What do I really need

[AshJez]

That's better EGOL.

I am aware that I can't get to position one overnight and that it will take time. I also realize that the learning curb may be steep and that is why I am here.

Thank you for your updated comments.

[AshJez]

Many thanks webfeatseo.

[dogflog]

AshJez,

Webfeat and EGOL make a centralized point in their responses and it has to do with content and effort.

Theo points out that no one tool is going to be your key to success.

Further, they all made the point that SEO is a business and requires a concerted effort on many fronts to get found at a high level and then convert search into dollars.

Probably the most important point is that SEO is a business of constant trial and error. Tools can help you to an extent but, success has more to do with the magician as opposed to the wand.

As you move ahead you'll find yourself using all sorts of tools on a regular basis. Most of the people in this forum have tools constantly running as browser add-ons and such that are giving them a never ending supply of metrics as they cruise the web.

What good are those metrics all compiled in a spreadsheet or in one's head if they aren't being put to work in a practical manor every day.

The only way to learn at this stage is to do. Preparing to do, wanting to do, wishing to do, is not doing.

**What you need, is to write stuff. **

The easiest way to get found AT ANY POINT IN YOUR SEM CAREER is to have more good content than your competitors.

Before I knew about any of the tools available, I would keep a running list of possible topics. Don't even think of them as keywords at this point. Just make sure that they are relevant and useful to readers.

It's easy to get lost in Google Keyword Tool for days at a time. Tap into your friends and family at first.

Send a simple email to a few people and ask them what they would type into google if they were searching for "whatever it is you do".

I do this now, you would be amazed at the simple and effective keywords actual humans will give you. Absolute Gold. I got a long tail keyword a few months ago from a guy I hadn't seen in years that is delivering my client over 120 visits per day.

I never ever would have though of it as a keyword. Now Google shows it as a suggested word when someone begins to type it's root into the search box.

**The best topics are simple, they pose the question and provide an informed answer. **

Keep loading up the site with simple content and then you can start using tools.

You would have to be in a really tough niche if you can't get at least a few visits per day with 20,000 words on your site. That may sound like a lot of words but many of the people in this forum have hundreds of thousands of words on their site, even millions.

Think about these words as built up equity. Every time you post an article, your building a little more equity in your site and in your brand.

Words are an investment. If you were a fisherman would you want a bigger net or a smaller one? Words are your net.

Write something as OFTEN as you can.

Now, once you start to build more and more equity, starting in a tight niche and expending slowly, now you can circle back and start paying more attention to tools.

Monitor google analytics each day to see what worked:

• what type of modifier worked better than others - does adding a year or a locale to your article title work?

• what type of writing worked better, highly technical or conversational

• what length of article worked better

• what keyword density worked better (don't concern yourself too much with this)

Different niches will require different things.

Once you've done enough to get a little search traffic, expand on the post that worked, write a similar post about a slightly different topic.

Basically, throw some stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

A tool like SEOMoz may not be your answer.... yet... but, it will be once you have something to monitor!

I doubt that will be an "Endorsed Answer" but, I also doubt that Rand himself would ask for your last dollar with hardly anything to monitor or the know how to monitor it. You can get the know how for free on this site.

[webfeatseo]

I pmed you again about your link. What you sent me was not working. Please resend.

[AshJez]

Okay I've tried again.

[MarieA]

There is no need to be rude. You should learn to be a bit more grateful when an experts uses his time off to help you for free.

[fatetmpwcosl]

You need to do some off page stuff for your site to rank it on google with the help of SEO. I have done it for my blog post.

[Bshu7]

• what type of writing worked better, highly technical or conversational

• what length of article worked better

• what keyword density worked better (don't concern yourself too much with this)

Different niches will require different things.

Once you've done enough to get a little search traffic, expand on the post that worked, write a similar post about a slightly different topic.

Basically, throw some stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

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