We all know there's heaps of ways to do SEO as well as many people who are willing to sell their "SEO services" from gigs on Fiverr to professional company's who can charge in the thousands. But what are you best SEO methods that you have had the best results from? Do you do link exchanges, article marketing, make social links, buy backlink packages? Share your favourite and or best method and why you think it helps your site the most :-)
I've been exchanging some guest blog posts lately. It's been working great! Not only do I get more content generated for my site, but the backlinks are helping a lot. Each post of mine earns a forum thread and a tweet. I've only recently started doing it and have only been exchanging with one other site. However, I'd like to expand on that a bit!
I concentrate on putting up relevant and fresh content on my sites say at least once per week, but it can go as high as four times per week, depending on the niche that I am dealing with in my website.
I have always done my own SEO. And I pretty much follow the guide in my signature along with practicing other good habits. A very serious SEO weapon is a good targeted signature link. Which is why you have the option to show or not to show your signature. Practicing selective signature placement can really generate some good backlinks and shared SEO juice. Most people like to have their signature in every thread, but sadly doing this will get you bad backlinks and at times look spammy if you have 1000s of posts. If you see someone posting about apples and your site is about apples, only showing your signature in that thread about apples will make the backlink worth more than one in 80 general posts about tv shows.. Just as an example
That's a great idea about showing your signature in related only threads, it should limit being classed as a forum spammer drastically and show google that your manually adding links not automating them. Is anyone using much of the social sites for SEO Facebook, Twitter etc?
I like working on on-page optimization on my site/forum, because I usually tweak the design a bit whenever I re-do my on-page SEO, or add onto it depending on which page I'm editing.
I don't really have a favourite method. I usually just put eye catching things in my forum description and try to find the most searched things on Google of the week and make threads relevant to it. Brings in quite the bit of traffic.
I prefer creating back links. It is easy and a natural way to gain Google's trust. In addition, I try to use every guest post opportunity available to create good-quality back links. Also writing articles works well but it needs a lot of work and results aren't seen overnight. However, I sometimes get frustrated to SEO since it takes time and I am a bit impatient personality.
Is Article Writing still working for you? Over the last 6 months I feel like any article SEO I complete has no effect on my sites any more. All my writing is 100% and as a native English writer the grammar etc fine. I just don't get it anymore.
Buying Back Links is a strict No No for me and in my opinion, the recent updates on googles blog too mention that. I normally prefer to post comments on blogs, signatures on forums and yeah, write an article or so occasionally. With the trends shifting to the social bookmarking, I guess, it is time I upgraded my limited knowledge to use the same for my website.
The first and foremost task is to create quality content and the quality of content has great impact on forum and then second is to put links and then to match the keywords relating to website.
Quality content will always take a good site places. Without it, I don't know how my forum would survive. It takes a lot of effort to create quality content, but once you get the hang of things, you're in the clear. I remember when I couldn't write good content that would get more organic results, but now I can.
