subject: Seo For A Year [print this page] January Planning and targetting January Planning and targetting
First you need to pick your two word and three word phrase that you are going to target. Good SEO means being consistent, so make them similar.
February Basic Content Building
First you need to build the right content on your home page, and your products pages. It isnt hard to build the right content, but there are some rules you need to follow.
March Advanced Content Building
If you are not using WordPress or some other blogging platform, you should. The next step in content building is creating information people will want to read that is interesting, particular to your industry, and increases your reputation.
April Basic link building
You are one quarter of the way through your SEO for a Year, now is the time to launch your site. When launching your site you need to create some basic links back to your main site.
May Building a network
Start looking around for the leaders in your industry, and in similar industries, and start commenting on their blogs. Do not try to spam with keywords, just be yourself and up front about your thoughts.
June- Link Exchange
Link exchange is controversial in some SEO circles. Generally you should be encouraging people to link to you without any incentives. A lot of people in SEO think link exchanges are zero sum, because if two people link to each other, they cancel out each other.
July- Analysis
Halfway through your SEO for a year, and July is a good time of the year to take stock and take analysis of what you are doing and what your competitors are doing.
August- Use social media
Social media is more than just Facebook, it is social news as well with things like Digg and Reddit. You should have a profile on at least Digg and Reddit to start promoting your website. You should use Facebook and Twitter to build your network further, and encourage people to share your blog posts.
September- Content syndication
Use our article directory search engine to find the top couple of article websites where you can start to syndicate out your content. Also look for ways to guest blog on other peoples websites, if there is no obvious way, just ask. Write small articles and send them off to magazines.
October- Publicity
Traditional publicity should not be overlooked as a good part of your SEO arsenal.
November- End of year sales
Start planning your end of year sales, and what you are going to do to promote your business in the next three months.
December End of year analysis
At the end of your SEO for a year, the best thing you can do is take stock and see what has worked and what hasnt.
