Just curious if my understanding of SEO is correct or not

I've been doing research on SEO for the last few days and would just like to throw what I think I know out into the void to see if my understanding is correct or not.

If I wanted to boost my E-commerce website I should

- Optimize On-page SEO by satisfying search intent ( I.e Product pages, Landing pages, Category pages)​

- Make sure my business is using relevant Key Words that have search demand w/ traffic potential​

- Do the technical On-Page SEO optimization​

• Including target key in title when it makes sense
• short and descriptive URL Slug
• accurate meta descriptions
• optimized images
• improve readability ( Not quite sure about the importance of this on an e-commerce website

- Link Building​

• Internal linking ( do shop button count? should I make blog posts?)
• Getting links from high DA websites will provide my website with "link juice"
• Using a variety of links?
  • Destination URLs
  • Anchor Texts
  • nofollow, do follow, UGC ( Why do I need no follows? is it to make it look natural?)

- Buffer / Pumper sites​

• use Web 2.0 sites such as Weebly, Wix, webflow, reddit, Tumblr etc as "buffers" to link not to my website but to some high authority website article that links to my website?
• SAPE links are bad for longer term SEO is what I've been gathering
• PBN you need a high quality relevant source in your specific niche
• Guests posts from what I've been reading are bad
• GSA SER should be used on tier 2 and tier 3 websites but never on a tier 1 high quality post or the direct website (please correct me if I'm wrong)

- Diversity and velocity links

• There should be diversity (I.e. Blogs, social media, comment sections)
• There should be a limit on how many links I should get in an X amount of time to make it look natural ( am I wrong here?)

Quality Links over quantity for Long term SEO
Links should go to my homepage and not my inner pages AFAIK

This is just a collection of my thought for the last few days would love someone more experience or just more knowledgable if I'm even on the right path of what I've been able to find. Like I said earlier this is all for my E-commerce website so if I'm wrong on some aspect I would greatly appreciate any guidance the community can give me!

Attach a blog to your ecommerce website and link to products.

SANS FLEXIE said:

Hello Jmanspook! can you explain what service you want better, are you planning on boosting your E-commerce website

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Hello! Im more just trying to see if I understand SEO at all haha, but ideally indexing into the top 3 of my niche would be ideal.

blogmen said:

Attach a blog to your ecommerce website and link to products.

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Okay, but the blog should be relevant to the product and just Anchor link it?
also if I made a blog for each product is that just overkill?

Your on page seems ok.

should I make blog posts?

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Yep. That is the only way to stay ahead of your competitors in an easier and cheaper way. People don't realize that adding a lot of informative articles on their website make their SEO easier. If u can somehow post 20 informative blog articles then ranking your website will get a lot easier.

nofollow, do follow, UGC ( Why do I need no follows? is it to make it look natural?)

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Because now most good websites have changed them to nofollow and nofollow links bring good results. A nofollow wikipedia link almost always helps with ranking and same with many nofollow links.

• use Web 2.0 sites such as Weebly, Wix, webflow, reddit, Tumblr etc as "buffers" to link not to my website but to some high authority website article that links to my website?

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U can make web2.0s directly for your website too. Just make sure to publish 100% meaningful content on those web2.0s and smartly get a link from them. Aim to have 1k+ words long article on web2.0. Properly built web2.0s almost always help.

• Guests posts from what I've been reading are bad

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Who told u that? Guest posts are great to have. Build 10 good guest posts a month = good results in 3-6 months.

• There should be a limit on how many links I should get in an X amount of time to make it look natural ( am I wrong here?)

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YEP. So many people make more links than their top 10 comeptitors have made and eventually end up experiencing penalty.
U should check "backlink count" of your top 10 ranking urls for your desired keyword. And check how many links they have. Imagine most of them have 50 links. In that case- u should not do more than 15ish links in a month.

Links should go to my homepage and not my inner pages AFAIK

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30% links should go to your homepage and 70% links to your inner pages. Infact it would be best to do atleast 50% links for those informative blog pages u r creating and create only 50% links for your homepage+product page url.



For link building- u can try these steps. Most of these can be done for free with some efforts:
1. Search your keyword on google and now reach till result 50. Look at websites that are ranking and try to get some links from those top 50 ranking websites. U will surely be able to make a few.

2. Search your keyword on google and look at those top 100 results. Try to leave comment on them. If a discussion is possible- engage.

3. If u try to make links yourself, and if u spend like 5-6 hours a day building link yourself then you will surely be able to somehow make 5ish good and meaningful links each day. Do this once a week and you would do good.


4. Build some "profile links". Recently google wrote somewhere that they r fine with profile links.

5. Search forums related to your keyword and engage there and somehow promote your website.

6. Try HARO. If ur ecommerce website is a sensible project for you then HARO can get you great links for free.

Jmanspookz said:

Okay, but the blog should be relevant to the product and just Anchor link it?
also if I made a blog for each product is that just overkill?

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Make the blog around a niche that is related to more than just one product. By blog I don't mean just a blog post, but a series of posts.

It seems @Jmanspookz and @SANS FLEXIE are/is the same person , Both are new member(s) and don't even know how to quote massage. Just my opinion . Good questions though

U can make web2.0s directly for your website too. Just make sure to publish 100% meaningful content on those web2.0s and smartly get a link from them. Aim to have 1k+ words long article on web2.0. Properly built web2.0s almost always help.

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When you say smartly link them is that make the link feel natural from the post/blog on the web2.0 site?

Who told u that? Guest posts are great to have. Build 10 good guest posts a month = good results in 3-6 months.

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Oh good to know, it seems I was reading articles that say it has a high probably of negatively impacting the website

30% links should go to your homepage and 70% links to your inner pages. Infact it would be best to do atleast 50% links for those informative blog pages u r creating and create only 50% links for your homepage+product page url.

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Do you mean, 50% of the the blog pages should be interally linked? and of that 50% split it 30/70 between homepage and inner pages?

For link building- u can try these steps. Most of these can be done for free with some efforts:
1. Search your keyword on google and now reach till result 50. Look at websites that are ranking and try to get some links from those top 50 ranking websites. U will surely be able to make a few.

2. Search your keyword on google and look at those top 100 results. Try to leave comment on them. If a discussion is possible- engage.

3. If u try to make links yourself, and if u spend like 5-6 hours a day building link yourself then you will surely be able to somehow make 5ish good and meaningful links each day. Do this once a week and you would do good.


4. Build some "profile links". Recently google wrote somewhere that they r fine with profile links.

5. Search forums related to your keyword and engage there and somehow promote your website.

6. Try HARO. If ur ecommerce website is a sensible project for you then HARO can get you great links for free.

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This also super helpful, I appreciate you taking the time to help me out!
But when you said building links myself is that the Web 2.0, blogs etc or did you mean something else? Sorry for the redundancy in asking just want to make sure I understand!

TJ_Ana said:

It seems @Jmanspookz and @SANS FLEXIE are/is the same person , Both are new member(s) and don't even know how to quote massage. Just my opinion . Good questions though

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I just assumed he was ESL or something with how he responded but probably a bot

blogmen said:

Make the blog around a niche that is related to more than just one product. By blog I don't mean just a blog post, but a series of posts.

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I appreciate the advice!