The Easiest Secret SEO Tips

For the Gods of Google to accept your site, you must do more than offer up a golden cow. Here are the Ten Commandments to follow. Sinners will face purgatory with a penalty or be sent to hell with a lifetime ban.

The First Commandment - Thou Shalt Have Fresh Content

The easiest way to accomplish this is with a daily blog. One to three paragraphs of original content related to your site.

The Second Commandment - Thou Shalt Do Keyword Research

For each of your daily blogs, go to the Free Keyword Researcher on our Free Biz Tools page and identify a keyword string of 2-4 words long to title your blog.

Use the Keyword string in your blog content 1-3 times.

The Third Commandment - Thou Shalt Submit Daily Blog to Social Bookmarks

The exact keyword string that you identify for you blog's title will be used in each submission. Change up the description for each submission.

Here are the angels of Google that will help you ascend in the rankings and find a home in Google Heaven:

http://bibsonomy.org
http://bringr.com
http://buddymarks.com/
http://clipclip.org/
http://clipfire.com/
http://del.icio.us/
http://faves.com/home
http://folkd.com/
http://linkagogo.com/
http://mixx.com
http://multiply.com
http://myweb.yahoo.com/
http://netvouz.com/
http://newsvine.com/
http://panamanewsblog.com/
http://pixelgroovy.com
http://reddit.com/
http://searchles.com/
http://shoutwire.com
http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl
http://sphinn.com/
http://spurl.net/
http://startaid.com/
http://theoryoffun.com/
http://wikio.com/
http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/

For the complete list of Social Bookmark Sites go here.

The Fourth Commandment - Thou Shalt Use the Site Name in the Title

The Google Gods want you to be true to yourself and not try to trick your fellow man.

The best way to accomplish this is to use it in the second half of the title. Ex: The Ten Commandments of Search : Sta.rtUp.biz

The Fifth Commandment - Though Shalt Have Links from Directories

Identify the keyword string that you want your index page to rank for and use it in the title of your submissions. Also, only do a couple of submissions each day.

Here is a list of PR4+ directories that have free submission. The $299 Yahoo directory submission is also a good move.

http://www.dmoz.org/ 8
http://www.la-ma.org/ 6
http://www.mxdu.com/ 6
http://www.jayde.com/ 6
http://www.mygreencorner.com/ 6
http://www.ghinmeca.com/ 5
http://directory.classifieds1000.com/ 5
http://www.concensus.org/ 5
http://www.directorydice.com/ 5
http://www.domaining.in/ 5
http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com/ 5
http://www.illumirate.com/ 5
http://www.info-listings.com/ 5
http://www.publimix.net/ 5
http://searchsight.com/Directory.htm 5
http://www.uc33.com/ 5
http://www.amray.com/ 4
http://www.a1webdirectory.org/ 4
http://www.boshuda.com 4
http://www.businesspagesupdate.co.uk/ 4

For the complete list of Free Directories go here.

The Sixth Commandment - Thou Shalt Post Comments on Blogs with Do-Follow

Do-Follow simply means that a link on a page is valued by the Google Gods. Be sure to post a good comment and use the keyword string that you are focusing on as your name.

Here is a list of Do-Follow Blogs:

http://brownsista.com 6
http://foolswisdom.com 6
http://www.billhartzer.com 5
http://howtosplitanatom.com 5
http://andybeard.eu 5
http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net 5
http://www.davidairey.com 5
http://www.fastlanetransport.ca/blog 5
http://lifelearningtoday.com 5
http://www.pixelheadonline.com/blog 4
http://www.logon.ie 4
http://www.howtowakeupearly.com 4
http://www.joebartender.com 4
http://jakeldaily.com 4
http://tallfreak.com 4
http://blog.achille.name 4

For the complete list of Do-Follow Blogs go here.

The Seventh Commandment - Thou Shalt Use Signatures in Forums with Do-Follow

Focus your signature around the main keyword string for your home page. Try to be the first response to new posts and participate on long discussion threads that will consistently be pushed to the top of the main discussion page.

Here is a list of major forums with Do-Follow signatures:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/- SEO
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/ - music
http://forums.seroundtable.com/ - seo
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/
http://www.startups.co.uk/ - business
http://www.v7n.com/forums/ - seo, webmaster
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/ - webmaster
http://www.webicy.com/ - Webmaster, seo
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/ - comic books
http://bzimage.org/ - photo
http://www.earnersforum.com/forumsindex.php - ecommerce, advertising
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/ - domains
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/ - books

For the complete list of Do-Follow Forums go here.

The Eighth Commandment - Thou Shalt Use Free Classified Ads

This is an easy way to get a little push and some customers at the same time.

Here is a list of some of the large free online classified sites:

http://www.craigslist.org/
http://www.thefreeadforum.com/vbull/
http://www.adlandpro.com/
http://www.gumtree.com/
http://classifieds.yahoo.com/
http://www.google.com/base
http://caklassifieds.com/
http://classifieds.myspace.com/
http://expo.live.com/default.aspx
http://www.kijiji.com/
http://www.adlandpro.com/
http://www.backpage.com/classifieds/
http://www.usfreeads.com/
http://www.oodle.com/
http://www.adpost.com/

For the complete list of Free Classified Websites go here.

