Tips For Getting Backlinks

If you want traffic for your site you need to get backlinks. Link building will be the most important thing you do as part of the optimization of your site. If you read the last part of this series you should have a better idea of what you want to look for in a backlink. Knowing what to look for is one thing, but I’m sure you want to know where to look. As promised here are some tips for where you can get backlinks for your site.

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Link Building

When it comes done to it link building is going to be the most important part of any seo you do for your site. Get enough quality links and your web pages will rank for your keywords no matter what you do on your pages. Ever since Google came onto the scene seo has been all about links and link building. That doesn’t mean you can ignore everything up to this point, but be aware that link building is going to have the most impact on your site when it comes to being found in a search engine.

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On Page SEO

Most people new to search engine optimization equate on page seo as everything in seo. Terms like meta tags and keyword density are often some of the first encountered by seo newbies. Many myths still revolve around on page seo and while for competitive keywords link building will be your path to success you can still rank very well for many keyword phrases with on page factors alone. In the previous two posts to this tutorial I talked about keywords and some of the things you could do while building your site to improve your overall optimization. Today as you have probably figured out I’ll be discussing what you can do on the page itself to gain a higher position in search results.

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Site Building For SEO

Last time we were talking about keywords and their importance in seo. Now that you’ve chosen your keywords it’s time to build your site. Well maybe not just yet. I prefer to have content written before site building, but I’m going to talk about site building first. Partly because writing content will continue after your site is built and also because there are some things I’ll talk about here like structuring your site that can and probably should come before content writing.

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Keyword Discovery and Keyword Selection

A lot of thought should go into keyword discovery and keyword selection when it comes to your site. Part II of our seo basics tutorial will focus on keywords and help with some ideas to discover as many possible keywords as possible and once having discovered those keywords how to select the best ones for your site optimization. Keywords like everything else seo is often as much art as science, and while there are a variety of scientific methods to choose the keywords for your site many times it will come down to how well you know your potential customers and how they search.

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