I’m going to do something crazy and tell the truth about my experience with search engine optimization. I know very little about it, especially the technical terminology and what exactly makes it tick. I do know the basics and I’ve been able to get moderate search engine traffic prior to learning several things in the past week.

Here are the basics that I knew prior to watching SEO Demystified by Ferny Ceballos and Raymond Fong and taking the Social Media Science course by Charles Heflin.

1. Blogs are the best way to get search engine traffic because you are consistently updating it and the search engines love fresh content.

2. Self-hosted wordpress is the best blog format to use as in my tests it got more traffic more quickly than blogger. Plus the plugins you can use like All-in-one SEO helps you set up the title, description and keywords properly on each page and post and XML Sitemaps, DDSitemap Gen allows for your site to get listed and updated quickly on the search engines.

3. You need to write content rich articles consistently that target your audience.

4. You need to write articles on various directories with links and anchor text that has the keywords that you are targeting with your site.

5. Somehow social media sites contribute to your ranking though I did not understand which type or even the best way to do this.

I had little to know knowledge of the details. After listening to SEO Demystified and taking the Social Media Science courses I understand the following.

1. Set up categories on your blog with keywords that you wish to target your audience. The categories allow you to sort your articles in what they call a silo.

2. Ensure that your site is social media ready with the ShareThis wp plugin so that when people read and enjoy your blog they can share it. When they share your blog on these social media sites it gives you a vote and an incoming link on the search engines.

3. Make sure that your title and descriptions within your All-in-One SEO plugin contains keywords relevant to your article that target your audience.

4. Don’t use social media like del.icio.us, reddit, digg, etc. to bookmark your own page as this will at some point lead you to get slapped by google.

5. Become a part of Content Syndication Network that allows for others to do your social media promotion for you. Basically you do their promotion and in turn they do your promotion.

Based upon applying these principles in one week I have been able to put my Magnetic Sponsoring Review site to rank number 18 on Google. So number 8 on page 2. I’m excited about this and as I continue to learn from Ferny and Ray as well as participating in my Content Syndication Network I know that this will only rise.

I hope some of this information is helpful to you. If you enjoy this post please comment and give me the thumbs up.

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