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ScottJ · 22-04-08, 20:03

I'd say SEO is actually very straight forward, 95% of it is very basic and easy to undertsand, just not so easy today to implement so it's easy to stop or not see it through seeing as it is a continual process - some people would like to make you think it's harder than it is.

1/ Make sure your main keywords appear in you title tag & description tage and main page but do not be spammy and make sure each page on your site has unique content and title/description.
2/ Get backlinks from relative site which link to you with some of the main keywords in the link
3/ Get links from relative site that link to you 'in context' using your site name
4/ Make sure links are not just targetted at your homepage.

That is about it for the most part, if people are trying hard without success it is usually down to

1/ Poor quality content
2/ Poor quality inbound links
3/ Stopping SEO work

I remember 5 years ago when I was really looking into SEO and reading and testing that people were saying how they felt the results were less relative then, I think you will find that in return for what is a free service (Google) many average users are prepared to put up with some noise and for the most part get what they want.

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ScottJ SBF Regular Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Peterhead Posts: 125 Thanks: 1 Thanked 11 Times in 11 Posts	Re: Finding the good keywords I'd say SEO is actually very straight forward, 95% of it is very basic and easy to undertsand, just not so easy today to implement so it's easy to stop or not see it through seeing as it is a continual process - some people would like to make you think it's harder than it is. 1/ Make sure your main keywords appear in you title tag & description tage and main page but do not be spammy and make sure each page on your site has unique content and title/description. 2/ Get backlinks from relative site which link to you with some of the main keywords in the link 3/ Get links from relative site that link to you 'in context' using your site name 4/ Make sure links are not just targetted at your homepage. That is about it for the most part, if people are trying hard without success it is usually down to 1/ Poor quality content 2/ Poor quality inbound links 3/ Stopping SEO work I remember 5 years ago when I was really looking into SEO and reading and testing that people were saying how they felt the results were less relative then, I think you will find that in return for what is a free service (Google) many average users are prepared to put up with some noise and for the most part get what they want.