5 Sure Fire SEO Tips for Dummies

July 10, 2008 by Joseph

5 Sure Fire SEO Tips for Dummies

When it comes to SEO, every webmaster and for that matter any affiliate marketer should know the following three basic truths.

Search engine optimization is a wide and very contentious topic that can easily drain up your energy and derail you from your core goal, unless of course you are in for it as a career.

There are basic search engine optimization tips and techniques that you must incorporate into your website or blog in order to effectively compete with other millions of web pages with the same content, products and services as yours.

Finally you don’t need to become an expert in SEO but you must learn some core basic SEO concepts, ideas and techniques that are fundamental in creating an effective well optimized page.

Having said so, below is a list of five basic Search Engine Optimization tips that any serious affiliate marketer should learn to utilize each time they create a new page.

1.) Choose you main keywords carefully. This calls for you to research and lay down a blueprint comprising of your theme concept that has been broken down from general into very specific phrase that you are going to use. Because this merits a full discussion, here is an action plan that can help you come up with a list of effective theme concept keywords to utilize in your SEO campaign.

2.) You should choose one main keyword on each page you write. Use that main keyword on your title, in your Meta description, on your page heading, in your introduction, within your body and on one text link. You should also at least bold or italics your main keyword within the content. When using image within your page, also make sure to include your main keyword in the alt tags.

3.) Save your page using you main keyword phrase, then submit your Sitemap to the leading search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK. You are free to submit to other search engines but these four will work as far as the 80/20 rule is concerned.

4.) Manage your link campaign. You should get other sites to link into your homepage and other deep pages on your site. You should use appropriate anchor text in your links comprising of your keywords from one above. You should also make sure that you vary the anchor text so that it looks natural as far as the search engines are concerned. When linking the main rule of thumb should be securing quality backlinks as opposed to quantity.

5.) Join Social media and social network sites. The emergence of social networking and bookmarking sites is rapidly changing the traditional use of search engine optimization techniques. Public interest is the main driving force and power to reckon with while using this as a promotional technique that outweighs self centered interests. The more people share your content the more it gains interest with the search engines. Because this too is a topic that merits its own discussion, for now you can learn more about social networking here.

The above 5 SEO will hopefully help you have your pages gain interest, credibility and authority from the search engines. For a more detailed discussion on these controversial Search Engine Optimization techniques, here is a list of three other resources that you might want to read on for more insightful information.