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Re: Ask HN: What's your references to learn SEO?

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Post by tedmiston »

Jugurtha wrote: post #9
tedmiston wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean long story short the Google guide is common sense — write high-quality original content for people, make it easy to crawl, expose as much structured data as you can, use clean URLs, etc. I don't feel like there are any real secrets to be found (maybe that's a good thing). I find running PageSpeed and Webmaster Tools periodically and looking at Analytics regularly is all you really need to do. Maybe I've just b…

Well, OP asked for references to learn SEO and I answered with resources to get him/her started. I view them as guidelines to keep in mind while I do things. A bearing of sort. But I think this is the very essence of SEO. Optimizing without overfitting. Learning is continuous. A few years back, living in an underbanked country, I got a MasterCard after searching for quite a long time, contacting banks, and digging th…

> The number of visitors increased dramatically when I hosted it on its own domain as opposed to wordpress.com. Not much, but around 300 readers daily for one blog post. It outranked the bank in question for the very search terms, including their name + card.

Now that's quite interesting. Great story — thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: What's your references to learn SEO?

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Post by rayalez »

I higly recommend Source Wave. Start by watching their youtube channel, and if you like it - entroll into their program. It is by far the best SEO resource I have ever seen.

Also check out Alex Becker's youtube channel(he is the founder of Source Wave). He is really awesome and shares a lot of amazing things.

Re: Ask HN: What's your references to learn SEO?

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Post by azazqadir »

iyn wrote: post #2

Moz.com has pretty good resources: https://moz.com/learn/seo

yeah it is a pretty good source for learning SEO, but everytime they teach you something they do it using their own paid tool. My problem with them is that they recommend their own tool in all of their articles and don't care about what tool I am currently using. I don't mind using a paid tool, I am currently using SEMRush.

Re: Ask HN: What's your references to learn SEO?

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Post by mhoad »

cblock811 wrote: post #8

Here are a bunch from QuickSprout. I dont know how updated some are but QuickSprout itself also has guides for SEO as well. https://www.quicksprout.com/2010/09/21/the-seos-handbook-53-...

Please for the love of god do not listen to Neil Patel, his advice is generally horrible.

Re: Ask HN: What's your references to learn SEO?

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Post by mhoad »

For a long time I worked in one of the biggest and most highly respected SEO agencies in the world. I was very very good at it, without sounding like a dick hopefully I want to convey that I do know what I am talking about. The biggest problem you are going to face is ultimately so many different people out there are going to give you conflicting advice and most of it is just plain horrible.

There is a single book that I would recommend on the topic as pretty much the gold standard, if you read and absorbed absolutely nothing else on the topic besides it I would confidently put you in the top 20% of experts globally on the topic.

Spend the $40 get this book https://www.amazon.com/Art-SEO-Mastering-Search-Optimization... and be done with it. The entire topic is much less complicated than it is made out to be and if you have decent technical chops then you are already at a huge advantage over others.

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