subject: 3 SEO Strategies For The New Internet Marketers [print this page] You can learn a lot but if you don't use the basics the correct way, you won't succeed. Given below are a few SEO tips for beginners.
Being fully committed is one piece of SEO advice that will help you make significant progress. Search engine optimization isn't something you do only once. Search engines keep changing their algorithm and you need to keep up with them. Since what is effective now might not work as well later, SEO demands long term commitment from you. You always have to be in tune with any modifications that might arise. You will find it simpler to beat your competitors if you are more current. Besides that, as with any field, search engines are continuously progressing and improving daily, which is a positive thing.
When writing content for your site, your first focus should be on the user rather than the search engines. You don't want to make things harder on your users, which is what will happen if you concentrate on the search engines. If your content is not user friendly, then search engines will ignore it as well. Write with real humans in mind because they are the ones who are searching. Yes, you do need keywords in your text but don't stuff your content with them. You will be fine if you simply spread your keywords throughout your content.
A robots.txt file is useful if your site has any kind of duplicate content such as folder names, archives or file names so that you have a way to tell the search engines what to ignore and what to crawl. It's not good for duplicate content to show up in search engine results, and using this file will make sure that any such pages are ignored. Some pages you want to exclude from being indexed, but you should have a sitemap for showing the search engines what you do want them to index. Search engine spiders can find all the elements of your site more easily if you have a sitemap.
So, you now see that if you want traffic, SEO is the way to go, and you need to give yourself time to learn it properly.
You must be committed to it if you hope to see a rise in the search engine ranks. If you learn more, you will get better.
