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Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

SEOP.com — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:07:36 -0000

Very basic stuff, but definitely will be very helpful. Especially newbies with SEO. Thanks for sharing.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Anup tilak — Sat, 29 May 2010 04:03:02 -0000

good points are mention. thanks.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Kittens — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:21:05 -0000

You make a good point about nofollow, but a human visitor can't tell the difference, so I don't think they're necessarily of no value.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Seo — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:16:46 -0000

Great read, these tips are the corner stone to having a powerful website.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

seo for website — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:06:35 -0000

Search engine optimization is about making your website worth caring about so people want to link to it, but there are some quick things you can do to .

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

dripac — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:11 -0000

You give some good point here but I would like to see you elaborate a little on each step since there are people who are trying to start their own website and don't really understand half of what you just wrote down. If you wish to see broader version you can visit http://www.bhsource.net

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Good Seo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:54:24 -0000

I enjoyed your post.... great tutorial for launch. Thankz.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

See-ming Lee (SML) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:11:14 -0000

I can't believe that you actually posted this. teehee. I've been meaning to write something like this but was worried that it'd look superficial - but clearly it does not. Give me new hopes. But I see these things visually. It's good that you are able to put them in words.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

John Fewell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:40:58 -0000

But that isn't SEO, that's a way of increasing referrals. Which, if you link to your site from your wikipedia user page, you're likely to get very few of.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Klein — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:24:14 -0000

Thanks John. You make a good point about nofollow, but a human visitor can't tell the difference, so I don't think they're necessarily of no value. I've had 38 visits averaging 3:23 time spent on site from Wikipedia, so I'm glad for the links even if Google doesn't care!

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

John Fewell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:48:47 -0000

Hey Josh, great blog! Regarding #6 and #9: All of wikipedia's, facebook's and twitter's outbound links are nofollowed, and therefore not valuable for SEO. The only inbound links that have real value are the ones you really have to dig for, exploit social connections to obtain or get from having great content.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Erik Wallace — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:56:35 -0000

I do indeed. I'd love to work together if you're ever interested.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Klein — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:40:48 -0000

The site looks great, Erik. You've got a great portfolio, too. You do freelance work? ;)

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Erik Wallace — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:16:49 -0000

Thanks again for the tips! Launched my site a little over a week ago and I've got most of the things on your list taken care of. If anyone's curious my new site is at: http://www.erikwallace.com. Feel free to send any feedback my way.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Klein — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:01:15 -0000

Hi Mike. I didn't include article submission because article submission is largely bullshit. Now, I have to provide some context to why I say that: when people refer to article submission, they are usually referring to something very specific that IS bullshit.

Technically, I did mention the submitting of articles in #12 - that is what a guest post is; you submit an "article" to another blog. If you write something for the Huffington Post or pen a nice article for a major newspaper, these are "article submissions" too.

But when SEO people say "article submission", they mean the nonsense that is writing 500 words of complete garbage and submitting it to 50-100 websites that no one actually visits, creating a massive quantity of useless, boring, duplicate content.

Maybe this gets you a few short term links. Maybe this bumps you in the search engines temporarily. But if it does, it won't for long, and whatever time and energy you spend on it is wasted because you're just adding more filth to the internet.

Article submission done the right way is tremendously smart. It involves writing in places other than your own home base, not spamming article directories that have been created specifically to lure SEO people.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Mike McEvoy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:35:34 -0000

Very useful post as a new site checklist. Actually a very good list even for reviewing existing sites or blogs. One SEO item that you did not include that I see in a lot of "SEO Things To Do Lists" pertains to submitting articles to the one or more of the seemingly thousands of Article sites out there. It seems like opions on the value of these sites for link building and SEO are all over the map, both positive and negative. Any reason you didn't include this on your list? Regardless, this is an excellent list. Thanks.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Klein — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:15:00 -0000

Totally - properly formed HTML (meaning comprehensive alt tags, title tags, etc. on all assets) is a big deal. Well said.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Klein — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:13:33 -0000

That's odd, the link works for me. It should be http://www.knowem.com! There is also http://www.usernamecheck.com/ and http://namechk.com/ as alternatives.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

nogre — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:44:39 -0000

Be sure to be diligent with the non-text (only) aspects of your webpage:
1. Make sure every image/video/object file has a sensible filename (not 'm24asd2.jpg'; SeattleSpaceNeedle.jpg).
2. Include alternate titles in the html.
3. If you talk about locations (in pictures as above e.g.), be sure to give the address (if it doesn't get anyone in trouble of course).

Same with all non-basic text content (presentations, spreadsheets, music, videos, pdfs, etc.): include as much ancillary information as you can.

As internet search expands to include pictures, local search, deep searching and other non-traditional searches (traditional from 5 years ago), having everything properly labeled will pull more people to your content from these alternative search techniques.

... I know.. 2 serious comments in a row... something must be wrong........ noah

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Charles Bohannan — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:47:09 -0000

Thanks for this--good resource for people who don't focus as much on marketing/SEO but need to. On #6, "(this list)" link doesn't work. It looks interesting and I hope you can fix it, thanks!

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Klein — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:44:23 -0000

Glad you found it insightful. See, the real gold is in having everyone who is a RockStar or SOB put the badge on their site and link back to where you gave it to them. I'd love to give a "worth caring about" badge, but I wouldn't want to deal with having to reject people :)

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Josh Klein — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:42:35 -0000

Thanks, Matt. I think I first came across the idea because of a smart guy named SML. Wish he was blogging more (but who am I to talk)!

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Matt Daniels — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:31:40 -0000

Nice post on basic SEO. The social media link-building is definitely something that few people have caught on to.

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Kelvin Lee — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:01:56 -0000

Excellent work, quite a few cool insights in there (e.g.) RockStar and SOB!

Thanks a lot :)

Re: 20 SEO tricks for launching a new website

Erik Wallace — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:30:26 -0000

Will do, thanks Josh.