{"id":24,"date":"2009-03-13T06:05:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2019-10-23T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:28:48","slug":"how-much-seo-do-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/13\/how-much-seo-do-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much SEO Do You Need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BWMagic&#8217;s Internet Marketing News!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<b>Contents:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o How Much SEO Do You Need?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>o Google Ranking Factors<\/p>\n<p><\/b><b><\/b><b>o Best Place To Learn SEO<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a website you&#8217;re probably fussing over<br \/>\nyour rankings in the search engines, especially Google.<br \/>\nThe higher your rankings you achieve for your chosen keywords;<br \/>\nthe more traffic you will get.<\/p>\n<p>Many webmasters and companies spend thousands of dollars each<br \/>\nmonth in order to get their keywords and sites up to the<br \/>\ntop of the list. If you&#8217;re into affiliate marketing, your daily<br \/>\nincome will rise and fall almost parallel to your rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if my earnings increase, I know automatically my rankings<br \/>\nhave gone up, especially in Google. If my earnings go down,<br \/>\nI know my rankings have gone south. Some times even a drop or<br \/>\nrise of one place on the first page SERPs will affect how<br \/>\nmuch you earn.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, because of this fact, SEO or how well I am optimized<br \/>\nfor the search engines is very important to me. I am constantly<br \/>\nbuilding quality links and quality content for my sites. Some<br \/>\nkeyword battles you win, some battles you lose. I have been<br \/>\nfighting some keyword battles for over 3 or 4 years!<\/p>\n<p>But how much SEO is enough? How much SEO should you do with<br \/>\nyour sites? Many webmasters make sure all their on page set-up or<br \/>\nlay-out is done exactly to what the SEO experts say you should<br \/>\ndo. This is not a bad idea. Make sure your Title, URL, Headlines,<br \/>\nKeyword Density&#8230; are all laid outright. These are things<br \/>\nwe can control and adjust to meet the SEO standards.<\/p>\n<p>Other SEO or ranking factors are much harder to predict, many<br \/>\nof them are simply out of our control. How other sites link<br \/>\nto us, what they put in the anchor text, what other sites<br \/>\nsay about us&#8230; simply things we can&#8217;t control.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the over-riding reason why your site is listed at<br \/>\nthe top of any rankings has to do with the number, the quality<br \/>\nand the number of sites linking back to your page. The higher<br \/>\nthe number of related quality one-way links you have flowing<br \/>\nback to your site, the higher it will perform in the rankings.<br \/>\nYour anchor text is very important (underlined part of a link)<br \/>\nit must contain your keywords or variations of it. The content<br \/>\non the linking page should be related to your chosen keyword.<\/p>\n<p>Get this part right and you will get high rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least this has been my experience &#8211; all the other ranking<br \/>\nfactors do count but this is the over-riding factor in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Another major ranking factor lately has been the importance<br \/>\nGoogle is placing on social media links. Get your content to<br \/>\nthe first page of Digg with lots of diggs and it will rank high<br \/>\nin Google. This is not surprising when you consider the nature<br \/>\nof these social bookmarking sites&#8230; it really is an actual<br \/>\n&#8220;vote&#8221; for the quality of your content. Getting Delicious<br \/>\nbookmarks has a similar positive effect.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;re wondering about how Google ranks pages or your<br \/>\nkeywords&#8230; Google has around 200 ranking factors (with filters<br \/>\nand penalties thrown in to make all our lives interesting)<br \/>\nwhich it uses to rank your keywords\/pages.<\/p>\n<p>Now the question still remains, how much SEO do you need?<br \/>\nHow much time should you spend at optimizing, building links,<br \/>\nworrying your head-off over the latest Google Itch?<\/p>\n<p>The answer always comes back to quality content. Create a site<br \/>\nthat has quality content and the SEO will take care of itself.<br \/>\nPeople will link to your site, you will get bookmarks in all<br \/>\nthe social media sites, Google will find your content and<br \/>\nrank it. Your SEO will grow naturally as your site grows.<br \/>\nKeep building more pages, keep targeting more and more<br \/>\nrelated keywords in your niche or subject and you will get<br \/>\nhigher rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, some webmasters are a little more aggressive<br \/>\nin how quickly they want their rankings to rise in the<br \/>\nsearch engines. Here&#8217;s something you can do if you want<br \/>\nto go into the SEO battle full-force.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Download SEOquake and place this SEO toolbar plug-in on your<br \/>\nFirefox browser.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Go to Google and type in the keyword or keyword phrase<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re targeting with your site or content.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Click on the number one ranking and observe how many<br \/>\npages it has indexed, PageRank, how many links it has, age of<br \/>\nthe site&#8230; and so on.<\/p>\n<p><b>4. <\/b>Then click the page info button and study all the on-page<br \/>\nfactors this site has and notice what it&#8217;s doing with its page<br \/>\nand keyword density lay-out.<\/p>\n<p><b>5.<\/b> Check all the backlinks this site has in the different<br \/>\nsearch engines. Copy or try to get the same backlinks for<br \/>\nyour site that your competitor has acquired. Then get more<br \/>\nbacklinks and\/or higher quality backlinks than your competitor.<\/p>\n<p><b>6. <\/b>Watch your rankings rise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just a few more words of wisdom and we&#8217;re done. Some battles<br \/>\nwill be too tough to fight, the competition will be so<br \/>\nstiff you just can&#8217;t compete. Other battles will take a long<br \/>\ntime; months, even years before you rise to the top.<br \/>\nYour best bet is to choose long-tail (multi-worded) keywords<br \/>\nthat have little or no competition. You can rise to the top within<br \/>\ndays, even hours. The sweet thing is this: long-tail keywords<br \/>\nare often the most lucrative and bring in the most sales.<\/p>\n<p>For, in the final analysis, you just don&#8217;t want SEO, you want<br \/>\nsmart SEO. And you will quickly learn, most times you can<br \/>\nout-smart your competition, even if you can&#8217;t out-rank<br \/>\nthem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the most comprehensive list of ranking factors<br \/>\nyou will find on the web. Bookmark this page and refer back to<br \/>\nit often if you&#8217;re going heavily into SEO. Another great source<br \/>\nof current information is WebmasterWorld.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\no Best Place To Learn SEO<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re completely new at this web stuff, I would recommend<br \/>\nyou try Aaron Wall&#8217;s Free 7 Day Course on SEO. Also, very good<br \/>\nand to the point &#8211; try SeoBook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<br \/>\nTitus<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.bizwaremagic.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; BWMagic&#8217;s Internet Marketing News! &#8230;&#8230;. Contents: o How Much SEO Do You Need? o Google Ranking Factors o Best Place To Learn SEO &#8230;&#8230;. If you have a website you&#8217;re probably fussing over your rankings in the search engines, especially Google. 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