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If a 14-year old like me made it to the frontpage of the bloody competitive keyword “Make Money Online,” Do you have a reason why you can’t?
No, SEO isn’t that hard really. All you have to do is know the basics and treat Google like a 3 year old boy looking for the cookie jar in a big kitchen.
Larry page once said:
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
That’s what the little boy wants then what do you do? You FEED it to him – Easily.
Just imagine beating your competitor with thousands of backlinks and you with let’s say a hundred or two. Just check out how this blog with 30k backlinks overtook Bidvertiser with over 3,000,000! Yes, those are 6 zeros.
I hope I got you excited (But not too excited that you peed). Here are the 7 Golden SEO tricks that will surely beat the hell out of your competition:
1. Proper Placement and Use of Header Tags
Take a look at the source code of my blog. You’ll see that only few lines after the body tag, the h1 tag is placed with the keywords I wanted to optimize. It gives Google an early decision of what this blog is about.
Also, using of too many header tags or too many words in a single header tag may raise the flag to Google. Limit your use of the same tag in one page. Try to vary it from h1 to h6.
2. Domain Canonicalization
I know. It’s complicated, hard to pronounce and spell.
People think URLS like www.domain.com and domain.com are all the same, but search engines don’t. You can actually make two different sites from those.
What you should do is canonicalize them. Choose one and leave the other so that Google won’t go nuts on what site to rank (Remember, he’s a 3 year old) and what site to give credit for the backlinks each has got.
Here’s how you can canonicalize your domain. Add this to your .htaccess or use this plugin if you’re on Wordpress.
3. Reduce Duplicate Content within Your Site
Wordpress creates duplicate content like a maniac. There are dupes in the trackbacks, feeds, categories, monthly archives and more.
When Google finds a site with duplicate content, they throw it in their trash bin called “The Supplemental Index” Where all less trusted articles are placed.
I guess you know that Google hates (Very much) duplicate content, so what if your site has a lot of pages under the supplemental index? There icouldi be a possibility that some of your pages would rank down than what it ranks normally.
A quick solution to this is by placing a robots.txt file in your site (See mine for example) to block search engines from indexing trackbacks, feeds, categories, archives where duplicate content lies.
4. Permalinks
What most people always forget when optimizing their site for search engines is their post permalinks. Most sites have numbered permalinks (e.g. /?p=123 or /002429.html) That obviously search engines won’t understand. Permalinks can be used to put it keywords about your post title. Convert those numbered permalinks into /post-title
Use dashes, they’re the best. Underscores are the next best. No space is worst – Matt Cutts.
5. Relevancy of Title And Meta Tags
Google got smarter, smarter to understand the difference of homonyms. Google now understands what you’re talking about.
He knows LSI – Latent Semantic Indexing.
Would you title a page “Dogs” if mostly you’re talking about cats? Of course not, it’s actually obvious. It’s harder to game Google now, so use the most relevant title and meta keywords to what your blog is talking about.
6. Keyword Density
Although yes, Google knows LSI, they still like the old fashion way of ranking pages by counting its density. BUT not too much… again, Google just got smarter.
Personally, I would allow 2-4% of the content to be the keywords.
7. The Right Way to Interlink Pages
When more and more content is added to your site, there will be times when you’ll be mentioning some of the topics you have covered before. A link from your own domain still counts as a backlink. Although it doesn’t count as much as from another site, it will surely help.
Of course, you can pump out the power of interlinking by using it with something more powerful – Anchor texts. Because what I have observed from other blogs when they interlink their posts is they use anchor texts like “The dog ate the cat (read it here)” You can change it by placing an anchor text like “Read how the dog ate the cat”
My BEST Tip
Don’t be afraid of trying things. Don’t be dumb enough to try it in your bread and butter either. Experiment, study then experiment again.
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WOW Carl! Great article about beating google :evil:
Thanks for the tips dude, but is there some kind of program or wordpress plugin that automatically counts keyword density in you article?
You can use this tool: http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php to determine keyword density
It’s great to see young talent in action!
Sweet guide! :)
I will definitely be working on SEO on a few of my sites.
Solid SEO tips, but did any of them really get you the number 1 spot for “make money online”? These are all on-site factors and we all know that Google puts a ton of weight on off-site links and anchor text.
Never give all info you got :wink:
On the other hand, Yes the article concentrated on onsite factors and how I overtook bidvertiser with 3M backlinks
Wicked… :shock:
Carl, thanks for sharing your 7 golden seo tips. Will implement it in my site. :twisted:
WOW Carl, this is a very good post!
This will help me get started on my journey of blogging :) THANKS!
-Mike
wow.. thanks for the tips :)
Btw, I would like to ask one simple question. In the field of SEO, can blogspot overcome wordpress? or which is better, blogspot or wordpress? or these blogging platforms doesn’t really matter at all? ^_^
Thanks ;)
The platform MATTERS.
I’d go with WordPress as I have total control of the site. You can’t even add a sitemap on blogspots.
Although I am getting the level of traffic which I am not expecting but I have to admit that I am not that good in SEO skills.
I have read many tips on them and many of it sounds Greek to me. One of the reasons that I don’t like to do SEO is that I don’t like to get my theme screwed up (I often does).
I guess maybe I should start with something easy like keyword density and internal linking. :wink:
Great SEO tricks. I liked the last one. Great job…
You’ve got a nice blog, I just subscribed to your feeds. Keep writing good stuff! :mrgreen:
Nice and great tips.. I also love seo Experiment. here is one of my tips.. if you may allow
http://techathand.net/2007/10/how-did-i-got-1-from-google-serp-in-manny-vs-barrera-fight-result/
Great article, too bad the Digg users flamed you and left negative comments again.
