It’s been a while since I’ve posted but hopefully you’ll feel it was worth the wait.  I’ve just put up the first video from my SEO Blueprint course on YouTube and I wanted to share it with you all as well. You’re limited to 10 minutes on YouTube so I had to break it up into 2 videos which I’ve posted here. It covers doing your SEO competition keyword research manually. So what are you waiting for? Watch them and enjoy.

Part 1

Part 2

I hope this information is useful for you. If you want to learn seo check out SEO Blueprint at that link now.

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one thing that many webmasters are obsessing over. Quite a few site owners are investing countless hours tweaking and enhancing their internet sites, adding keyword and key phrase rich material, and spending hours acquiring inbound links, to ensure that their website will rank better in the search engines. It is actually a fact that over 90% of internet surfers make use of search engines to arrive at web sites on a regular basis, however , should web masters and site designers develop and tweak websites for search engines, or for their web-site visitors?

The answer to the problem is both, but mainly for the human visitor. The main reason for building a web site is to enable you to obtain targeted traffic. With no site visitors, an internet site will be pointless. No matter how many features and how useful your website is, with no traffic, your design and functionality don’t mean much. Though search engines like google will help bring in traffic, web sites which have been designed for search engines, in many cases are not designed for human visitors and all the traffic your internet site gets is going to be worthless. Prospects will take a look at and then shortly leave your web site and not revisit again. Returning readers usually are essential to
the success of every internet site.

A great example of optimizing for search engines only is quite a few webmasters often stuff tons of key phrases into the Meta-Tags; this is a extremely bad practice and may get the web site blacklisted. Moreover, this black hat technique does not benefit the visitors.

Therefore, when developing an internet site, you need to make it for human visitors. When you have content pieces that are way too search term dense, the caliber of the article will not be as good as it ought to be, and quite frankly, a lot of your prospects are going to be irked if you keep using words such as “mesothelioma” or “home insurance loan” to get your site high in the search rankings for these words. They may abandon your site and most probably never ever revisit. Any time you build a internet site in which content material is created for visitors to read and is well crafted, chances are you’ll get numerous return visitors who like the high quality of the articles you supply and come back often to examine any new content you may have supplied. When you have quality content more people will link through to your website, without you having to build the links, and your web site will be ranked higher in search engines.

In addition, instead of spending too much time link building for search engine optimization purposes, this precious time may be more effectively spent on adding functions to your website which might encourage a lot more individuals to come back to your site and stay for a lengthier time frame.

In summary, although investing a lot of time for SEO will increase your search engine rank, if you do not also pay attention to providing quality content the visitors you get from your SEO efforts will not be beneficial since odds are they will not stay very long or return ever again. When you build your internet sites for individuals, your visitors will grow and search engine rankings can go up easily. Hence, the best way to create a successful web site is always to build for people as well as the search engines. In the long run this can move you up the rankings faster with less link building work on your part.

If you need help to learn SEO follow this link

Since I wrote a post back in July about everthing I know about SEO a lot has changed. That has promted me to make a course totally covering SEO called SEO Blueprint.

I’m pretty busy getting everything set up so let me just give you a quick summary of what’s in this killer system.

There’s a fifty+ page no fluff manual covering everything about SEO including keyword research, On-Page and Off-Page SEO plus some insites into Internet Marketing in general. If you have read this blog at all you know I’m not kidding when I say “no Fluff”.

There will also be 5 video moduals totaling over an hour of video. These will be over-the-shoulder videos showing you how to do everything that’s covered in the book. Once you’ve read the book and watched these videos you’ll be ready to Dominate the SERPs easy.

I’m also throwing in a great bonus package to give you every tool you need to be successful with this system and I think you will be pleased when you see the price for all this.

Tha’s all for now but check back often beause I’ll be giving you a link for SEO Blueprint in next couple of days.

I realised that I left something out in my post “Everything I Know About Seo” and that is linking within your own site or internal linking.

When you think of links most people think of them coming from other sites. You almost never here anyone talk about linking within your own site and this can be very valuable.

I sometimes forget about this myself. Anchor text links within the content of one page linking to another page on your site will be helpful for ranking for that keyword or keyword phrase.

You can also use this method to link to your category pages (and the home page if you have one). The same principles that are used in links from outside your site should be followed when linking internally such as not always using the same text to link to a page.

I’m sorry if this post is a little stiff but it’s 1:30 am here and I’m getting tired.

Leave a comment good or bad.

I was trying to come up with my next blog post and was going over in my mind what I was good at and what I was not good at. The long list was what I’m not good at, but I am pretty good at SEO or Search Engine Optimization.

So grab a cup of coffee, a pop or, my favorite, an ice cold beer and settle in because I’m going to tell you everything I know about SEO including “on page” and “off page”.

It’s really not rocket science but a lot of people try to make it seem more difficult than it is. There are no magic bullets or instant traffic formulas but if you follows the steps below you will get traffic and plenty of it.

