagged on Google Search and is not recommended) nor did I mention signing up for services which provide inlinks in exchange for you providing links on your website (also not recommended.)
You should never pay for a service to provide inlinks to your website. These inlinks will not only not benefit you, but will most likely get your website blacklisted on Google Search.
The following are 4 ways you can receive high quality inlinks: Read more
10 SEO Tips For The Advanced Marketer
I want preface this by saying that the below are for more advanced marketing individuals and that, even before implementing the strategies below, what is most important is that you create keyword rich content and high quality inlinks. I have found that individuals tend to do one of the following when encountering SEO strategies: Read more
Creating An Effective Blog Post For SEO In 7 Steps
Here is a list of rules that you should follow for creating an effective blog post for Search Engines:
1. 1 Keyword: When creating an SEO strategy, after you have defined 3-5 keywords you are targeting, focus each blog post on 1 keyword.
2. 2-1-1: Include your keyword twice in the first paragraph and once in all other paragraphs.
3. Include keyword in titles: When creating titles, remember to include your keyword in the title.
4. 200 Words: Make sure the blog post is at least 200 words. Read more
Why I Do Not Recommend SEO Consultants And Products
I am very wary of SEO products and consultants that only offer SEO services for 2 reasons:
1. Consultants who only specialize in SEO tend to market their services as providing these techniques that you “need” them to provide for your website. To support their claim they provide examples of very advanced SEO services (I have seen a number of individuals do this.) The truth is that 80-90% of the results from SEO come from work that can be done by any company with a little guidance. Read more
An SEO Strategy In 3 Easy Steps
There are a number of companies I have spoken with that currently blog but have not developed an SEO strategy. Management at these companies often state that they do not have time to implement an SEO strategy.
The following is how you can implement an SEO strategy that will not add any additional time to your work:
1. Spend 5 minutes on Google’s Keyword Tool to locate 5 keywords you are aiming for.
2. Remember that these keywords should be receiving traffic but should not be the most competitive keywords.
3. In each blog post focus on using one keyword you are targeting. At the very end of the article include the keyword twice in the first paragraph and once throughout each of the remaining paragraphs.
If you decide to add an image, ALT tag the image with the keyword you are using.
Although implementing these 3 steps will not take your company any additional time, it will greatly increase your website’s SEO strategy.
All You Need To Know About SEO In 7 Words
There are only seven words that you need to know about SEO and they are the following underlined words.
Using this will put you ahead of 95% of companies online:
Focus on creating content with select keywords and on receiving high quality inlinks.
Understanding the above will put you ahead of 95% of companies online. Unfortunately, and perhaps there is a reason behind this, SEO experts and consultants tend to confuse entrepreneurs and business owners by proposing a number of very advanced SEO strategies. Although these strategies may have an impact on your search rankings, what is most important is that you include content with select keywords and focus on receiving high quality inlinks.
I am going to explain these 2 strategies in this post and will further expand on both in future articles: Read more
