It can take a lot of time and effort to get to where you want to be in the search engines. How quickly you can climb the search engine rankings depends on many factors, such as: how much competition you have and what tactics you use to improve your SEO.
Some internet marketers find the process of waiting to be frustrating. Instead of just checking and re-checking your stats waiting and hoping, here are some things you can do to help you speed up the SEO process.
Social Bookmarking
By posting social bookmarks for new blog posts, web pages and other online activities, you can drive traffic to your pages as well as make search engines take notice.
Don’t forget to use tags and category names for your blog posts wherever possible. This helps your topic be evident to search engines. The easier you make it for them to see what your site is about, the better rankings you’ll get.
Some activities you might want to try include: StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg, and listing the link on status lines such as in: Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, and MySpace.
Article Marketing
Article directory sites allow you to add backlinks and if you anchor those links with strong keyword phrases you can increase your site’s exposure in search engines.
Web 2.0 Pages
Creating free pages such as Squidoo lenses and HubPages can help search engines take notice. Follow editorial guidelines but consider linking to your site as well as adding RSS feeds to it.
Blog Commenting
Blog commenting on other people’s blogs, especially if the blog is related is a great way to build quality backlinks and traffic. Don’t be tempted to try blog spam. If you use your URL in the URL field and write an insightful and / or helpful comment it’s much more likely to be approved by the blog owner.
Press Releases
Press releases can get picked up by many websites and will link back to your site. Be sure you write about something newsworthy, such as a product launch, major milestone, or re-design in order to make your press release newsworthy.
Forum Posting
Forum posting in a place that allows a signature can be a great way to get backlinks, which will help to speed up the SEO process. Every post on a forum can count as a link when your signature is present.
The SEO Process – Get Your Friends To Help
Ask online friends to help you with your SEO and return the favour. Maybe they’ll link to you in their blogroll or in one of their blog posts. Don’t be afraid to ask for a Digg, Stumble, or re-tweet as well. Consider adding bookmarking tools to your site to make it easier for friends to help you make an article or blog post go viral as well.
In terms of speeding up the SEO process, every little bit helps so work at it daily and you will begin to see progress. Keep marketing, keep creating valuable backlinks and continue regularly checking your website statistics so you can see which of your efforts is bearing the most fruit.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2010
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dear sean im a newbe to the net i would like to make money on the net but everything that i find seems to be a scam can you help me find 1 thing thats legitimate i dont expect to get rich i just want to make a good living . thank you william
Hi William
As you are a newbie, possibly the best advice I can give you is to be very weary of any offer that sounds too good to be true, as it almost always will be too good to be true. I would suggest you learn all you can about internet/affiliate marketing, blogging and social media…there is plenty of information available online to learn about it all. Once you have a site set up, it’s time to find a good product to promote and you can promote it via your blog and social media etc. Sorry I cannot be of more help William, but there is quite a lot to learn about online marketing.
And another thing to consider: If you don’t “expect” to get rich, you probably won’t. That’s the law of attraction
Regards – Sean