How To Learn SEO Fast
Search engine optimization (SEO) is probably one of the most desired skills to learn as a website owner. When you know how to do SEO, you have no limits to the amount of money you can make online because you can literally create unlimited traffic to your websites without paying for each visitor (like PPC).
I get asked lots of questions about SEO tricks and techniques that I use, and I try to respond to each of these the best I can if I have free time to do so.
I consider myself an SEO expert, but not because I study SEO 8 hours per day and know precisely when each search engine changes their algorithms. I’m an expert because I know the 95% core knowledge that it takes to get a site ranked in the search engines. The last 5% is the highly technical, “nerdy” stuff that nobody even needs to know to be successful.
The core concepts of SEO haven’t really changed that much over the years. The blackhat strategies of trying to beat the search engines have changed and will change frequently because those methods always get caught by the search engines.
There’s really only 2 parts to the SEO puzzle.
First is the onsite stuff. This includes your website’s title tags, meta tags, internal linking strategies, proper use of alt tags, and quality of content.
Second is the offsite SEO stuff. This includes the number of incoming links from other sites, the quality of incoming links from other sites and the anchor text being used from other sites who link to you.
That’s all there is to it. I’ve gotten #1 rankings in VERY competitive niche markets using nothing more than this knowledge.
Sure, there are other nerdy SEO best practices and lots of theories about the best way to do SEO, but if you can do the two parts I listed above and do them very well, you will get high rankings, guaranteed.
The only trick to SEO is knowing how to do these things. Knowing how to write good title tags, how to get quality links to your website, how to link to your other pages within your site, etc. You need to learn the knowledge first, then you need to use the tools to make the process faster and easier.
Anytime someone would ask me for specific advice in the past, I would refer them to Aaron Wall’s SEO book. Unfortunately Aaron changed his business model from a fantastic SEO Ebook to a paid membership site that teaches all internet marketing topics now. I haven’t joined his membership site, so I can’t speak to its content, but I know anytime you go from an expert in one topic to a jack of all trades, you tend to lose quality in each individual topics.
If I had more time available, I’d probably just make my own training course to share all the things I’ve learn about getting sites to rank in search engines. But, between the buying and selling websites class I’m running now, updating this blog plus the other 4 web businesses I manage, there’s no time to take on another project.
So, I started my search to find a new training source I could refer people to who needed to learn SEO. I ended up buying this course and was pleasantly surprised to see how in depth it was and how easy it was to understand, even for a complete newbie (I had my 62 year old, computer illiterate neighbor read it to confirm how easy it is to understand..and no I’m not joking!)
The creator of the course is also the same guy who created the best SEO tool ever created for saving time and making SEO 100 times easier.
I’ll still be sharing my useful tips and SEO techniques via this blog, but if you want the full story, in depth and easy to follow SEO education you can put into use today, then you should pick up a copy of the course. It’s about a hundred bucks, but when you think about how much you’ll spend on PPC ads if you don’t learn SEO, it’s literally a drop in the bucket.
If you get into a competitive market and have to pay $0.50 per click for 100 visitors per day in Adwords, you’ll rack up $100 in just TWO DAYS. On the other hand, you can buy the course for $100, learn SEO and learn how to drive FREE traffic to your site forever. Shouldn’t be a tough decision…
The software tool is not required for SEO, but it will save you a ton of time when it comes to getting links to your site and researching the best keywords to go after.
This training book is the perfect compliment to the niche store money making idea I told you about a couple weeks ago. There were lots of questions when I posted that case study about how I was able to get free traffic to a new site as quickly as I did. Brad’s course will show you the same techniques I used (and a couple others I didn’t even know about myself that I’ll be testing this week).
Looking forward to reading the comments after you guys start implementing some of these SEO ideas and start getting your free traffic…
Well i have read books like fastest seo and seobook whichc certainly gave me some ideas about the SEO ,now its my time to implement those ideas in my blog…:-)
Perfect timing. I was just sitting in front of the new BANS site I started and was thinking what would be the perfect Title, Keyword and Description tags for this site. And I am not shy purchasing business tools either so I will check this out because I need growth with my blogs and BANS site now. thanks.
It’s interesting I was just reading a post at Shoemoney’s site called “SEO has no future”. That sure got some SEO people’s up in arms and maybe he was using it as some flaming linkbait.
~Terry
I’ve not seen Aaron Wall’s new course but I’m assuming that all the content from his SEObook would have made it into the course and the book was fantastic.
Max, what tasks do you use SEOelite for? My company had the software years ago and I’d imagine it’s changed quite a bit since then.
I think a little keyword research and some one way inbound anchor links go a long way.
I think there are a lot of people that just assume spamming a bunch of links with the same anchor text all over the place will help their SEO, but that will get picked up on quickly by the Big G.
G is always changing things and keeping up with the different techniques to try and beat them.
~Terry
I certainly enjoyed reading this post. You have certainly described SEO in exactly the same way I view it. It is relly very simple: Onsite Site Stuff (write quality content, create optimized title, keyword and description META tags) and Offsite Stuff (Get links through link exchanges, other sites linking to yours due to the quality content you created, and article submissions.
People over-complicate this stuff to the point of never being able to even start. I find it realtively easy to achieve top-10 SERP (and especially top-20) for any terms with less than about 10 Million results. For more competitve terms, it just takes a little more time and effort.
Now, my biggest obstacle is having a real job that uses up 10-11 hours of every one of my days. If only I could get fired, I’d probably be a millionaire from online marketing in 6 months!
serious IM should definitely take a look on the course. SEO is worth to study for. Lots of tips and tricks you could learn in SEO. Although to really succeed in it is to spend lots of time with it. Have a look at the links..you might catch something..
I believe you are absolutely correct about the main 2 ideas on SEO. You have to do some great internal linking and you must have quality one way backlinks.
I found you through a post on a forum from Sukosaki – I thanked him already for posting it. Wow.. a wealth of shared information here! Being fairly new to the entire blogsphere, it’s quite amazing and overwhelming at times.
I will be checking out some of the software you are recommending. Its incredible of the garbage that I have already run across, the phone calls selling services as well has exploded in the last few days, they must be under a quota.
I have no experience in affiliate marketing or blasting your sites with all the ad campaigns, tried a few for my personal blog! Just wanted to jot a note to say thanks. I am subscribing to this one!
Another thing to do, would obviously be to check your local library. Real binded books are generally better to read than an ebook or program. I picked one up on Google’s PageRank the other week. There is a positive to buying a program, you have the ability to talk to others about this program, and the creator of it.
This is exactly what I need,because i also start a SEO business.All of your information are very helpful for me.Thanks for sharing such a great and informative post with us. Keep blogging.