Comments on: The 80/20 Of Search Engine Optimization – Part 2

By: Mr.Dirtbikes

Mr.Dirtbikes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:31:52 +0000

“Link Relevancy and ‘Do Keywords In Domain Names Matter?’”

In my opinion, this is the important key to success especially “Relevancy Link” is so important for help boost our ranking in Google.

By: mark harrison

mark harrison — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:24:33 +0000

Yaro
I liked it but really there was nothing new in this. The most disturbing thing about SEO is the amount of mis-information as evidenced by a few of the comments on here.

By: Shane Wallace

Shane Wallace — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:52:03 +0000

I am constantly amazed how people that are so called SEO experts that have no idea about some most powerful factors in SEO, I understand that Brad has enjoyed lots of success for his wedding favors business so kudos to him for that – but if he doesnt think that having a keyword rich domain is a HUGE HUGE influencer then he simply has not done enough testing probing and pushing the Google or Yahoo algo’s and doesn’t have the right to call himself an SEO expert.

Succesful online marketer YES, SEO expert ahhh NO

I know and can demonstrate for a FACT that having a keyword rich domain is one of the biggest factors influencing organic SERP’s

In fact if you have a 100% dense keyword URL you are starting miles in front of everyone else in the crowd, why ?

All you need to do is watch this video and you will see why,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMZTnin6EQ

Now I am prepared to accept fully that the search term “catholic dating” out of NZ is not exactly competitive turf right – but if you stop and realise that there are at least 3 – 4 pages of contendors,

ie Other sites using the keywords “catholic dating” with various levels of effort put into their on page and off page SEO and my test site is position 7 on page 1 without a single piece of content – NOT EVEN A HOLDING PAGE ! and not one link just the domain name – hell its still there as of the date of this posting you can check it out yourself.

http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=catholic+dating&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Why did I do this, am I interested in catholic dating – no I just test, test, test.

Like to rethink your position Brad ?

By: Luís Seco

Luís Seco — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:19:54 +0000

Hi, Yaro. I’m a Portuguese new blogger and I’ve been building my travel blog around your advice and posts. You’ve been a great help. I’m starting slow with my posts because everytime I come back here I go back to my previous posts and change something on them. I prefer to do things like this so that I can absorb all your excellent tips and than really start posting without coming back and changing things like the titles, the backlinks names, etc.
Thank you very much
See you soon
Luís

By: Tony - Nigerian Entreprenuer

Tony - Nigerian Entreprenuer — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:55:00 +0000

Now I understand why you place emphasis on outsourcing. It is quite difficult to stay on top of the various components that make a good blog. For a good part of today, I have been reading all I can about SEO. I learnt some good tips and I even tweaked my website a little to improve on what I had previously. But then, after reading your post and reflecting back on your suggestions in Blog Profit Blueprint, I have concluded that this is one of the aspect of my blogging business that I will love to outsource to an expert as soon as possible.
Thanks for sharing the 8 tips. I will put them to use. Cheers

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:25:41 +0000

I wouldn’t bother with this technique, it’s very low leverage and won’t bring any significant results.

You should focus on providing value – that’s the best way to build links.

By: UtahLuxury.com

UtahLuxury.com — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:50:01 +0000

I have been toying with the idea of having a link on my site (complete with the code) as a link for others to put onto their website. Would this help for PR or anything because it doesnt just say click here?

By: David Racho

David Racho — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:45:50 +0000

I agree with the last tip about keywords in the domain. It really doesn’t matter, but I think it matters that you do own the top level domain (the part immediately before .com) as having your page hosted on any of the other social network platforms tend to dilute your own rank. Not much, but they know you don’t really control it.

The most important advice I’ve ever heard is have your own domain. You get what you pay for, but domains are cheap these days as are hosting options available.

By: garry

garry — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:36:49 +0000

Thanks! Great article that really drives home many points that I already practice. I just completed a website, that I have great hopes for, and I’m currently turning my focus to Search Engine Marketing. It is indeed a journey to nurture a website along and build its reputation and traffic. Your articles and your success is an inspiration. Keep up the good work.

By: Saidul A Shaari

Saidul A Shaari — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:37:02 +0000

Damn! This is a good post alright.

Learned a lot from this and I hope that Yaro will dish out more goodies such as these in the future.

By: Sirawan nornil

Sirawan nornil — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:10:09 +0000

Hi ,Yaro
Thank you for sharing again, This a best way to SEO .
Google – 1.Title Tags, 2.PageRank and 3.PageRep
Yahoo! – 1.Title Tags, 2.Keyword Density and 3.Link Popularity
sirawannnl

By: Portugal Villas

Portugal Villas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:36:03 +0000

Content is definately the best way to go. It is really great when you start seeing links show up to your site that you haven’t gone out and bought or traded for. It means that you are on the right track and that people see value in your work. Things have gotten a lot more competative over the years and reciprocal links have lost a lot of value in google. I am finding that distributing articles seems to be getting be some links but I am not sure whether they have helped with my rankings as of yet. Google has become so complex and there seems to be some sort of delay so ideally I would like to concentrate on the content , brand and building my mailing list and become non reliant on search engines for my traffic/ income.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:25 +0000

Thanks for the informative articles on 80/20 Search Engine Marketing. As a newbie in this field, I find myself going in circles at times.

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:02:29 +0000

These are some great ideas Yaro, thanks for sharing. I think the key to success, like you mentioned, is quality content and building quality links (rather than quantity).

By: Peter Lee

Peter Lee — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:59:21 +0000

Understanding SEO knowledge and techniques is very important if you want to be successful in Internet Marketing. This article contains very good and useful information and I have learned some new and important ones too today thanks to you.

