It is important to understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO) because by getting it right you can drive natural traffic to your site.
And we all want more and more traffic, don’t we?
There are a lot of blogs that have great content but fail to get noticed because they have yet to implement good SEO techniques.
Don’t be among them; check out these basic SEO techniques that I have gathered especially for beginners and start increasing your natural traffic numbers.
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs by Darren Rowse, Problogger
My Top 8 Search Engine Optimization Tips Part 1 by Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com
The 80/20 of Search Engine Marketing Part 2 by Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com
Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization by SEOmoz.org
Choose the Right SEO Project Goals by Eric Enge, Search Engine Watch
12 Best Free Online Resources for Learning SEO by Mike Tekula, Search Engine Journal
The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start by Ann Smarty, Search Engine Journal
Search Engine Optimization for Beginners by Jack Humphrey, WebProNews
SEO 101: Basic Optimization Techniques by Jim Hedger, Search Engine Guide
WordPress SEO Video by Joost de Valk, Yoast
21 Essential SEO Tips and Techniques by Matt McGee, Search Engine Land
Research keyword, build the blog, build the links rinse and repeat. Sooner or later, search engines will start to pick it up. Can be overbearing especially for beginners. This site is for them!
Barbara
You make it all sound so easy!
Andrew
Excellent collection!! I’ve been doing SEO now ever since Infoseek did real-time indexing (back in 1997) and it’s quite an adventure to master.
Thanks for sharing!
Barbara
Wow – that’s a long time. You must have seen lots of changes.
I’m pleased you liked the links.
Andrew
Hi Andrew
I had an encouraging comment on my site today from a guy who like you knows about these things and I was ranking really well apparently with my keywords. I’m still learning heaps and just write my content for my readers but must be doing something right so I was very encouraged. Thanks for all the resources too. Quality content as always.
Patricia Perth Australia
Thanks, Patricia.
That’s great news – just writing for your visitors and getting highly ranked. That’s the way to do it.
Andrew
Great , really thank you about this post , i have been learning about this topic and these articles will be helping me knowing more !! 🙂
Rahul
I’m glad the links were helpful.
Andrew
Good list of go to posts. I find that I’m always in need of improving my seo skills. These are good research tools on how to improve my seo. Thanks.
You are welcome, Richard.
Andrew
I think SEO is fairly easy to learn; for me it’s just a matter of discipline because it takes so much more time.. not just to write (that’s not too much more time) but to research keywords and build the page.
Now, backlinks… personally that’s something I need to learn more about
Yep, half the SEO battle is actually just boring hard work. Getting links, writing content, you name it.
Have you seen this post:
https://www.webuildyourblog.com/2121/build-backlinks-11-methods/
It will help you build backilnks.
Andrew
I’m on it! Thanks for referral.. Literally reading now. 🙂
Hi Andrew,
Great collections of SEO guide for beginners.
My favourite is from Yoast and SEOmoz.
I will look into others too.
Thanks for the effort linking them.
You are welcome, Kimi.
Andrew
Great blog and materials! As a beginner of blogging, I can’t tell you how helpful your post has been.
Scott,
I’m glad I could help you.
Andrew
I bookmarked this for real! Thanks.
Thanks, Jeff. See you again soon.
Andrew
Excellent list again my man.
I’ll stick it in my resources and promote it for ya but no promises here.
I still plan to outsource my SEO soon as it’s more attainable financially. LOL.
Dennis
Thanks.
Let me know when you are planning the SEO outsourcing again.
Andrew
Wow, awesome collections! I think it will help not only beginner but everyone. It will help me a lot. Thanks.
Great – I’m pleased to hear it.
Andrew
Useful resources shared, There are so many tips and tricks to SEO because SEO is very tricky and competitive since their are many websites on the web using this techniques too
Hi Andrew,
It’s true we all need more traffic, great resources you are sharing. I noticed a huge spike in my traffic once I started focusing in more on my seo. Ya it is a pain sometimes to optimize but its worth it.
