The Best SEO Method

A common mistake seen across the internet is online business owners over complicating their search engine optimization.  They seem to misunderstand the reasons for search engines thinking the only job of a search engine is to give them traffic.  If you look at the big picture it is much more likely search engines will assist you.  There will be no need to trick or confuse search engine into giving you high position.  The search engines are in place to help searchers find exactly what they are looking for not for webmasters to increase their traffic.  If you understand this then the next clear step is creating content for searchers rather than search engines.  Do not create a blog, website, or other presence for search engines.  Doing this may lead to high search engine rankings, but also low audience approval. 

If you build your site for visitors rather than search engines you will notice a much higher chance of being linked to, shared on social websites, and increasing conversion.  The most important aspect of creating a site for visitors is placing emphasis on what your visitors will get out of your site.  This does not mean quality of products or services.  There are far too many sites out there only promoting products for you to jump into the middle.  What your visitors need to get out of your site is free content.  The best content should be unique, relevant, and helpful to your visitors.  Once you have a constant flow of free helpful information flowing through your site it is ok to begin adding products or services which you charge for. 

Now during the creation of your presence if you would like to begin optimization the only two rules you should follow are first never using black hat techniques and second never sacrificing the readability, visibility, or usability of your presence in order to increase position in search engines.  Go ahead and find a few keywords or terms that have traffic using Google Adwords Keyword Tool and place the terms in your URLs, titles, and headings.  When doing this make sure the words you are placing make sense for the page they are being placed on.  This should not be very difficult since you should only optimize a page for terms that are relevant to the page.  If you are selling a fishing poles the make sure you have the term “buy fishing poles” on your site.  This is the simple steps of on-site optimization the next stage is using external presences to boost popularity.

There are many free resources for those wanting to build links.  With all of these free resources it is easy to forget about the importance of link bait.  Simply stated link bait is the process of creating content that has enough quality to be linked to by the rest of your niche.  This means you create a single article, video, or other form of content and rather than building links towards it they are automatically generated towards the content improving your search position.  Link bait is somewhat difficult to build so you can use other resources such as article directories, free web directories, forums, blogs, and social sites to improve site position.