Thanks for the great tips, appreciated.
good tips and some of this may help but it’s your “juicy” back links that got you where you are… especially with Big G.
Good tips. By the time you’re my age, you should be a billionaire at this rate.
You are showing as 2nd here.
Probably just on my datacenter though.
wow! nice article,
(btw, you’re gone for 2 days?)
Hey Carl Hows it going. Like the post and I grabbed the plug-in, very cool plugin that one is.
Like what you did with your Robots.txt file
Congratulations Carl! Those are some great tips too. It’s all basic SEO but they’re things most people neglect to do.
Great article. Now, what I should do is put it to good use.
Great Article. Now to put this to good use.
Thanks for sharing this one..^^..this is a very useful article.
This is another effective linkbaiting strategy.
Don’t worry about the Digg comments, because it only matters that you got a lot diggs — no what they comment.
where are the flame comments?
deleted it already?
Great article but thats now how you got to the top of google. The marketing of your age etc is how you got there. Every Seo blog has the same list. Not everybody is making to the top ranks of google tho.
I’ve heard different stories on the Permalink thing. Some people say it doesn’t matter, others that it’s of marginal importance and others say having a keyword in the URL is very important.
I think it’s quite important from a user friendly standpoint because they can visually scan the URL and determine what the link is about where a query string link or a code number link won’t provide this feedback. This could play into search ranking simply because visitors are more likely to click a link they feel like they can trust.
Nice Post, Carl. You have listed out some very good points.
Thats great advise
I’m 15 years old (just thought you should know)
I’m bookmarking this site
thanks for the great tips…
Thank you for the tips, and great job on the ranking.
Carlo - I was looking at your robots.txt file - based on your suggestions about duplicate content, would it be wise to Disallow WordPress /category/ and /tag/ directories also?
Good article carl, want lots of SEO tips from you. I request you to view my site and point out my faults.
Please carl, Thanks!
Great tips buddy,I have tried a few of those and quite successful with what i have done. thanks a lot for the tips
Very Well Done Carl, I have added you as an example to my post! Thanks for these really cool tips! It will help a lot especially for us beginners!
Very Well Done Carl, Congrats!
These is a very cool tips for us especially for beginners like me… I like the part that says “Don’t be afraid of trying things. Don’t be dumb enough to try it in your bread and butter either. Experiment, study then experiment again”. Very challenging!!!
Short, sweet and too the point, well done.
Great post Carl and thanks for the tips - I know there are severl off site factors that come into ply here too but these are good onsite tips for those targeting SEO strategies.
Chris
Wow, thanks for these tricks, I’ll definitely be sure and focus on some of those!
Good article on SEO…but I have one question. In tip #3, you talk about reducing dup content. But you have the same article as an individual blog post and on your SEO section. Wouldn’t that trip up the content filter…I’ve heard that the best way to avoid this is to do a “Read more…” teaser on category pages.
Excellent Article! Im going to put this into practice straight away!
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Great article. Your tip about permalink redirects actually led me to realise that was a problem for me. Thanks.
Nice tips carlo
I also notice that you do tips “The Right Way to Interlink Pages” on your pages very neatly.. i like that :).
thanks for the tips
best regards and joy
Ziqry
http://www.123toattractwealth.com
Great article, and its amazing how your site is on top. Great site, and article.
jase240
Awesome young fellow! Are you guy really 13 years old? I am good myself at seo (I’m on the first page for the keyword affiliate marketing with a handful of backlinks as well), but it;s the first time I hear this: Canonicalization!
I will try it man, thanks.
Franck The body guard.
Hello Carl,
Its been while I am seeing your blog. Great work dude.
Congrats on beating money…..blogspot.com…
I would like to list some points in your seo list…..
All your onpage stuff and…..
1) your original/good content
2) Back links most are related (in compare to bidvertiser.com’s lacs of links which are not related)
3) your are linking to your competitors ( I don’t know how but you grab them ;))
4) And last but not least your so called “13-14 years boy” popularity….(yes Google looks those as well)
Let us know how you gather this much good back links and how much you spent (in terms of time, money, help etc.) and your strategy for gaining it.
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Thanks and Best of Luck
Hi,
absolutely amazing what you know at your age, i wish i had this type of knowlege.
I for sure have to work on my sites SEO for sure.
they would be hard to find out in google land.
steve
Good info mate !!
Thanks
Congratulations! Great blog!
But it looks like the blogspot person beat you to #1 now.
Carl, is all that high ranking converting into dollars for you? We would be interested in a post on how that #1 ranking affected your bottom line
Carl,
I read somewhere you commented, “wow the hard work is finally paying off”. I assume in reaction to your rankings. What would you say was this hard work? Link building?
Do you recall how many links you built manually?
thanks
vlad
http://www.imoneyonline.com
Thanks Carl, good info! Question though. I pretty new and was wondering where you put the Robot txt file. when you upload it? Wp-content? or ??
Thanks,
Jay
Although you could have mentioned the real reason why you managed to get on #1 for make money online, it is a good post.
I really appreciate all the tips — really inspiring.
That’s Wordpress plugin redirect thing, however, that gave errors when trying to redirect a post that appeared in Google to my site.
So I deactivated that.
Really helpful article great work!
Sorry dude you are not number one.
Yep yep! He is NOT!
Carl I am sure your generous information will be helpful to many, including myself. It was great that you supplied the code too. I am trying to increase traffic to my art related blog which is gaining popularity but still needs a boost and this was helpful for me. Thank you.
It would be helpful if you could return to answer some of the questions in the feedback comments above posted over the past few months?
Well done and congratulations. If I was your age, I would promote it too. Good on you.
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How the hell got Bidvertiser 6 million backlinks?!!!