Five best practice for SEO
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Hello Everyone,
I am new to SEO and need some help. I have 6 sites and I need to know what are the top 5 strategies for Off page seo. I mean the most important ones.
Thanks
Abie
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In addition to the Beginner's Guide to SEO, I'd also suggest reading through the Beginner's Guide to Link Building. Especially if you're looking for information on off-site.
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Yes, definitely read the beginners guide.
Okay, this is just off the top of my head about issues other than on-page content. Consider in whatever order:
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Original choice of competitive niche. If it's too tough to compete or is so nichey there is no search traffic, you can't win no matter what you do.
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Link profile https://mza.seotoolninja.com/researchtools/ose/ Is the content good enough or are you in some other way able to promote quality links to your site?
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Site architecture. How far from the homepage is any given page? Try for two pages or less.
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Site speed (hosting + code) https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/
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Mobile friendliness https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
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Google Search Console fixes/improvements (errors, indexability, html improvements, etc) https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
If you have a site that is targeted to a niche that you can/should compete in (and where there is traffic), with a good link profile, constructed properly, loading fast, mobile friendly and not too broken, you ought to succeed to some degree. And then just don't forget the good on-page content!
Best of Luck! ...Mike
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Hi Abie,
I would start with https://mza.seotoolninja.com/beginners-guide-to-seo and take it from there. Good luck!
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