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questions about some seo stuff
I have a niche driven wordpress multisite blog that I cover a lot of different 'naughtiest of the web' niche content all through out the network. I received a spam post on one of my blogs:
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Allot of this is bullshit, but some of it is true. You will get better results with keywords in your title and your body. I personally agree with your point on number 4, and point number 1 and 2 are stupid.
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Even if you followed all of that advice down to the last detail, you wouldn't notice much (if any) change in your search engine rankings. You are trying to break into a business with competition like no other on the web..."H" tags aren't going to get you ahead of them. Time, links and traffic are what you should be worrying about at this stage.
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I use the Yoast SEO plugin for WP on both of my sites. It has a SEO checker for each page/post and all of these sans the "using all 3 H tags(there's more than three)" are criteria in which it checks for. On site SEO is of course important but I would still say that the "key" to SEO is relevant backlinks, although I'm no expert. If you run WP, you should check the Yoast plugin out. Just a suggestion, it's not like they pay me or anything.
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^^^word on yoast
I feel you OP on wanting to write naturally for people, rather than for google. What I found most helpful initially about the yoast plugin was that it enabled me to write naturally and then tweak things after the fact for better seo. I found in a short time that my writing became more intuned with seo-principles while still feeling natural, because the plugin really helps illustrate specific things you can do to make great text more valuable to google. If I tried to follow all the instructions you got from your spammer I'd write copy none of my customers would want to read as it would no doubt sound clinical and forced. I found Yoast to be an incredibly helpful learning tool because I learned by doing, not just reading. I still love the plugin, but I'm better at seo myself because of what I learned using it. what odd spam, though |
Does yoast conflict with XML sitemaps or all in one seo?
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You have to discuss the topic that you are writing about so the search engines will understand that is on that topic. |
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What Google and other major search engines are looking for are websites that aren't trying to be manipulative and sites that are adding value to its visitors. If you go around trying to be too exact you could get burned, that's why Google has come out with over optimization penalties and things of that nature because they want webmasters to take a more natural approach, still follow the basic rules. I personally have a lot of examples of websites where I just built up a lot of quality pages and I'm ranked on the home page even with very little link building, it's just that I picked the right keywords and posted the best content out of all the competition on the first 2 pages. |
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To see how much effort it puts into these, do a search in your niche and then look at the "search tools" and click on reading level and switch from basic to advanced and check out the difference. Anyway, when was the last time you clicked on a result and thought; "Great use of H tags and bold - shame about the content..." Cheers, Paz. |
Good advice here.
Do not overthink the SEO stuff. Learn the basics of onsite SEO from, say, seobook.com or whatever. Then build links over time AND add content over time. Do not let the site sit idle! And crap inlinks are a waste of time. Pay someone to write articles or blog posts. Pay some other site owners to publish these on their (related) sites/blogs. |
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