kromik100
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- Jan 18, 2013
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I posted this in another thread, but I think more people can learn from it by posting it as a thread. I haven't had time to structure it so it looks pleasing, but the content works 
How to learn SEO - without wasting time on Udemy.
1) Start a blog in a low-competition niche
2) Dont focus on profit at all. Write informative and relevant content. You can add all the fancy affiliate and monetiziation methods later on. That's the easy part.
3) Try fiddle around with the site. After having 3-5 well optimised pieces of content, see if you can manually make them move up into serps. Ranking and working with big-G is complex, but there's a really simple tool to benchmark your progress. That's simply your serp placement. Like top 10, 20, 30 ....
4) You will see what makes a difference and what does not. Of course it will always be different, but you get a feeling for it. Remember that SEO is longterm, so this is something that has to be ungoing for a few weeks if not months.
5) Do everything manually. Dont buy any services from BHW (yet!!), until you fully understand the proccesses, advantages, methods and of course the consequences.
6) Build a few blogs
7) Add AdSense to them to get a bit of motivation. You will not earn anything, but it's nice to see a few $ coming your way. If you're truly passionate, you will feel a hunger to get more.
8) Now that you've built a few whitehat blogs with relevant and quality content, you can move on to the real monetization. Of course there are 10000 ways to do this, but the "easiest" and most popular must be Amazon affiliate. The program itself is free to join, and even though the comission is low, you get access to billions of products and categories.
9) Try and write articles like "Top 10 best ....." - depends on your niche. There are many variations of these type of keywords, but pick some with high buyer intent (Google this - important!!)
10) See if you can rank some of these with the tools and method you've learned.
11) If you have 2-3 blogs by now with quality content and buyer articles, and manually built quality links in a low-competition niche, I'd say you're problably ranked around 10-20. Some lower, long-tail keywords(GOOGLE THIS) volume keywords might higher.
12) Try buying some blackhat links for one of your blogs. Keep using a whitehat strategy on the others - and develop your creative linkbuilding strategies (This is the area which I dedicate 90% of my SEO work to)
13) Monitor the movements and impact of your changes
14) Keep improving, testing and learning.
Try writing 3-5 pieces of content pr. blog (Do 1-3 to begin with). Make sure that you're producing quality content, that contains a few thousands words. Google loves content.
Dont outsource any of your work to begin with - including content.
Learn the whitehat, then use your knowledge to do blackhat.
Good blogs to follow (Skip dumb Udemy courses):
Ahrefs blog
Neil Patel
Brian Dean / Backlinko (Excellent one!!)
Moz (Good for more advanced and technical SEO)
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I run my own digital agency here in Scandinavia, and have been selling courses and mentorship in SEO for a few years now.
.... Oh, and I might own just online blogs/magazines;-))))
How to learn SEO - without wasting time on Udemy.
1) Start a blog in a low-competition niche
2) Dont focus on profit at all. Write informative and relevant content. You can add all the fancy affiliate and monetiziation methods later on. That's the easy part.
3) Try fiddle around with the site. After having 3-5 well optimised pieces of content, see if you can manually make them move up into serps. Ranking and working with big-G is complex, but there's a really simple tool to benchmark your progress. That's simply your serp placement. Like top 10, 20, 30 ....
4) You will see what makes a difference and what does not. Of course it will always be different, but you get a feeling for it. Remember that SEO is longterm, so this is something that has to be ungoing for a few weeks if not months.
5) Do everything manually. Dont buy any services from BHW (yet!!), until you fully understand the proccesses, advantages, methods and of course the consequences.
6) Build a few blogs
7) Add AdSense to them to get a bit of motivation. You will not earn anything, but it's nice to see a few $ coming your way. If you're truly passionate, you will feel a hunger to get more.
8) Now that you've built a few whitehat blogs with relevant and quality content, you can move on to the real monetization. Of course there are 10000 ways to do this, but the "easiest" and most popular must be Amazon affiliate. The program itself is free to join, and even though the comission is low, you get access to billions of products and categories.
9) Try and write articles like "Top 10 best ....." - depends on your niche. There are many variations of these type of keywords, but pick some with high buyer intent (Google this - important!!)
10) See if you can rank some of these with the tools and method you've learned.
11) If you have 2-3 blogs by now with quality content and buyer articles, and manually built quality links in a low-competition niche, I'd say you're problably ranked around 10-20. Some lower, long-tail keywords(GOOGLE THIS) volume keywords might higher.
12) Try buying some blackhat links for one of your blogs. Keep using a whitehat strategy on the others - and develop your creative linkbuilding strategies (This is the area which I dedicate 90% of my SEO work to)
13) Monitor the movements and impact of your changes
14) Keep improving, testing and learning.
Try writing 3-5 pieces of content pr. blog (Do 1-3 to begin with). Make sure that you're producing quality content, that contains a few thousands words. Google loves content.
Dont outsource any of your work to begin with - including content.
Learn the whitehat, then use your knowledge to do blackhat.
Good blogs to follow (Skip dumb Udemy courses):
Ahrefs blog
Neil Patel
Brian Dean / Backlinko (Excellent one!!)
Moz (Good for more advanced and technical SEO)
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I run my own digital agency here in Scandinavia, and have been selling courses and mentorship in SEO for a few years now.
.... Oh, and I might own just online blogs/magazines;-))))
