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Seo For Dummies 2 – Do you really need SEO?
The short answer is “Probably not”…
The vast majority of the net surfers does not really need SEO, the probability are that you’re a normal blogger, with a small blog and no need to rank #1 for important keywords. (But if you’re something more that a “normal blogger” you’re welcome anyway!)
But you’d like to have more visitors, don’t you?
And you really can… Even if you blog about your hamster or your brand new pair of shoes… Because somewhere in the world there is someone else with an hamster and a genuine love for light blue sneakers, and all you have to do is to find him/her. Or, better you have to help him/her to find you!
That’s exactly what SEO is about. There are people out there intrested in what you have to say.. let’s try to reach them!
Even a simple SEO strategy can dramatically increase the number of visitors of your website, help you to know people intrested in the same things you are and help you to gain public visibility.
If you’re a bit more ambitious you can even start to earn a little from your blog, how much it will be depends on you, but even a little personal blog can easily repay you the hosting. (This way you can have your own www.hamsterandsneakers.com)
Add that SEO is a really intresting and fascinating art, and the first steps are easy and can give you back big benefits… it’s easy to understand why I recommend everybody with a website or a blog to learn some SEO basics. :)
The next post in the Seo for Dummies series will be about how does a search engine works.
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about 5 years ago
Most of my sites are in need of SEO, because they contain information for users, ways and intentions of interacting with users. But there is one site, more of a blog actually, which is rather, a personal one. I’m more interested in sending the link to certain people I know and not to ‘everyone’. I even added robots.txt on it so it won’t be found on search engines :)
And well said with the basic seo doing wonders. Cheers to that
about 5 years ago
If one wants his/her website visited, SEO is a must do!
The SEO basics are, well…basics so that’s easy to learn. Once you “master” the basics, unwillingly you’ll more into it seriously. However, SEO IS an art and not that easy in the end, if you want to master SEO, you’ll need some GOOD patience and a lot of testing, you may not find the time nor the tools to do the tests, but I don’t suggest reading ALL the popular “GET RANKED” spamming articles. Many of’em are lies or just not that right and many intend to say things just to make you use non-proper seo ways so others can rank better, or worse, to make you buy certain accounts on the internet.
This is probably not the post where I can share my view on SEO but here I go:
You will see everywhere “KEYWORDS AND LINK EXCHANGE”.
Well, that’s not entirely true because SEO is relying on more factors, not just on 1, 2 or 3.
The very 1st step in SEO is WEBSITE optimizing, that’s right, I’m talking about ‘your’ site and its source code.
HINTS:
- make good inter-linking*
- add alt and title tags to your images and links
- use the CSS power to reduce the heavy and non-proper html coding.
- lots and lots of content!
and the list goes on.
Barely afterwards, you can think how you can make some other sites to link to you. Either by link exchange (but I less recommend it) because if a site1 links to you and you link back, then the link from site1 is less relevant.
The links towards you must be content related, (i.e. if your site is about dogs, a content related link would be: Here is a good site about dogs and many tricks at the Dogs are Good, visit now.
A good sitemap does wonders for SEO mostly, not for visitors, because then the Search Engine crawlers can index your web pages there.
Use SEO friendly site URLs (i.e. URL Rewrite with htaccess).
Anyway, guess I’ll stop here. If interested, I’m willing to write a whole article about this if Francesco allows me to, eventually making a special topic for it.
Keep up the good work and don’t get scammed people.
about 5 years ago
I forgot to explain the * :)
* inter-linking = linking your own pages between them, like a sitemap does. In that way, the robots will be able to be aware of your pages and index them all.
Inter-linking is AS important as regular linking among websites.
about 2 years ago
Fantastic site, where did you come up with the information in this piece of content? I’m happy I found it though, ill be checking back soon to see what other articles you have.