There are many seo techniques you should apply, many different strategies to adopt for keyword research most of all. But your goal once you know how to do and how to do it, is to focus on link building.
That’s not news, but still you need to master a bit seo, gain the knowledge first otherwise even link building alone is not going to help you, if you do it wrong.
So you have to do things right but do the right things. Purchase a book or something to learn, you won’t really learn from forums, you just get a tip here and there. Truth be told even on forums specialized about seo you won’t find everything right, you may find false information and theories. SEO masters are not on forums, they’re enjoying the high quality traffic.
As long as you’re not in a paid forum or membership site, that’s another story, but free forums, even if they are the most popular. They’re still abundant with newbies. So that’s not the right place to learn.
Forums are more for discussions than for learning. One other mistake is thinking that to get high rankings you just need to buy a software – or get indexed – or add related content. Means, you just believe in a blue moon.
That’s not the right approach, probably whatever it is you’re trying to do, like playing golf. You think you can beat the professionals without a coach? Think again.
Planning is very important and using mind maps to plan. What you want from your website? Why you wish to do seo? If you want to do seo for traffic that’s not a good reason at all. You need to know also what you’re going to do with the traffic, which are real humans remember. A plan of getting traffic, converting and using it to get results, your bottom line making money.
So jump from trying to make money by playing the lottery, to serious thinking, planning and knowing what you’re going to achieve. Not just shooting without aiming, you’ll get more results and faster while avoiding silly mistakes. Planning itself, while you’re doing it, especially with mind maps you can pin point what it is you can do better, or you can avoid…
So take search engine optimization as one point on the map that you have to follow to get results. This is simple stuff, it can tell you why optimizing for the keyword food is wrong! Why optimizing for the keyword cars is wrong! Why starting seo later not now is wrong! And other simple things like these that can make big differences.
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