It's not easy to say what the top 10 best SEO tips really are, especially with all the so-called "experts" claiming to know the latest SEO tricks and "secrets Google doesn't want you to know about." It would take you days, even weeks to sort through this mess. So we thought we'd make it easy for beginners at SEO and condense all the clutter into what we call our Top 10 SEO tips and tricks.

Keep in mind, though, that we did not list these in any particular order. #1 will be just as important as #10 and so on. Our goal is not to say which tips are more or less valuable, but rather, to give beginners a starting point in their SEO efforts. These are all important and they apply to any industry or organization.

10. Free SEO is Still SEO

There's a misconception out there that SEO has to cost an arm and a leg. And while it's true that the very best SEO services will cost you (mainly because it costs the SEO company to provide it!), there are plenty of free SEO optimization techniques you can apply to your blog or corporate website. You can:

Shore up your on-page SEO
Analyze your competition with free SEO tools
Research keywords with the Google Keyword Tool
Contact other bloggers for guest blogging opportunities
Write an epic, pillar article for your blog that will attract links and visitors for years

9. Start With Local SEO

It can be tempting to shoot for the stars and set your goals on keywords like "Accountant" or "Auto Insurance." But before you go after these blockbuster keywords, it makes a lot more sense to target easier local SEO keywords like "Houston Accountant" or "Miami Auto Insurance," depending on where your business is located.

8. Google SEO is a Slow Process

This is one of the more simple SEO tips to understand, although one of the most frustrating. No matter how well you take heed of Google SEO tips and tricks, the process is going to be slow. No one is able to rank a site #1 overnight unless the keyword is completely useless. No one. And this makes sense for Google, too, as it prevents the SERPs from fluctuating too much. You have to prove yourself for more than just a week for Google to reward you with a top 10 ranking. And if we're talking about the top keywords, it very well might take you or your SEO company an entire year. This goes for Google as well as Yahoo and Bing, and for any CMS–Wordpress, Joomla, whatever. No one is exempt from this trust-building phase.

7. SEO Copywriting is Everything

Link-building gets all the attention, but just remember that the only reliable information Google has about your site is the content you write on it. Think of your blog posts as little spider webs, each of them serving to "catch" another segment in your target audience. Let's say your site is about cars. There are sports car fans, luxury car fans, convertible fans, monster truck fans, etc. It would be impossible to attract all of these different types of fans with a site just about "cars"–that's too generic. But writing a blog post about sports cars, another post about monster trucks, etc, will help you capture all of these different types of fans.

6. SEO is Always Tough for Beginners

It can be a rough first few weeks and months for beginners who want to learn SEO. There's a lot of new terminology to memorize (what the heck is Joomla?), lots of outdated information (do meta keywords still matter?), and the competition is getting fiercer by the day. But here's the good news: every SEO expert today was a beginner at some point in the past, and they reached guru status by a constant focus on improving their SEO game. No one is born with SEO knowledge; it doesn't "come naturally" to anyone since SEO itself was invented years after each of us was born.

5. SEO Comes Before Web Design

Web design is inherently sexy. SEO...not so much.

And although we're the first to admit that web design is extremely important, it's a good idea to take care of your SEO before you work on your web design, or at least, your web designer should have a professional SEO at his side to consult him.

This simple SEO tip will save you hours of headaches later down the line, as it's an absolute pain to go back and have to change your core web design to make it search-engine friendly. Much better to fix this at the start.

4. Bing SEO = Google SEO

A common mistake SEO bloggers make is they think they have to optimize their website for Google and Bing separately, somehow thinking that these two search engines have drastically different ranking algorithms. The truth is that yes, their algorithms are different, but it's no use trying to use two separate strategies to rank your sites on both. What works for one will probably work for the other, and most of their algorithm differences are things you can't control anyway (keywords in your domain name, for example).

3. Focus on Link Diversity

Recently, research out of SEOmoz confirmed what many top SEOs already knew: it's not just how many links you receive, it's from how many different websites. Google loves to see link diversity in your backlink profile, so give them what they want to see and try to score links from as many different sites as possible.

