Do It Yourself SEO - A Step by Step Guide

In this section I'll go into what it takes to do SEO yourself on your own site, or for clients. SEO may be time consuming and may take several talents that not all people possess, but it's not rocket science, and it can be done by almost anyone who is dedicated to the task. Over the next few weeeks I hope to build a checklist of best SEO practices that anyone with full access to a website can implement.

Let's take SEO step by step.

On-site SEO factors:

1. The Project
2. Keyword Research
3. Site and Domain Naming
4. Age of Site
5. Page Titles
6. Page Contents
7. Alt Tags
8. Meta Description
9. Meta Tags

Off-Site Factors:

1. Page Rank Factors
2. Submit your site to the search engines.
3. Submit your site to social bookmarking sites.
4. Submit articles with your backlink to Article Submission sites.
5. Submit to blogs.
6. Submit to Social Networking sites.

Onsite factors used to be the most important factors on a website. now they remain important core of a good website. With competition for the first 10 spots on Google getting stiffer and stiffer off-site factors have become more and more important. As a matter of fact it's impossible to compete in today's world at a national or global level without making sure that all of your off-site factors are being updated and added to on a regular basis.

Use this information any way you see fit. If at any point you feel that the learning curve is too steep, this is not for you, or you can make more money by focusing on your own business and letting the SEO experts handle the SEO, feel free to contact Action Website and SEO for help.

If you'd like to do your own SEO, and you'd like a report that goes into detail about all aspects of your site, visit our SEO Report page.