Beginners Recipe for Success

[jgmayes]

I have just began to jump in to the world of SEO and I have done a lot of ready and trying to understand everything. What in your mind as an expert is the most important factors?

1. Link Building

2. Optimizing to Keywords

3. Correcting on page Errors

Are these the top 3 factors? Is there something that I am missing? Is there an order to the priority - or does it take an attack on all fronts?

Any advice on a newbie - to start seeing results?

The site I am working on is http://whitetail-mafia.com

Here are some of my stats which seem to be comparable to some of my bigger competitors:

Page Authority: 43

Page MozRank: 4.25

Page MozTrust: 5.27

Internal Followed Links: 2,024

External Followed Links: 235

Total Internal Links: 2,025

Total External Links: 237

Total Links: 2,262

Followed Linking Root Domains: 37

Total Linking Root Domains: 38

Linking C Blocks: 19

I honestly just don't know enough yet to see these values as good, bad, or ugly. I also want to know that I am putting the right amount of effort in the right place....

Thanks for any advice you have,

The Newbie in Need

[TakeshiYoung]

All the things you listed are important.

As for ranking those factors, I would say #1 would be figuring out the goals of your site.  Are you trying to make money?  Build your brand?  What do you want your visitor to do once they get to your site?  What are your landing pages?  Once you have a better grasp of that, then you can start to figure out what keywords to target and how much effort you want to put into it.

On-page factors are important of course, most importantly having quality, relevant content.  If you follow SEO best practices and create content that other people find useful, then you're on the right track.

As for link building, MozRank, PageRank etc. it's all relative to what your competitors have.  Once you've identified your keywords, you can take a look at the sites that are ranking higher than you in the search engines to figure out how much effort you need to put into linkbuilding to outrank them.

Hope that helps.