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Inner Circle
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Richmond, VA
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SEO help
Hey everyone. I'm pretty sure I could use some help with my SEO for my wordpress site and didn't know if anyone knew legit people. Not those crazy anonymous emails we all get, lol.
But if anyone can point me to a legit SEO person, I'd appreciate it.
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Equal Opportunity Offender
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Re: SEO help
There are no 'get rich quick' SEO methods. It's a long term process and it involves generating quality original content on your site.
That's the best advice there is. Andrew |
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Eugene Oregon
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Re: SEO help
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However, since you are using Wordpress, a good place to start might be a decent SEO plugin. Yoast SEO is pretty good, and has a free version. Once installed, on ever page/post on your WP admin it will give you suggestions for how to improve your sites SEO, giving you a greenlight for things that are good, a red light for things that aren't helping your ranking, and a yellow light for things that are okay, but could use improvement. |
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Regular Crew
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Corvallis, OR
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Re: SEO help
Hi Steven,
You might consider investing in a monthly Long Tail Pro subscription. It gives you the tools to find which keywords people are searching for, and what their competitiveness is. After doing some research, you title your articles with the right keyword that has low competition, and you'll start to rank for that keyword. The key is writing long articles (over 2,000 words) to please Google. Cheers, Slavik |
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Major Player
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Philly, PA
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Re: SEO help
Yeah, Yoast SEO plugin is it. Be careful with WP tho, don't overdo it with too many plugins, they've had numerous hacks lately.
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Slash Rules!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 5,472
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Re: SEO help
But isn't it true that regardless of content that makes SEO happy, some hosts/platforms are simply more friendly/findable for search engines than others? For instance I have a site I build in Iweb and upload to a server, was thinking of switching to SquareSpace or one of those other platforms later this year, mostly for that reason.
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Philly, PA
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Eugene Oregon
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Re: SEO help
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In short, search engines don't favor one host over another, but things like hosting configuration and response times, which can vary depending on who is hosting your site, can make a difference. |
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Slash Rules!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Houston, Texas
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Re: SEO help
I do have a dedicated domain, that's one thing I've done right. But as the rest I think the way some of these other hosting platforms (Squarespace, etc.) are coded might be more up to date/modern etc. than the ancient Iweb that I'm using. I hope. Maybe not.
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