Basic SEO Strategy

[Shawn]

Here's my simple formula for SEO.

 

1. Choose your topic based on the needs, wants, and pain points of your target audience. You have to "listen" to what they want before you know what they want.

 

2. Research a suitable keyword. Use a tool like SEM Rush, Uber Suggest, or something like that to make life easier. You want a good search volume but a low competition score. Don't use the same keyword more than once. A longtail keyword is going to be easier to work with.

 

3. Write the best content you can. Search your keyword on Google and open up the first 10 results. Make sure you include what they include in your own words, but fill in the gaps that they miss. Long-form is best. 1,500+ words.

 

4. Keyword injection:

*Title

*H1 header

*H2 header

*First sentence in first paragraph

*Add keyword to a few more places throughout content where it smoothly integrates in

*Image ALT tag

*URL slug

 

5. Submit and promote.

 

That's it! That's what I do to get on page one of Google.

[AWS]

Very good tips.

[Shawn]

The big thing about it is not feeling like you need to inject your keyword a certain amount of time. You could get away just putting it in all the places above and maybe two times in your content. A lot of people still make the keyword stuffing mistake.

[AWS]

I'm a big beleiver in tags. I add them to every thread I start. I've got much traffic from them.

[Shawn]

I'm a big beleiver in tags. I add them to every thread I start. I've got much traffic from them.

Yeah. I'm mixed on them.

 

For a forum like this, where members will already probably know what they are for, then I enable them.

 

But for my hiking forum or biking forum, no one really understand what they are and I want to make engagement as simple as possible, so I don't enable them.

[Cpvr]

I'm a big beleiver in tags. I add them to every thread I start. I've got much traffic from them.

I also use them. They’re good for navigational purposes and can help users find topics a lot easier too.

[Immortal]

You should give equal importance to on-page SEO,off-page SEO as well as technical SEO. But sadly, a lot of people only focus on on-page SEO. When you are building backlinks, always build links on sites related to your niche

[Exoticdreamer]

On 10/4/2024 at 6:44 PM, Shawn said:

The big thing about it is not feeling like you need to inject your keyword a certain amount of time.

Google has been cracking down on "keyword stuffing" and instead now prioritizes and favors contextual keywords. If you use one keyword too many times, Google will not look at your content favorably. Top SEOs advise that you use synonyms, long-tail keywords, and alternatives to avoid this issue while also providing a wider variety of keyword for which you can rank.

[Shawn]

On 11/6/2024 at 6:29 AM, Exoticdreamer said:

Google has been cracking down on "keyword stuffing" and instead now prioritizes and favors contextual keywords. If you use one keyword too many times, Google will not look at your content favorably. Top SEOs advise that you use synonyms, long-tail keywords, and alternatives to avoid this issue while also providing a wider variety of keyword for which you can rank.

That's why I really don't put too many in there.

Focus more on making the content awesome because if people are clicking on it and consuming it for periods and not pogo-sticking, then you'll win!