How To Become SEO Expert.

SEO|Search Engine Optimization

There are a lot of SEO practices that you would have heard. But there are only few of them which are really effective and will give you better results than expected. With the increase in competition you will find there are many bloggers using black hat activities to get higher PR and traffic but these techniques will lead you to get your site banned by Google. Here I am mentioning some of the great techniques that are easy to implement and will get you huge traffic and relevant clicks to your blog or website.

There are very few companies who will give you the exact result that you expect with your website or blog. However the task of SEO is not difficult you can also implement various techniques by yourself. I am giving you list of best SEO strategies that will surely help you to become SEO expert.

1. Prefer Practicing over learning:

You will get a lot of books and tutorials guiding you the ways of SEO but I suggest you to learn SEO by doing. It depends on how you implement those ideas that you have read in books. So always try to work practically and see the results, analyze that result and think how you can get better result. I personally recommend you to not implement or practice SEO only on client sites but also create your own site, build links, rank your keywords higher, attract huge traffic and try to implement all new strategies that strike your mind. As you learn what works for your blog or website you will help others in better way with their SEO. You need to be up to date with the trends so regularly update your knowledge because search world constantly changes and it’s almost impossible to stay up to date by just reading news and books. 

2. Build Larger Network: 

As a SEO expert you should have strong relationship over Internet with other bloggers. You should be good at sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Zing, Delicious and others. It really helps you to get top quality link and a great success ratio. By building relationships with other users in these sites you will know ins and outs of the sites and how to use the site for better results. I recommend you personally to never stop networking even if you are working on on-page SEO or link building. Because of my relationship with other bloggers they always help me as guest writers and write best posts for me.  Many times I get link to most popular blogs just not because my blog is good but its also because I have a good relationship with them.

 3. Take Risks:

 Taking risks doesn’t mean that you should take risks of breaking Google’s policies or doing anything unethical. Taking risks simply means that you need to be aggressive. If you are aggressive with your site than you’ll learn in very short time what boosts rankings and what doesn’t. You need to learn to push the envelope. There are many things that you will learn with your creativity and aggressiveness. You already know that building link by white hat techniques will improve your search ranking but did you know that that if you build links at a slow and steady pace you can out rank someone who builds the same type of links too fast? If I weren’t aggressive with my link building strategy, I would have never learned that.

4. Effective SEOs Analyze results better:

Effective SEOs are analytical. Analysis means you should go deeply through the results and see if it improves your revenue or not. Spending your efforts to rank keywords higher that won’t increase your revenue is of worth. Everyone knows how to rank keywords? But do they really know what keywords to rank? Keywords analysis is very important and being analytical will be your plus point as an effective SEO expert. You must be good from researching keywords, to tracking ranks, optimizing landing pages, building links etc. Good SEO is not all about only getting traffic it’s all about increasing revenues. Don’t focus your 100% on link building and getting higher PR. Learn web analytics and focus on increasing revenues and analyze results practically. It will help you to take great decisions.

5. Don’t rely on Single tactic:

 Always use multiple tactics for SEO even if you are getting good results using just a single tactic. There are various ways to do things implement most of them. Relying on a single tactic will give you results for a fixed time after that you’ll see negative results from the same technique that used to be your power trick. If you use a single tactic then after some time you’ll be get caught up by search engines and your technique won’t work after then. When I first started reciprocal linking, I got my rankings on top after some time when I got caught by search engines my rankings started to fall. After that I used another tactic and that too worked for some time then I came to know that I must use multiples tactics at a time to rank well and maintain it. I want to tell you that even you are ranking higher you cannot rely on a single tactic. 

6. Creativity is the biggest tool of SEO:

As Search engine optimization isn’t a new. Everyone is familiar with this and does this. There isn’t that much secret left. But peoples who really dig it through their creativity always get other ways of SEO. Creative people become best SEO experts because they think out of box and their work reflects the same. Use a different approach and analyze results deeply, you will get to know many other new things.   You will find a number of people succeeded in SEO because of their creativity e.g. Matt Inman, He was the guy behind mingle 2 and The Oatmeal. If you use different approach to do things, leverage it. It gives you a head start.

7. Never Depend on Common SEO strategies:

Yes you read it right, Its good if you use simple SEO strategies but never rely on those strategies. Effective SEO Experts never rely on SEO. You need to be up to date with panda update. For example the Panda update hit some sites even though they had good content. A lot of these sites got out of panda so what could be the reason of this? They were just using SEO. If you want to rank higher use advertisement methods such as banner ads, animated ads etc. It will bring you good traffic and is the best way to diversify your approach to get traffic and increase revenue.

I hope this post helped you in some way. Please share how you liked it and tell us if you know any other practices that should be done to become a good SEO expert.