Larry
Larry
I make it part of my daily working schedule…so it doesn’t feel like pain to me.
Andrew
Great resources, Andrew!
This will definitely help those who are doing their first steps in blogging and SEO.
And being free is a real treat, because we all know all good things in life are free!
Thanks, Alex.
Some good things in life…you do have to pay for!
Andrew
I was trying to make a reference to the song, but you are right Andrew, this days you have to pay for the really good stuff 🙂
Awesome post and you just “flooded” with a bunch of great SEO resources, much appreciated by the “newbie” in me! Thanks!
Stephan
I’m glad the seo links helped.
Andrew
Proven SEO Techniques for beginners for me, are of continuous process or a cycle. I certainly like your post here because it will be of great help to share knowledge especially to web starters. I must say they are effective approaches that are regularly exercised because why make an effort of imparting it if it unnecessary, right? Thanks a lot! 🙂
You are welcome!
Andrew
Creating Traffic for your site and having a higher rank on SEO is what every web marketers want. Finding right SEO techniques is all we need like have a catchy title for your article, pick the keyword for your niche and make sure your keyword is not too dense, the content of your article must be informative and well written, have an article summary and last, don’t forget to brand your resource box.
Get that right and you are onto a winner!
Andrew
Great collection of SEO articles for beginners, Andrew. This stuff isn’t rocket science by far, but I remember when I was first starting out and trying to wrap my head around all of it. It was a nightmare! I completely understand the frustration that many beginners go through. Glad I’m past that stage… lol.
Alan
I feel I am past that stage as well but it is always changing and sometimes keeping up with those changes is hard work!
Andrew
Hi Andrew, thanks for sharing these great posts about SEO for blogs! Will bookmark this post as well.
Thanks for sharing these helpful links. As I know Seo starts from Market research then doing keyword research. After that you’ll analyze your top competitors. Then build your site put great contents and build quality links to it.
Hope I did say it right =)
Nim,
Yes and it sounds so easy when you say it like that!
Andrew
SEO world is quite tricky and difficult and having these SEO techniques was a great help. Thanks for sharing and providing these great collection of SEO guides. These could really help improve my SEO skills. Thanks. Keep posting.
Glad they were of use.
Andrew
Good to read you article. Definitely worth digging.
I learned a lot of valuable informations here about SEO.
I’ll surely try these for my own project.
A big thanks to your post.
Riza,
You are welcome – I’m glad they were of use.
Andrew
Hey Andrew, great selection of useful seo information.
Before you start optimizing your website/blog check beforehand for which keyword you want to rank it high on the search engines. If you have too much competition (for example all sites on first page are yaho sites), I would suggest you choose another keyword. This first step is essential and often overlooked, but It can save you some precious time.
Btw nice blog you got on going.
Cheers,
Chris
I agree with your Chris…many web owners skip this step and they wonder why they get little traffic.
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the great links.
I see you have a huge following here. I am glad I found this site.
Just for your info, I Googled Seo Techniques 😉
Hi Andrew,
I followed the link you suggested and you never fail to refer a remarkable write up. It does explain seo for beginners. I’ve been optimizing my page for quite sometime now and i just love to look at the basic to make sure that i’m on the right track.
Thank you and keep up the good work!
Great article, my 3 seo techniques are:
Fresh content.
Exposure.
Giving Solution.
Fresh content is hard to get, but the ones that don’t give up will be rewarded by google for sure.
Exposure is the biggest seo technique, because our clients think about more exposure when they think about hiring you for seo.
And Solution, give the right solution for every way you can sell a product using seo, because seo sells products.
I would like to emphasis on basis points..1. Make a very good website first with proper navigation structure which could be crawlabe to googlebot.
2. Put proper meta description and page title.
3. Make sure that all pages should linked to root page.
4. Add 404 page (Must needed)
5. Put Blog page in your website , most probably WordPress
6. Add XML sitemap for dynamic pages
7. Add Sitemap page for uses
8. And finally promote quality content properly using social media networking options. Hope this will help…