Home > SEO Q&A > I want to get started in SEO where do I start. Can anyone point me in the right direction.?

melihoe August 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) now-a-days covers quite a range of items that your website will need.

First of all there is no single item that will do the trick. Its a combination of of various pieces to the puzzle. Part of it lies within your website and the other part you can call an "outreach" program by getting your links onto other websites (e.g. blogs, social bookmarks, forums, press releases, etc)

Outside of that you also are missing a DocType in your HTML code. Take a look here:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

While you’re at the W3C take a look at your validation errors too:
http://validator.w3.org/

We have an article that we wrote you can read here:
http://www.smartfindsmarketing.com/articles.php?p=articles_define_marketing

Also, touch base with Webmaster forums for more information like the following three:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.v7n.com/forums/
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/

Also, here is another good resource:
http://www.seochat.com

One last thing. You will need to get into the process of generator a sitemap of your website regularly as a sitemap.xml file. You can read more about this at http://www.sitemaps.org created by Google, Yahoo and MSN and you will need a sitemap generator at http://www.smartfindsmarketing.com/xml_sitemaps.php You can then submit your sitemaps to the search engines in their respective areas.

Learn about Link Popularity, Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Keyword Density

Hope this helps

emmasnw August 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm

Attend some SEO conferences.

If you need to learn about Search Engine Optimization. There are a number of factors that influence search engine ranking. These articles will get you started:

Organic SEO – http://www.small-business-software.net/organic-seo.htm

Search Engine Tips – http://www.small-business-software.net/search-engine-tips.htm

How to Influence Search Engine Ranking – http://www.developer-resource.com/how-to-optimize-for-organic-search.htm

SEO Guide – http://www.developer-resource.com/search-engine-optimization-guide.htm

Spider Food – http://www.developer-resource.com/spider-food.htm

Free Web Marketing Tips – http://www.small-business-software.net/free-web-marketing.htm

doug02346 August 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm

I like http://searchenginewatch.com/
They have SEO blogs, columns, articles, job boards and lots more

sonika m August 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm

join good SEO forum , google have blogs on google adsense , adwords and help tips . read them throughly and read google guidliness..
Google groups also helpfull to you .. Keep update your self with mattcutt blog ..
Thanks,
Swani
http://www.globalhunt.in

Crimcheck August 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm

First, start with the basics. I mean the very basics of SEO. If you have been reading and learning so far, then great.

If you go to this website http://www.gnc-web-creations.com/seo-optimization.htm and sign up for the classes this will get you started. They are free. They are very good classes and will get you up to speed.

Here is another assignment. Go here and read this document http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization. As a matter of fact seomoz is great to just read in general.

Here is another great site to get started on as well http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=webmasters

This should be enough to get you started. Like I said start with the basics and continue from there. Do not listen to people who have quick schemes. There is a right way and a wrong way to do this, I don’t want to sound condescending but MOST of the people you run into on Yahoo Answers really have no clue.

Good Luck and most of all have fun!

Aldric Chang August 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm

Hi,

I’ve been doing Internet Marketing for 2 years now and I’ve had success with my SEO efforts.

I strongly attribute it to a few areas of discipline –
1. Article Marketing
2. Answering questions on Yahoo
3. Backlinks from good websites and forums
4. Building quality content
5. Meta Tags

All these can be broken down to Online Optimization and Offline Optimization.

I have found a few products teaching these techniques very effectively and highly recommend you check them out.