SEO - 2 First Steps to SEO

Seo is of course search engine optimization, but it makes for a whole lot easier typing if I do not spell it out! But seriously, seo is pretty important.

Seo is one of the most important things you can do for traffic generation long term. You see, in the short term, seo is not really that important. When you are first getting started, you really need the direct traffic, and you need it fast. Seo can takes months to take effect, and sometimes it moves up and down. You are number one for weeks and then you fall out of place. It just happens – but when you have many pages and many sites it affects you less than when you first get started and you only have a few sites.

Seo is just really a long term strategy, but the changes take awhile to take place – so you have to work on it now, while you are small, and it will help you get big. That is the bottom line. You have to work on seo now.

So what are the first 2 steps to seo?

1) You have to have your keywords on your web pages. I like to have my keywords on my titles, in my content, in my heading tags, and in my description tag.

2) You have to get backlinks to your web site. I like to use article marketing and web directory submission to do this. Article marketing can create faster inbound links than web directory submission, but the web directory submitting can help you get longer lasting links.

The Best SEO Forums On The Internet

I am a bit of an internet addict as I class one of my hobbies to be searching the net and website promotion. I have a number of websites which I enjoy marketing in an attempt to attract additional visitors to each of them. I think that I have learnt quite a lot about SEO in the last few years and have been very successful in gaining this extra traffic. I still however am keen to learn more and attempt to do this by spending many hours reading through some of the entries to the many SEO forums. Yes I am a bit of a geek! In this article I am going to write about what I consider to be the best SEO forums, I hope you enjoy the read.

My favourite SEO site has to be the seoroundtable. This is always my first port of call when seeking new information about web marketing and web promotion. I have spent many an hour reading through the various posts and on many evenings this is the only SEO forum site that I actually visit.

I also enjoy webmasterworld who report many of the latest SEO news stories.

There are a couple of blogs about SEO that I also like to read. The Mattcutts blog is always of interest as is the ezinearticles blog. I have learnt many things from both of these blogs and also enjoy making comments on some of the subjects discussed.

Reading through all of this relevant information helps a webmaster to stay in touch with the latest SEO news to enable them to stay one step ahead of their competition. It has certainly proven to be invaluable when promoting my own websites.