The Ninth Commandment - Thou Shalt Create and Submit RSS Feeds

Here is a list of free RSS feed directories that will get your feed slurped up by Google:

http://www.aspin.com/
http://www.bloogz.com/
http://www.daypop.com/
http://www.daytimenews.com/
http://www.devasp.com/
http://www.dummysoftware.com/
http://www.feed24.com/
http://www.feedage.com/
http://www.feedbomb.com
http://www.feedcat.net/
http://www.feed-directory.com/
http://www.feedfury.com
http://www.feedooyoo.com/
http://www.feeds2read.net
http://www.feedsee.com/
http://www.feedsfarm.com/

For the complete list of Free RSS Directories go here.

The Tenth Commandment - Thou Shalt Not Forget about Google Images

Google images accounts for a large amount of traffic and should not be ignored. On each daily blog, you should have an image that is clickable. Remember that Google images shows a bunch of thumbnails and not your blog content. Then use the keyword string to name the image, alt tag, and caption.

Although I may not be Moses, this list just may save the soul of your website.

Share This Page

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by GramJulia on June 12, 2008 at 4:51pm: Damn! There is not one of these commandments that I keep. I must have been busy worshiping some other gods not to have taken notice. But now that you have enlightened me with all these "Thou shalt ...", Moses, thou shalt now consider me a true convert. But pray tell me, how I could be loyal to the first commandment when the nature of my website would make the task of updating it on a daily basis much more daunting than crossing the Red Sea.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by M.B.Dattu on June 18, 2008 at 3:23am: Great and worthfull info.
Once again thanks a lot for your valuable information.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Taryono putranto on June 19, 2008 at 9:21am: Damn very useful advice, i will be very busy now; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Daniel on June 20, 2008 at 7:44am: Very Very Good!!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Boris on June 20, 2008 at 5:30pm: I would like to address the fourth commandment:

I rarely will use the business or website name in a page title. The only exception is if the name is also a keyword. My business is Tucson SEO Solution. None one ever looks for Tucson SEO Solutions but they do look for Tucson SEO. So I will include it in the title.

A better use of the website or business name is in the page description Meta Tag. Page Titles are for keywords only! Most businesses and websites are not going to be searched by name, and those that are will get picked up from the page description.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tatyana Gann on June 23, 2008 at 1:15am: Great advice and I love t he way you wrote it as commandments!

Sincerely

Tatyana Gann; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Theron on June 23, 2008 at 6:05pm: Thanks "TheMaster",

I'm new to SEO and I've been looking for a list like this. It may be your 10 commandments, but it's going to be my SEO bible.

Thanks,
Theron
Founder, Schmoozii
www.schmoozii.com
An Online Community for Small Business Owners; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris on June 27, 2008 at 6:43pm: I surf aggressively looking around for this stuff and I have not even hear of half of it! Oh dear I gotta go under the bed here for a bit.
Still there is so much content out there these days ...
I'm trying to get a small honest community of people submitting google add and revenue makings on my site at - inetincome.ning.com
thank you again; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mandy on June 28, 2008 at 9:45pm: Free Search Engine Optimization of Your Web Site
I need help Optimizing My site. I have had the site for about 4yrs but not sure how to optimize it. The site is www.steelebulldogs.com Could you please help me with doing this. Thanks so much
Mandy; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SEO Sarasota on June 30, 2008 at 6:28am: Hello The Master
Appreciate your list, But I would not agree with everything you have listed.

1. You dont have to necessarily Have Name in the Title, If it makes sense to the visitors add it. Rather than this you should have given this one: Have unique Titles for each page with keywords
2. The Second Commandement should go first, Before even coming up with Content, do the Keyword Research
3. Submit Daily Blog to Social Bookmarks ? You mean keep Submitting your blog Daily?
4. How about Descriptions? The Descriptions are important for the visitors. Even thou it does have some impact on Rankings. Describe what that page is about in the description.
5. Though Shalt Have Links from Directories : Having links is important but you dont have to get links form any Directory, Get links from quality Directories and related directories. Dint you knwo that Google recently Banned sites and directories for buying and selling links? Here is the link to banned directories: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-makes-a-good-web-directory-and-why-...
6. Go to http://www.seomoz.org/blog or http://searchengineland.com and learn from Experts.
7. How about internal linking ? Anchor links etc; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alphonso Rodgers on July 1, 2008 at 10:02pm: Thank you for all this useful information. I have a lot to learn and at least now I have something to study. I will be reveiwing your commandments often. For now can you tell me just what a RSS feed is?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Desiree Richardson on July 2, 2008 at 12:00am: Can you have a look at my website. I gave you a rating of 5 and I am adding it as a link on my squidoo lens.

http://www.richandrichhomeopportunities.biz; ▶ Reply to This