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Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

jonknee wrote: post #7
AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

I seem to remember you mentioning this before (maybe something about converting a relative's out of print book into this site?), is it fairly new? Google usually takes a while to begin referring to evergreen content (things that aren't current events). The domain is great, the content is high quality, you should be fine. I would probably organize the multiple part articles a little better (the -1, -2, -3 and having e…

Here's the original thread, from 50 days a go:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974055

Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by StaceyEC »

WickyNilliams wrote: post #4
AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

I'd love to know some good resources on this topic too. Feels too much like black magic, only passed on when you join the magic circle. Though I'm convinced there must be some good, reliable, trustworthy and relevant resources out there somewhere! It's just hard to discern the good from the bad when you're uninformed. Would love for someone in the know to enlighten us

The best way to avoid the snake oil is to stay away from learning on forums, especially black hat forums. Most often the OP have some 'amazing trick' they discovered that will make lightning come from the sky and shoot your site up to the top of Google, you just to buy a tool that they so happen to make. Most often than not they don't work or only work a lil bit but may come back to bite you on the end.

SEOmoz has a great beginners course, Distilled has Distilled University http://www.distilled.net/u/ and following reputable blogs and sites will help Search Engine Journal http://www.searchenginejournal.com, Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com ... to name a few. If you do come across some material that you're not sure of check their research which they should provide. If they can only give personal, anecdotal results with no data to back it up you should stay away from it.

Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by varunkho »

AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

Incidentally, I just stumbled upon [0]. I'm also newbie in seo.

[0]: The Advance SEO Guide (by Neil Patel and Sujan Patel) http://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-seo/

Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by chatmasta »

AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

Look at the top 5 sites in your niche and copy their back link profile.

Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by nswanberg »

AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

Patrick is likely sleeping (it's 3am in Japan), and modesty may prevent him from saying so, but he (patio11) is the most readable, and thus most useful, person writing about SEO here.

That he hasn't already been mentioned may reflect the fact that he hasn't been spending as much time writing about SEO lately than about conversion optimization, Rails security, and running email drip campaigns.

You can learn a lot from him just by reading the top few comments sorted by date, relevancy, and points: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Ap...

As an added bonus add a few keywords such as seomoz or seobook.

As a second bonus, this post contains a meta-lesson.

Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by rgraham »

AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

I'd recommend SEOMoz beginner's guide and I think you should also checkout Patrick McKenzie's writings (http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ under SEO).

I was able to use these ideas to create an experiment that doubled my organic traffic (http://whitetailsoftware.com/2013/01/how-i-doubled-organic-s...), but know that some parts of SEO are simply measured in calendar time.

Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by euroclydon »

chatmasta wrote: post #14
AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

Look at the top 5 sites in your niche and copy their back link profile.

There really is no more important metric than back-links, but getting quality back-links can be very difficult.

Re: Seer SEO Toolbox

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Post by franze »

AlexMuir wrote: post #2

Can someone point me to some decent, relevant SEO resources? I feel like I'm behind the times here. I need to understand how to take the information in Google Analytics and put that into ACTIONS. I'm working specifically on http://howacarworks.com as this is solely driven by advertising revenue. It's quality content, well delivered, but Google really isn't giving me much in the way of traffic or ranking.

read a book http://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Marketing-Inc-Companys/d... edition is ok) do not read blogs, any blogs, especially seomoz! only after you have read the book from front to cover you might read some blogs, very very carefully.

also go directly to google http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... (read any resource linked from there)

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