25 Tips From SEO Professionals

Despite popular opinion, the death of SEO has been greatly exaggerated. However, that doesn’t mean that what was effective in 2006, 2010, or even last year still works today. SEO is a rapidly changing practice – thanks in part to the hundreds of adjustments Google makes every year to its search engine algorithm.

Because of this, you need to stay on top of the latest industry news and take the advice of some of proven SEO professionals, like the following 25 tips.

1. Bruce Clay

Bruce Clay, who has been an industry leader with SEO since 1996, provides 100 helpful and useful 100 SEO Tips, which includes:

“A blog is primarily an awareness channel that will lead to micro-conversions, such as social sharing, page visiting, etc. These micro-conversions are important, because they keep you at the front of a customer’s mind when they need the product or service you offer.”

2. Tim Grice

Time Grice is the Director of Search at Branded3, which is a Search and Digital Agency based in the UK, who voiced his support of using social media to boost your SEO with SocialBro. According to Grice:

“As link manipulation is being slowly killed by Google, there is a genuine need to reach out to real people, those who can influence in your industry. Publishers with a genuine audience are the type Google want, so reach out and engage with these ‘real’ publishers. Email and telephone will always have their place, but social is great way to connect with these publishers.”

3. Joost de Valk

The founder and CEO of Yoast shared some valuable insights on how to select the perfect focus keyword for your blog post or website page. He begins by reminding us that, “Your keyword strategy should have given you some idea what you want to write about. For blog posts, you will usually aim for a long tail keyword (containing multiple words).” After that you can  use a tool, such as the WP SEO plugin, to gain a list of suggestions. You also want to test the search volume of your chosen focus keyword to make sure it’s high. You can do this through AdWords or Google Trends. Finally, you want to make sure that your keyword fits your audience.

4. Joelle Gropper Kaufman

Former Chief Marketing Officer of Clarizen, Inc. and current head of partnerships and marketing for BloomReach, informed Cio that while your content needs to be “compelling, descriptive, and differentiated,” you also need to look at technical considerations, such as:

• Identify and reduce or eliminate duplicate pages and content.
• Make sure your “in-linking” helps users and search engines find their way around your site.
• Identify sources of insight from within and beyond your site to guide the content you create, curate, and retain.
• Ensure your content is accessible and optimized for mobile searchers, who Kaufman says are already reaching 50 percent of search traffic.

5. Rand Fishkin

You’ve probably heard of Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz. But, did you know he didn’t spend a whole lot of money on marketing? He has stated (via HubSpot) that to start his small business rolling he simply:

“For the first 5 years of SEOmoz’s marketing efforts, I doubt I spent [$200] on anything — just blogged, participated in communities, produced some interesting one-off content …”

6.  Trond Lyngbø

Trond Lyngbø – founder of SEOnomics.com, Head of SEO at MediaCom Norway, and columnist at Search Engine Land, stated on Search Engine Land you need to:

“Make sure that anything you buy — whether it’s a CMS, a web analytics platform, or a PPC management solution — will help you achieve your marketing goals.

“SEO is an integrated discipline. Different components influence and impact other business activities, and synergies between them can be lost unless you take the right precautions. Make sure you’ve mapped out your marketing goals and anticipate future requirements before even looking at software. Seek your SEO consultant’s advice early, before buying (or even deciding upon) a new product or service that impacts your online presence.

Proper foresight will allow you speed up and grow in the year ahead, rather than get bogged down by products that don’t support (or worse, hinder) your online marketing efforts.”

7. Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz – Search Engine Land’s News Editor, founder of Search Engine Table and owner of consulting firm Rustybrick – offered this nugget of advice to SuccessWorks:

Article source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnrampton/2015/04/13/25-tips-from-seo-professionals/