The Minimum Effort you need to put in for SEO

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Post by cafeguy87 » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 5:38 AM UTC

The Minimum Effort you need to put in for SEO
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Re: The Minimum Effort you need to put in for SEO

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Post by sparknlaunch12 » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 6:19 AM UTC

Could you use SEO alone to drive respectable levels of traffic to your site?

Re: The Minimum Effort you need to put in for SEO

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Post by cafeguy87 » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

I would not recommend an all out only SEO only strategy...I'll try to explain.

Depends on the type of keywords and target audience you want to rank for and how crowded or competitive that space is.

In 2012, there's a lot of noise and niche is better when trying to rank for particular keywords.

You can optimize your site for all on-page SEO, making sure everything is properly labeled and crawlable for search engines...but that's not going to be enough to drive traffic. You can't set it and forget it like the crock pot. In order to get real traffic you'll want to be in the top search results to get anything decent traffic wise.

The other half of SEO is link-building and off page stuff, where other sites point links and references to you. You'll have to work on building links or getting creative in making people want to link to you.

So in short- SEO cannot be ignored for driving organic traffic but it is not the only tactic you'll need to utilize.