On Page:

This is simple and although it dose not account for much of where the search engines will rank you, it is important. You should have the keyword or keyword phrase that you want to rank for in your Title, description and once or twice in the body of your content.

Your content needs to be ORIGINAL and written naturally. DO NOT try to stuff your article with the keyword you are trying to rank for. That’s all there is to “on page”.

A quick note about keywords:

When choosing your keywords try to get into the minds of the searcher. Are they just beginning their search? Are they looking for more information? Or are they ready to BUY! Look at these 3 keywords

• Cookies
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Mrs Smiths’ Chocolate Chip Cookies

Which of these 3 do you think is ready to buy? If you picked the last one you’re right.

Which would you rather have? 1000 visitors a day that bring you 2 sales or 50 that bring you 7 sales. The amount of traffic you get is not as important as the type of traffic you get and the buying words are often much less competitive!

Off Page:

This is where the rankings come from and it all about links. If you get the right links you will get rankings. How do I get links? What kind of links do I need? How many do I need? I’m glad you asked.

In today’sWeb 2.0 Internet this is not as hard (or as expensive) as it once was. Links are there for the taking as long as you are willing to put in a little work. How many links you need depends on how much competition there is for the keyword you are trying to rank for ( to find competition search for the word or phrase in Google with quotes around it). If you keep the competition below 30,000 you will not need that many links to rank.

The type of links are not as important as having a variety of types. Don’t just have social bookmarks or forum posts orSquidoo (Hubpages etc.) or blog comments but have some of each. And here’s something that is different from what most people are saying: they don’t all have to be from sites related to your niche!

Think about it. Dose CNN only have links from other news sites? Are all the links coming to Adobe only from other photo software companies? Of course not.

You want your link profile to look natural. This also means not using the same anchor text in all of your links. Mix it up. Use several variations of your keyword and a few that are just your web site (mywebsite .com) or “click here”. The search engines — especially Google — are becoming much smarter and you need to take that into consideration.

Another thing to consider in looking “natural” is not to have too many links showing up too fast. When first getting started don’t add more than 6 or 7 links a day and vary that number. Get 3 links one day, 7 the next and maybe none the next and 4 the day after that.

This last point really relates to “on page” but I thought that it fit in better here. Link out from your site to an authority site or two. Don’t use keywords that you are trying to rank for but do link to them. This looks natural and will give you credibility with the search engines. It will Associate you with these authority sites.

Many people don’t seem to understand that links pass good things (or bad) in both directions. I have had Google send someone to a site of mine from the anchor text in an outbound link. That was the only place on the site that the phrase was used and yet in my stats it showed a visitor from Google using that search phrase.

Building A Free Mini-Network:

One great way to get free quality links to your site is to build your own mini-network in the same niche as your web site. You do this using Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, Xanga, Wetpaint, Wordpress.com,Blogger, Multiply and Vox. This is very powerful!

You can get a free account at all of these web sites (and others) plus they are extremely easy to use. Let me make a quick point here: DO NOT let any of this intimidate you. Getting started in something new always seems overwhelming at first but just do it. All of these sites will walk you through the process of setting them up. I know that you can do this.

You will need to have some content related to your niche for each of these Web 2.0 sites. If you are not a good writer you can outsource this (www.needanarticle.com is very reasonable) or rewrite articles you find on one of the article directories like www.goarticles.com. But don’t use them as is, rewrite them. Did you notice that I just linked out to 2 authority sites?

Once you have your content start building your sites. The first site that you build and your main web site will be the focus of your linking from the others. When I build one of these mini-nets I’ll use 3-5 of these sites. You can put them in any order you like but if you use WordPress.com put it in the 1st or 2nd position because they frown on large numbers of outbound links.

You do not want to put any affiliate links on these sites. They should be purely informational.

Your first Web 2.0 site will have 2 links on it in this order:

1. Your main site
2. An authority site

The second Web 2.0 site will have 3 links on it:

1. Your Main Site
2. Your first web 2.0 site
3. A different authority site

Your third Web 2.0 site will have 4 links on it:

1. Your main site
2. Your first Web 2.0 site
3. Your second Web 2.0 site
4. Another authority site

The fourth Web 2.0 site will have 5 links on it:

1. Your main site
2. The first Web 2.0 site
3. The second  Web 2.0 site
4. The third Web 2.0 site
5. Yet another authority site

The last Web 2.0 site will have 6 links on it:

1. Your main site
2. Web 2.0 site #1
3. Web 2.0 site #2
4. Web 2.0 site #3
5. Web 2.0 site #4
6. And you guessed it another authority site

Now go out and do the same things for these Web 2.0 sites that you did for your main site. Social bookmarking, blog commenting etc. etc. and these sites all have RSS feeds. So submit all the RSS feeds to a feed aggregator like Feedage.com.

The only thing left to do is add some new content to these sites every few days for a couple of weeks. There you have it, your own mini-network that will pass major link juice to your main site.

Thanks for reading all the way through to the end. Put this into action and the time spent will be well worth it.

To your success