Basics of a SEO Mindset

The critical part of SEO is to have the right SEO mindset, and attain pointers that can assist in succeeding when it comes to free search engine traffic. I will lay out 3 important SEO mindset basics based on my experience, that many people can overlook or get wrong.

1.) Submitting your site to many Search Engines

In getting search engine traffic the most obvious thing to do would be to submit a site to many; or as many search engines as humanly possible. The fact of the matter is that you do not need to submit your site to any search engines at all. Spending time on other activities such as building internal & external links that will point to or within your website pages. Another activity would be writing good content for your site, such as seen in article marketing. In addition, you can submit to social bookmarking sites or article directories that will get more traffic. What this will end up doing is getting the search engines to indirectly index your and as a side effect rank you high with the possibility of much more search engine traffic coming.

2.) Rush to get High PR but Not Search Engine Traffic

Many are excited to get High PR, but the reality is that PR is not equivalent to search engine traffic at all. If you have a high PR site but are not targeting to a right set of keywords for seo, you will not get get the expectations you want in terms of search engine traffic. Therefore, a right seo mindset for PR is developed from people linking to your site. If web pages with a PR5 link to you, you should be able to get a PR4. And this is all that it means. A high PR page will get indexed more regularly than sites below but that is the only true benefit from high PR, thus not meaning you will get more search engine traffic to your site.

One of the best ways to get high search engine traffic is to forget about high PR as it will come slowly once you add links that point to your site. Focusing in on writing more articles, and posting valuable unique content to your blog daily with a low competition long tail keyword will have the search engines satisfied; or in other words search engines love this and will rank you a higher position.

PR 101- What PR signifies is Page Rank, and this is what Google and other search engines generally apply to each page on the web. Search Engines such as Google also apply a score between 0 and 10 to PR (page rank). Thus, new pages will typically have a page rank of 0. On a yearly basis, search engines update page rank approximately 4 times.

3.) Not needing SEO, already ranked high For My Name

Many people consider that having a specific phrase ranked high in the search engine is enough to not need SEO. For example; “Breaking the bank with Billy”. Being ranked high for specific phrases is a good thing but the fact is that the number of people searching for this specific phrase is extremely low, if any. This is why it is wise to do SEO, and to aim for much more common phrases, such as “making money online fast”, since this would be a higher aim for searchers online.

Overall, the heart of SEO is (or should be) to target keyword phrases that have lower competition. It is possible to rank high without high PR by building more internal & external links to your pages and by daily updating blog or website content. By doing this you can easily get a faster index and rank higher.

On #1, I prepared to focus only on the major SEs like G and Y, and it works well for me..

informative post!! thanks for sharing it!!

Every time a person uses the Internet and a search engine they need first need to decide what it is they are looking for and will then type this into the search engine to begin the search. Once this has been done a list of websites that have the words relevant to the search in it will be displayed. There is usually a short description of the website underneath each entry on the list, and the person using the Internet will then click onto which website seems to be the best looking one for them. SEO is used when writing the content for websites and can either make or break the rankings of a website.

Google Page Rank is a deprecated system and it only means anything if you are trying to sell it to people.. seriously.. nothing is based on this system and it is only updated about twice a year...

Your Real Listing on any search engine is based my relevancy, freshness of content, and popularity..

Relevancy - Keyword matching.. not only your meta tags either, a lot of SEs look beyond meta tags and search the content of the site for keyword repetition to find relevancy, but they also try to filter out people that manipulate this, so you want your keywords to be often, but not spammy, if it is too much they will suspect you are trying to manipulate their system and it will lower your listing..

Freshness - How frequently pages are updated effects it's listing on search engine results, the more frequently and recently it has been updates, the more likely it will show higher, this also effects how Google detects the relevancy, if the site is 3 years old the information may be out dated or no longer true so they feel like it isn't a very accurate page to give to it's users.. it uses system modified times from your server and what is in it's own cache to detect changes..

Popularity - this is based on visits and back links, the more popular your page is, the higher it will be ranked, the more daily unique visits and back links you have the higher it will be rated...

These things are KEY for SEO and "Page Rank" and never forget the value of Alt tagging your images for keywords!