I have always wondered what a job of a SEO is. I still wonder what it is. I have now understood it's an interesting task, tedious and takes a bit of your time. Sure, there are many SEO websites out there and many a books as well.
A recommended one is SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World's Largest Search Engine
You can go on for reading a book, eBook, it is all your choice. But, as with this blog, Whatever Strikes!, I can share some of my experiences.
First, you need a smooth, fast and reliable internet connection which is not really a problem at most urban centers. And then, there are just so many things!
A few of the tools are provided by Google itself, which are free for use for Blogger users (free blog owners as well as domain owners). You just got to go Google Webmaster Central or Google Webmaster Tools, as I find they are called by both names. Other website owners options like Analytics (for advanced statistics), Adsense (for revenue generation) are merged with it. To be publicly searchable, your blog/site has to be indexed in at least one search engine, preferably Google. Google Webmaster Tools does the work for you! I do not need to ascertain how important this step really is. Also, you can target your traffic to a particular country through the settings at Google Webmaster, do you wish.
The next step is to open a FeedBurner account. Thankfully, it is now acquired by Google. The options like email subscription (found towards the top right of this page), bookmarking (towards the bottom of this post) along iwth many other interesting and useful ones are provided for free.
For bookmarking, AddToAny.com would be a one-stop-shop that would provide all the solutions.
Now, comes the important part of traffic and traffic ranking. Alexa is still the most famous name in this regards, but it has the hassle of 'Claiming Your Site'. Go on Alexa.com and claim it for yourself. Other ones like Quantcast and StatBrain do it all automatically.
If you are writing on a particular topic, say photography, finance, economy, politics, etc., it is all the more easy for you to list your site under a category in a directory. Sadly, that is one problem with my site as I write anything that strikes! The first directory to claim is DMOZ, the world's largest human edited project, but claiming your site on Google Webmaster claims for DMOZ automatically. Eaton Web, Globe of Blogs are other ways to go for publicizing your blog and do not forget the big daddy of all, Technorati!
My Technorati code (as they call is claim token) came out to be G2TAKXDFPJFY. Why am I entering this? Well, I am supposed to enter it as part of verification which I thought of doing along with this post. There are others like Popdex and Blogdex, do not underestimate them.
Finally, use tools like StatCounter and Clustrmaps if you please. After having a big number of visitors, that makes a good impression. Clustrmaps shows how geographically spread your visitors and can have an appeal for visitors across the globe. Not worth missing for sure.
And the last thing to do, go on something like MyWebsiteRanking.com and check some details regarding your own site. Initially, you should be ready to take some emotional beatings as you might even start from a PageRank of -2 and other demotivating facts. Well, there is always a beginning for everything.
And indeed, you own a blog or a site, or open up one in future, do link me or check in here often!
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