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The Impatient Newbie’s Guide to SEO

September 2, 2016 - Last Modified: September 2, 2016 by David Leonhardt

I recently wrote The Impatient Newbie’s Guide to Starting a Blog. If you’ve followed my advice, you took the time and spent the coins needed to at least get your own domain.  No point in even talking about SEO if you didn’t.  If you’re on Blogger or Weebly or Tumblr, you can leave the classroom.

Don’t come back until you have your own domain.

The rest of you are probably eager to get started on SEO, to get your site ranking for some juicy searches and to start seeing a stampede of crowds breaking down your doors with fists full of money.

I know.  After many years, I still have that vision.

But you can get the ball rolling quickly with three easy tactics.

Three quick-start SEO tactics

First…wait for it…make sure your website is on its own domain. You won’t rank for anything on a throw-away domain.  ‘Nough said.

Second, get indexed. If you don’t get your domain indexed, nothing else matters.  If you don’t get each new page indexed as it gets published, nothing else matters. If you are not indexed, you won’t rank Number One.

You won’t rank Number Seven.

Or Number 17.

Or even Number 1,000,017.

So get indexed.  This is generally a two-step process.  First, get lots of links for Google to follow.  For a brand new site, those links might come from social profiles or from bloggers you know.  Don’t go buying spammy links as a shortcut.  Shortcuts usually lead straight into a pit full of crocodiles.

The second step to get indexed is not to block the search engines from indexing your content. Believe it or not, this actually happens quite regularly.Your Roboits.txt file needs to show which pages you want indexed. As Neil patel puts it in his Google indexing guide:

“An incorrectly configured file can hide your entire site from search engines — which is the exact opposite of what you want.”

Third, make sure each of your pages has a keyword theme. This is the part of SEO that gives it the “O” – optimization.  This is a tricky process that is as much art as science. Here are some guidelines:

Five ways to quickly optimize each page

Make sure the exact keyword you want to target shows up a few times on the page, preferably in the title tag, the H1 tag and one or two other places. Thinking of putting that exact keyword in every paragraph? Don’t. Keyword stuffing gets you sent to jail alongside the rhino poachers and the pickpockets.

Make sure there are variants of the exact keyword on the page, too. For instance, if your exact keyword is “earn money blogging”, you’ll want to also include “earn money with your blog” and “earn money from blogging”. That’s what natural writing looks like.

Make sure the individual words in your exact keyword show up independently on the page.  In the example above, you’ll want the following words to show up:

  • earn
  • money
  • blogging

Pretty simple, right?

Make sure there are plenty of related terms on the page, words you would expect to find on a page about “earn money blogging”.  For instance:

  • income from blogging
  • blog revenue
  • make money blogging

You are not optimizing the page for these terms, but without them, the page does not look natural.  Who would write a page about “earn money blogging” without mentioning obviously related terms?

Make sure – and this is the most important of all – the page reads well.  Believe it or not, Google can tell if your page is a challenge to read.  Google can tell if your grammar and spelling suck.  Google can tell if, from a writing perspective, your page should be crumpled up and fed to the crocodiles.

Don’t believe me?  Try this.  Cut and paste your blog post text into Read-able (second tab – “Test by direct input”) and see what it gives you. Here is what it says about this blog post:

Blog post readability

Now tell me, do you think Google has 10 times the computing power of read-able or 10,000 times?  Take your time before answering.

Google knows if you are writing crap, so make it good.  Keyword stuffing worked 15 years ago.  It doesn’t work in 2016.  Make it read well for your users.

What else?

There are a ton of other ranking factors, as documented by any good roundup of SEO experts. And over time, you’ll want to make sure that your site conforms. You’ll want a fast-loading website. You’ll want a responsive, mobile-friendly website.  You’ll want a ton of links from CNN and the New York Times.

But this is the “impatient newbie” guide.  I’m still waiting for my first link from CNN (Anderson Cooper, are you listening?). Follow this guide to get a quick SEO foundation on which to build.  Then off to content marketing, blogger outreach, influencer marketing, social media and other online activities that open the doors to inbound links from adoring fans and assorted strangers.

SEO takes a long time to work.  It is not the strategy for impatient people.  But you can give your SEO a quick start boost by following this guide. And that’s just what the impatient blogger is looking for.

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David Leonhardt is an Ottawa based SEO consultant. When not guest blogging he occasionally finds the time to update his own SEO marketing blog. Or you can follow him (Amabaie) on Twitter and most social bookmarking websites.

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{ 16 Responses }

  1. Vijay Yadav says:
    Very nice post. Keep sharing more on SEO. Thanks for the post.
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  7. subhadip says:
    Hallo David its a great post that you have written for new bloggers. One thing I want to ask you as you are a SEO expart How much twitter profile can help SEO If Some one gets a few retweets and some twits from different accounts across the world will it help the sites SEO ???
  8. Akshar Mohan says:
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  9. Holly Jahangiri says:
    Hi, David! I think I'm good on all this - but if you'd put in a good word for me with Anderson Cooper, I'd be grateful. In other news, a little research tells me that interest in blogging, blogging tips, reading, and writing are all down significantly from 2008-2010. Interest in sports, Angry Birds, and Candy Crush are still high. I'm pretty sure that's not the only thing that's high, but we'll just speculate quietly on that. Good pointers for the impatient!
  10. Hussain Omar says:
    Hey David, Awesome post! Loved your style of writing! You made it easy for newbies to find the right way to do it and avoid the bad practices. Indeed, stuffing the content with your keyword is not working anymore. Furthermore, it will trigger the danger of being penalized, so using LSI keywords is the alternative to tell Google what is the main focus of your post. Regards Hussain
  11. Rohitash says:
    Great article ..... Thank you for sharing really helpful information.
  12. Shahrukh Khan says:
    This is solid gold information. I have started a client rewards program in my business
  13. Emily says:
    Really useful information for getting started in using SEO's this all really needs to be put into practice for new bloggers and has encouraged me to look back over my SEO's and check they are as efficient as possible
  14. Ron Callari says:
    David, great blog, particularly for newbies. On the point of indexing your website, while you note some of the black hat tactics to avoid, can you also provide some additional insight as to the white hat acceptable tactics for getting indexed? This would go beyond social profiles and our colleague bloggers?
    • David Leonhardt says:
      Hey, Ron. Social media is the quickest way. It's not even the links from Twitter and Facebook. It's the links from people that see your posts on Twitter and Facebook, visit your blog, love what you've written (make sure it's good!) and link to it from their own blogs.
      • Ron Callari says:
        Thanks!

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