Comments on: Simple SEO How To

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:36:27 +0000

I missed this comment — sorry about that.

Not ridiculous at all. You need to decide what you want them to be. What SINGLE action do you want visitors to take? Do you want them to sign up for your newsletter? Do you want them to click through to your affiliate offer? Do you want them to buy your product?

Based on that, think about your searcher. What keywords are the best match for the outcome that you want?

In your case, you might want to look at the google keyword tool and see what people are searching for.

A quick look shows….

dog pictures
funny dog pictures
cut dog pictures
bulldog pictures
dog portraits
dog art

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:27:03 +0000

Thanks Allan.

By: Susan Gertz

Susan Gertz — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:16:07 +0000

This may sound ridiculous, but I am not sure what my keywords are. I know that “dogs” is part of it, but that is too broad. Something like “dog art” maybe, or “custom dog art”? How to I decide?

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:45:32 +0000

Thanks very much.

By: Don Crame

Don Crame — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:38:58 +0000

You Said “This is a big question. Here is the “simple” way to think about it.”
but you you covered it all, as always great content, these are snippits of valuable info to anyone starting out. keep them coming.

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:12:30 +0000

Joe — I have not looked at the H1/H2 handling in Firepow in about 6 months. Andrew released a plugin that does the right thing. Recommend that you use that.

I am not sure what you mean by “hidden”

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:57:04 +0000

mark you say…

Make sure your keywords are in your heading (H1) tags

if you are using the h1 tag in firepow its hidden along with the h2? is this ok?

joe

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:33:16 +0000

I sort of forgot about this site — reviving the case study is a great idea.

By: Ron Lovell

Ron Lovell — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:01:13 +0000

This is great information, I always wondered what the key was. Will start making changes thanks to you.

By: rajul kaushik

rajul kaushik — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:11:10 +0000

Hey Mark,
Your themes are really good, neat and simple.
Thanks for the SEO tips. BTW: would you please take a look at the site in my sig below and advise if I have build the blogsite well enough?
Thank you.
Rajul

By: Patrik Berggren

Patrik Berggren — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:30:44 +0000

Hi Mark,

good SEO is when You create pages with correct semantic, using h1 – h3, paragraphs, lists etc. Don’t write explicitly for search engines, write for Your visitors. If the can get a clear view on WHAT the page is about looking at the title, the description (wich will show up in searchengines), and then using the h1 – h3, everyone have done what they can. Then it’s all up to the “off-page”, wich SHOULD be built naturally

Regards
/Patrik Berggren

By: Allan Schmidt

Allan Schmidt — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:55:10 +0000

Spot on.

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:26:57 +0000

Thanks Aaron. When I first started in Internet Marketing, I spent countless hours worrying about SEO details that do not matter for most of us. I will never get those hours back, but hopefully I can save some new people some time and energy.

By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:57:07 +0000

Great article Mark. Why don’t more people listen to this advice? Just what you teach here will get most people to the front page of Google.