Are you being tempted by the dark side?
Are you looking for great results without the hard work?
If you are, you are heading for a very big fall because the grass most certainly isn’t greener on the dark side.
As an online marketer, search engine optimisation is vital for your survival. But the only effective way to boost your visibility is through an effective, white hat SEO strategy.
It’s not a quick fix, it’s a long term solution that needs constant nurturing. So if that sounds like too much like hard work to you, perhaps you’d better rethink your online marketing career.
Creating a winning SEO strategy
If you’re hoping that I’m now going to say I was just kidding and you can achieve great rankings really easily – you’re going to be disappointed.
To be an SEO winner you’ll need the following on your shopping list:
- Well researched keywords
- A professionally designed website by someone who understands SEO
- A professional SEO copywriter to create reader-friendly copy
- A link building strategy
SEO is a slow burner – overnight results are unlikely (but not impossible, that depends on the competitiveness of your keywords) but if you keep at it and maintain your strategy’s momentum, you’ll get long lasting organic results.
And organic results means no hefty pay per click bill every month.
Creating a losing SEO strategy
If all of that seems like hard work to you, there are some techniques you can adopt to cut corners.
Of course, if you do that you will also encounter the wrath of Google which is never nice. Plus, your website will probably look shocking, read abysmally and will never convert a visitor in a month of Sundays.
Those lovely people at SEOmoz have produced a list of 32 SEO tactics to avoid. These are all black hat techniques which must be avoided at all costs.
Grab yourself a coffee and have a read through them and make sure your strategy is above board and whiter than white.
Some of the comments are really interesting too.
Over to you
What has been your most successful SEO strategy?
Please leave a comment and share your experiences.