How to SEO how-to website?

[kikocherman]

I've launched the website www.ComoFazer.com.br, which is a Brazilian how-to website (the domain is literally how to in Portuguese).

How can I get to the top rankings? My strategy so far:

• made all the on-page SEO stuff
• put 4 sidebar links in family websites
• bought the $90 package in GetLinksPro for 100 dofollow links
• spent about $100 in Facebook Ads to get 2k followers there

I want help regarding SEO and strategy for this kind of sites.

[BailHotline]

Hey there Kikocherman,

I would love to help you but your question is a little vague.

• What 'how-to' tutorials exactly is your website showing? Is it on any category or one specific category (e.g. How to repair cars)?

• What keywords or phrases are you looking to get ranked for specifically?

• Who is your target market?

Also just a word of advice, you should never have to buy back links to your website. Most places like that are very unreliable and only provide weak links. Just one strong, legitimate and relevant link, will easily out weight all of those purchased links. However, good call on the Facebook Ads.

[RobertFisher]

It would appear you are trying to become the Brazilian eHow. Given that they are not favorites of Google, etc. I would say be careful. You are already starting off using some questionable methodologies - Paid links as a starter. As to the sidebar links, they are discounted, so you need to stay after it for real quality links. If you dont mind spending a few dollars, Yahoo Directory ($295) could be a good direction. I would also insure that you are tight on local and are on every citation site you can find. There is a good list: http://www.seomoz.org/directories and here is a great Cyrus Shepard post around web directories and linking. 

Obviously, your biggest challenge will be to have content around How To. So, you have your work cut out for you.

Hope this helps a bit,