Peter Lee

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:42:49 +0000

I wonder how you square the idea of poor quality links (not links from directories but links from sites deemed low quality because of lack of traffic and PR now) and the reality that many “poor” sites end up as authorities and quality sites over time?

I take the approach that I am in it for the long haul, so I link as relevantly as possible when I write my own content and dont worry if the site I am linking to is an authority site per se now. Or does Google have a short memory when compiling PR etc?

By: Michael Erik

Michael Erik — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:50:42 +0000

Again, super info here. Also, once again, so frustrating to have to become a scientist in all of this though! Nonetheless, you set the example for a truly quality Blog with quality info, along the lines of what I promote as the “Quality Blogger” from http://www.qualityblogger.com. Hat’s off to you Yaro, keep up the great quality work, we can all learn something from it!

- Michael Erik
Quality Blog Critic
http://www.qualityblogger.com
“The Best Things In Life Are Free”

By: i.nconspicuo.us

i.nconspicuo.us — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:33:14 +0000

Great article, I’ll definitely keep some of those tips in mind next time I’m tweaking my blog!

By: John Luc

John Luc — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:26:40 +0000

Yaro your words ring more true than anyone can know. I found that offsite optimization will bring in more qualified traffic to your site if you stay consistent with your blogging efforts, article marketing, and over forum presence as these particular traffic methods are great for leverage.

I believe you know more about seo than your leading on (good stuff)

whether its short term traffic your looking for or long term traffic, the key is to do seo properly so you can see results overtime.

Great read Yaro.
thanks for the tips

John L.
http://tendollars2wealth.com

By: Yaro

Yaro — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:33:43 +0000

Hi CY – Sitemaps are okay – not miracles by any means but worth having one and in particular it’s worth submitting them to the Google sitemap tool so you can get indexed quickly if that is an area you are having difficulties with.

By: C Y Lack

C Y Lack — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:14:35 +0000

Hi Yaro,

great information but I believe most of these info are easily available. In fact both my websites http://www.articlesjoy.com/SEO/ as well as http://www.articlesjoy.com/easy-SEO/ have similar articles. As mentioned, content is king, but fresh content is definitely difficult to come by.

In your opinion are there better ways to SEO?

I have recently read about Google sitemap and am wondering what is it actually. Whats your view on this?

Cheers.

C Y Lack

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:44:12 +0000

Hi Calvin – I’m glad you liked it!

Hopefully you can go and implement now and get some great results too.

Cheers,
Yaro

By: Calvin Woon

Calvin Woon — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:17:04 +0000

Wow this is amazing!

I think I learnt more about SEO in your two articles than I ever have in all the eBooks. I’ve actually bookmarked both posts and will shall use it as my guide.

Thanks Yaro!

Calvin

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:03:14 +0000

Great advice regarding SEO, Yaro. I’ve bookmarked it to refer it to my boss. We’re working for the release of a new lifestyle-change book and we need to get the word out a little bit more. He’s got his plans already but I’m hoping this will help us too.

Thanks!

By: pat

pat — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:20:36 +0000

Great article Yaro!

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:02:01 +0000

Thank you, Yaro, for an information couple of posts. I’ve learned a lot from visiting your website today.

I can see how all this would have once made money for people, but is it still doing so these days (with so many people trying to jump on the band wagon)?

I hope so.

By: Bill Dueease

Bill Dueease — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:02:52 +0000

Yaro,

I’ve bookmarked both parts of your SEO tips. I learned a lot. I was wondering what the differences were between Google and Yahoo ranking criteria. I find Google ranks pages that are far more relevant to the key words than does Yahoo. Also Yahoo will not change a page title or description even if the page has completely changed itself. (I have examples that are years old) But Google will reflect the page changes very rapidly (generally within days). Consequently, there is clear evidence why Google attracts more traffic. Their search engine is much more accurate, useful, and current. I feel if I can remain highly ranked in Google I will get far more relevant traffic to my site. Whatever happens in Yahoo becomes an accident. Their accident.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:09:23 +0000

Interesting. I have to admit that SEO remains a mystery to me. I seem to be 3 1, 2 or 3 in most rankings having been nowehere a couple of months ago. Mostly it seems to have been about optimizing keywords to page content and, I guess, links. But it still seems to be mostly black art….meaning mysterious!

By: Sydney Nelson

Sydney Nelson — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:11:13 +0000

Very interesting article Yaro and a lots of very good information. I have a new site on internet marketing information and have been recently incorporating a number of the on-page SEO methods you mentioned.

Although I have not attempted any of the off-page methods, I still manage to realize some positive results from the on-page factors.

My site was up for a month or so before I realized it was completely indexed by Yahoo! I think what helpped was that I host it through Geocities under my private domain. I guess Yahoo will by default index sites their partner sites host.

I was very suprised to find I have a number 1 ranking for several keyword phrases. Although they are not very popular search terms, it made me realize the importance of on-page optimization. So I purposly updated the title, meta tag, H1 tag and all of the methods you outlined and realized a higher ranking on Yahoo each time I made improvements. I even moved up over 1 million in Alexa over night!

But, as you mentioned in the 80/20 rule, this is really just the beginning. Although all the on-page factors MUST be established, you must move on and concentrate on the off-page linking strategies.

So that’s my primary purpose now. Thanks for the great information and the inspiration. Boy, if I can get real improvements just from the on-page stuff, I can’t wait to see what happens with the off page linking!

By: Mike Lombardy

Mike Lombardy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:03:10 +0000

The concept of page reputation is increasingly being taken by all search algorithms.
One good evidence is a paper released by a Google engineer: They call it trust rank .
nfolab.stanford.edu/~zoltan/publications/gyongyi2004combating.pdf