Learning SEO

[ruudvn]

Hi all

I am steadily trying to learn about SEO, and have grasped the basic ideas of using h1, h2 and like the meta tags and meta description. I am also in the process of looking into back links. What i am unsure about is, how do you know when you need to update your content? How long do you recommend before updating?.

What are the next stages and would i just leave this a couple of months and watch my website go up in the search engines. If not what do i need to do to get my website in the top rankings?

 

[Faevilangel]

I would sign up for a service such as Google analytics, and watch the reports, find where visitors are going, for how long etc.
Using this, you can find out if the content is making the visitors interested or just pushing them away... Make ammendments as you see fit..
Also do ranking searches, find where you're ranking in google etc for your main keywords and make ammendments to title tags and the content to try and get the keywords.

It's all down to patience and research...

 

[SEO Lady]

Try this http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=32162

 

[Faevilangel]

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=151540

 

[bentley1988]

thanks for this info really appreciated.

 

[Birmingham]

how do you know when you need to update your content?

when you want google to pick up ur new content more quickly than is currently happening, update more often and google will check back more often.

How long do you recommend before updating?

more regularly on the index pages; less regularly on internal articles. weekly updates on index pages are better than monthly. internal articles, no big deal either way, so long as ur updates are extensions rather than deletions (avoid deleting the main content that google is already sending people to ur site to read)

What are the next stages and would i just leave this a couple of months and watch my website go up in the search engines. If not what do i need to do to get my website in the top rankings?

there's lots of factors involved in SEO. are you asking for a full analysis of ur website?

 

[Srivvy]

Hi ruudvn

Its important to note the difference between Google visiting your site often and ranking well for your ideal phrases.

For example, if your site sells soap and you update your site every day, Google will visit your site often because you update your site often. However, you still will not get good rankings for say - 'soap suppliers' if those words dont appear in your content and / or incoming links.

Its more important to focus on quality content - including the products / services / info you offer, as well as the phrases you think people would type in to find your site.

A site with quality, relevant content that is only updated once every six months will get higher rankings than a site with little or poor content that is updated every day for the sake of it.

 

[loubycee]

Some fantastic responses to someone very new at this.

You must remember that finetuning your site, optimising it, researching keywords and placing them properly is all quite time consuming but well worth it and easier to learn if you're interested in it.

Just remember, if your site has relevant content that is interesting to visitors, and offers them something (quality info, advice, knowledge etc) then those people may return if they know they can gain something again next time

Best of luck, I love to hear people that want to get stuck into their site and really make it the best!!

L

 

[justinethomas28]

Hi ruudvn

Good query here as I had the same. I am glad to find my answer here.
Thanks to all for giving such nice information to learn seo. I will keep visiting this post to get some more information about seo algorithms.

 

[David Pickup]

If you want to learn about seo my advice would be this.

Open up a new google mail account. Search on google using keywords related to see etc.

Sign up to every mailing mailing list giving you advice.

You can spend thousands on courses ebooks and inner circles, these people are very good at selling to you and get you to part with your cash, a lot of them are very very good.

But a lot of what they are giving you is online for free, and most of these gurus will send you good information for free anyway.

All you have to do is delete the spammers and the rubbish.

The idea for the seperate google mail is so you a seperate file for your seo learning, when you need it, and not getting side tracked from your main emails.