Here's a snippet of the data that came out of the SEOmoz research study:



What the graphic basically means is that SERP rankings have a 0.25 correlation with SEO rankings. In normal human terms, this means that link diversity makes up about 6.25% of the entire Google algorithm. This might not seem like much, but it actually is pretty important. Google has stated that they look at more than 200 search engine ranking factors when calculating their rankings, which means that the average ranking factor accounts for 0.5% of the entire algorithm. This makes link diversity 12.5x more important than your average ranking factor.

2. Read the Top Online SEO forums

This is probably the most simple SEO tip on this top 10 list. It doesn't take any special software or expert knowledge. All you have to do is read.

Although the top SEO experts tend to stay away from the forums (they're too busy running their own firms!), there are still plenty of knowledgeable people who are more than happy to help you succeed in your SEO efforts. There is an absolute goldmine of free SEO tips and tricks available on SEO forums. If you're paying attention, you'll be able to recognize the experts from the novices. Once you do, pay extra attention to each of their posts, as they've been through it all and back.

1. Don't Give Up

I know I mentioned at the start that these top 10 SEO tricks and tips are in no particular order, but I'm going to have to take that back, because this last one is of prime importance.

I can't count the number of times I've seen beautiful websites go to waste because their owners just gave up on the SEO game. Too much work, too much time, too much money, so they say.

Thanks for sharing this useful inforamtion and also if your are going with SEO then you have to keep patients for get good result because it could take some time to give result. Also make sure that always research on internet about SEO and increase your content with webmasters and SEO experts, they can helpful for you anytime.

You can also follow seomoz blog for latest update in SEO.

In SEO it is not possible to get instant result so everyone have to be in patients sometimes beginner in SEO start using black hat SEO techniques to get instant result but black hat is an unethical SEO technique which is against search engine guide lines and your website should be penalize by search engine because of using black hat techniques so for those who are new in this field never influence with black hat technique to get good result.

SEO trend has been changed by time and I think this is the time of social media marketing. It's a great way that you can use for increase your site traffic and also you can promote your business online. You can use social media sites like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter. These site has million of visitors so you can easily drive good traffic for your site.

Nice Tips. You can also read the book "The art of SEO".

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Nice post.  In this field we need to focus on unique and original content and secondly use the good quality backlinks.

It's not easy to say what the top 10 best SEO tips really are, especially with all the so-called "experts" claiming to know the latest SEO tricks and "secrets Google doesn't want you to know about." It would take you days, even weeks to sort through this mess. So we thought we'd make it easy for beginners at SEO and condense all the clutter into what we call our Top 10 SEO tips and tricks.

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Fresh content can help improve your ratings. Add new, useful articles to your websites consistently. Content quality contributes relevance to your site in the face of the google. Concentrate on key terms, not single key terms, and put your location in your textual content to help you get found in local queries.

Top SEO forums cant only guide you but can solve your major problems even

Top 10 SEO Tips for Beginners are: Titles for links, Find the Best Keywords, Start With Local SEO, URL Structure, Proper Use of Heading Tags and Write natural quality content.

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But in SEO we need to have some patient we need to give time as all the matter depends upon other sites like links, submissions  their approvals So we need to give that time.

Thanks again thanks for sharing this will definitely help many new buds.

Exchange  links with websites that will bring you targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors and/or customers that will be interested in your products  or services.

Links on .edu or .gov links are the most and most respected by Google. I also swear by article submission and extensive blog posting.

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I agree and I suggest Start With Local SEO - It can be tempting to shoot for the stars and set your goals on keywords like "Accountant" or "Auto Insurance." But before you go after these blockbuster keywords, it makes a lot more sense to target easier local SEO keywords like "Houston Accountant" or "Miami Auto Insurance," depending on where your business is located. Is very effective strat to start with.

I have several SEO tips for beginners like 1) first do on page optimization for your website. 2) Then write unique content for your website 3). Daily update your website blog content and after update promote your blog. 4) then create quality backlink. If you create quality backlink then your all post in high PR and dofollow site. According to me this are the best tips for SEO beginner.

If you are a retail shop then link-wheels are maybe the best idea. I have a little Pawpoint SEO Cheat Sheet to show you how. Just PM me your email (and a backlink would be appreciated) and I will send to you

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SEO is really good to rank your website on top of the major SERPs. Wonderful to increase your business and to get traffic.

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