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.

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Beasley on August 21, 2008 at 8:14pm: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the main goal of every webmaster to get high rankings for keywords like marketing, networks, hosting, or whatever it is you're selling or promoting on your site and not the name of your site or your name?
I have a friend who has a site with a very unusual name, like Spunkinsides or something like that...so he tells everyone he knows to type that in search to find him. Who in their right mind is going to be looking for a word like that out of the blue if no one tells them to look it up? You can Google my name and find hundreds of things I've written, but that's because I've written a lot of articles and signed my name to them. Wouldn't a person have to pay high bids on a specific keyword or phrase for it to show up at the top of Google for that specific word or phrase unless it's something very rare or unusual?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Peter Davis on January 29, 2009 at 1:22pm: Great stuff but my head spins whenever I read all this.
I am but a romance writer
and thought I gave up all this when I left big business.
My head is full, may I go home?
I need an assistant. Volunteers???

Seriously, thanks for the great advice.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Abotsi on July 3, 2008 at 11:47am: Great input, definitely useful for a beginner, but for serious internet marketing one will need to take a step deeper.

Also I kind of disagree with some of the "commandments", or otherwise think time and resources can be better used to achieve a greater success. Examples are:

#2: keyword research goes beyond just using keyword suggestion tools. One need a more comprehensive approach. And as someone pointed out earlier this needs to be done prior to creating content (content needs to be created around the identified keywords)

#3: this is going to take you a serious amount of time if you have several sites/blogs to manage. Plus most of the social bookmarking sites don't allow multiple submissions of pages from the same site. So daily submission might actually get you banned.

#4: not true is your site name is unrelated to your main keywords (business name for instance). Google will not penalize you for using your using your main keywords in your title. The title is too important of an asset to waste it.

#5: General directories today are not what they used to be a couple of years before. Although it is always good to get additional links, you need to make sure that the directory is not selling links. How many of site owners do you know who have got their sites listed in DMOZ recently? And $299 can be better used than spending it on a Yahoo review (unless you are a multinational of course). Finally you need to do some variations when submitting, if all your links are with the same anchor text that might mean red flags for your site.

#6 & #7: No follow links may not be useful for certain search engines (Google is not the only search engine around), but can make your link building appear more natural while bringing some needed traffic especially if you get it from highly relevant or popular sites within your industry.

#9: I sometimes worry about RSS feeds especially for new sites because it means your content is duplicated all over the web, and if your site is not strong enough other sites may rank higher than yours for searches relevant to your articles. It might even push you to the supplemental index.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Katina on July 3, 2008 at 9:47pm: Hello. I need major help with a website I just started. I was told by an SEO company that there is so much competition in the field that my website is included in that it could take close to a year to optimize my site. They suggested I try google ad words for quicker results. Can you take a look at my site and content and tell me what you think. Also, can you help me with optimizing it. I market an online credit card application site www.creditsider.com. Thanks.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Katina on July 3, 2008 at 9:52pm: I noticed a few companies that submit to blog posts for you. You can subit an article to them with up to three links and then they submit your article to 740 blogs for a fee. They promise over 2000 backlinks just by doing this. Is this a good idea? It would be for my website www.creditsider.com.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Patrick Abotsi on July 4, 2008 at 8:59am: What keywords are you targeting?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Katina on July 4, 2008 at 6:03pm: I am targeting the keyword credit card, instant approval, low interest, and a few others. I am still confused about keywords though. Not sure which ones are less competitive for my site.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Patrick Abotsi on July 4, 2008 at 8:26pm: Your keyword are way too broad and extremely competitive. A search for "Credit card" for instance gives 187 million results on Google, with the top 20 been mostly industry resources, very old sites or sites with an incredible number of links, all which are sites that can be very difficult to outrank (because it is what SEO is about). mastercard.com doesn't even make it to the first page though they have 3.6 million backlinks! For such a keyword even with a very good SEO you should consider yourself lucky if you get into the top 50 in one or two years.

You will need to do some proper keyword research and come up with keyword phrases that will target a special niche that you can get rankings for more easily. The niche could be related to your location (city/state), the type of customers you are focusing on, or specific brands of credit cards your site is focused on etc.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Katina on July 7, 2008 at 11:29am: Interesting. What is the best way to do keyword researh for each keyword I could use? Also would submitting to directories be a good idea to increase traffic?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Katina on July 7, 2008 at 11:35am: I was thinking of using one of those companies that sell targeted internet traffic, is this a good idea for an immediate boost to your site? Also, what exactlly are backlinks and how do I go about getting the. I am really new to all of this.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by George on August 8, 2008 at 8:15pm: Just wondering? Do you think that targeting in local areas say like my city or state would raise my ranking. George from Sunny Puerto Rico.; ▶ Reply to This