allstarit
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So the last 2 months i have created 2 basic wordpress sites for 2 of my clients that i do managed services for. I done alot of self teaching by reading up alot on Wordpress and what plugins to use ect and my webdesign skills are getting better as time goes by lol.
The next phase im working on is SEO to generate more traffic.
I have been reading up heaps on generating local traffic to my clients sites and its starting to work. Being new domains it seems to take longer to get google to crawl the sites. I am trialing this out to some of my clients and if this SEO service works it could be a good source of income.
Here is what im doing for SEO (not necessarily in this order) so far and i hope im on the right track - time will tell i guess
1) Yoast Plugin - Ive read up on SEO plugins and this one seems to be really good and is free.
It tells you things you need to address if your SEO isnt adequete - like keyword not mentioned enough in the description, not mentioned in the H2,H1 titles. It also mentions if you dont have enough words and it also lets you edit your Meta Title and Meta data
2) Creating Google My Business Account - This is important to have as when you google a business it will show local sites box with the map.
3) Adding website to local Citation Directories - not spammy ones but reputable sites and fill in a profile on each site, entering correct category and making sure the NAP (name,address and phone) are the same as Google Account leaving no discrepancies or abbreviations ect (all need to be identical)
4) Backlinks - get some high authority backlinks and create a blog post or something to link back to my site with keyword Anchor text.
5) Anchor Text and internal Links and Keywords- Making sure to use Anchor Text (not too much) and have good internal links so Google crawls the site and can easily get around.
Try not to have keywords stuffing of the same keywords you have on other pages - try to make it specific to this page
6) Social Media Profiles - Setup Google+ Page, Facebook, Twitter, Linked In,Pinterest ect -
Google+ and Youtube link together with your business page and since Google own these i feel these are important to setup and add regular videos- YouTube is second biggest to Google search.
7) SourceFlood - This is a plugin i found from a SEO guy called Alex Becker -been watching a few of his vidoes and basically this plugin allows you to create a {flood} field in Facebook and then enter in a list of suburbs. Then create a template page with all these {flood} fields where you want to mention the suburb name and once you generate the page it then creates the same page for each suburb. Then make your keywords specific for each suburb - eg computer repairs <suburb> or virus removal <suburb>
Thing to avoid here is to not make every page the same as Google may see this as duplicate content - Thats where my next point will hopefully come into play.
8) Youtube Content - Next is the part im upto - ive done all of the above and from what i have read adding youtube videos that link back to your keyword landing page computer repair <suburb>
Basically im testing this by making some videos for my own page and talking about computer repairs i am doing and where i am ect posting some helpful info. Adding these videos onto the actual suburb page will help with avoiding duplicate
9) Sitemap - make sure Yoast is setup to post my Sitemap to Google Webmasters so Google knows which pages to index ect
10) Google Analytics - add analytics codes to Wordpress so i can track the traffic and keywords being used.
I will keep tabs on how my clients tabs are going and post back if the above steps have been a good success or needs more work. I think im on the right track but enjoy doing this sort of work.
Hopefully these tips i have found will be useful for others.
If any SEO gurus are on here please let me know if im missing anything i should be doing that i havent posted here.
The next phase im working on is SEO to generate more traffic.
I have been reading up heaps on generating local traffic to my clients sites and its starting to work. Being new domains it seems to take longer to get google to crawl the sites. I am trialing this out to some of my clients and if this SEO service works it could be a good source of income.
Here is what im doing for SEO (not necessarily in this order) so far and i hope im on the right track - time will tell i guess
1) Yoast Plugin - Ive read up on SEO plugins and this one seems to be really good and is free.
It tells you things you need to address if your SEO isnt adequete - like keyword not mentioned enough in the description, not mentioned in the H2,H1 titles. It also mentions if you dont have enough words and it also lets you edit your Meta Title and Meta data
2) Creating Google My Business Account - This is important to have as when you google a business it will show local sites box with the map.
3) Adding website to local Citation Directories - not spammy ones but reputable sites and fill in a profile on each site, entering correct category and making sure the NAP (name,address and phone) are the same as Google Account leaving no discrepancies or abbreviations ect (all need to be identical)
4) Backlinks - get some high authority backlinks and create a blog post or something to link back to my site with keyword Anchor text.
5) Anchor Text and internal Links and Keywords- Making sure to use Anchor Text (not too much) and have good internal links so Google crawls the site and can easily get around.
Try not to have keywords stuffing of the same keywords you have on other pages - try to make it specific to this page
6) Social Media Profiles - Setup Google+ Page, Facebook, Twitter, Linked In,Pinterest ect -
Google+ and Youtube link together with your business page and since Google own these i feel these are important to setup and add regular videos- YouTube is second biggest to Google search.
7) SourceFlood - This is a plugin i found from a SEO guy called Alex Becker -been watching a few of his vidoes and basically this plugin allows you to create a {flood} field in Facebook and then enter in a list of suburbs. Then create a template page with all these {flood} fields where you want to mention the suburb name and once you generate the page it then creates the same page for each suburb. Then make your keywords specific for each suburb - eg computer repairs <suburb> or virus removal <suburb>
Thing to avoid here is to not make every page the same as Google may see this as duplicate content - Thats where my next point will hopefully come into play.
8) Youtube Content - Next is the part im upto - ive done all of the above and from what i have read adding youtube videos that link back to your keyword landing page computer repair <suburb>
Basically im testing this by making some videos for my own page and talking about computer repairs i am doing and where i am ect posting some helpful info. Adding these videos onto the actual suburb page will help with avoiding duplicate
9) Sitemap - make sure Yoast is setup to post my Sitemap to Google Webmasters so Google knows which pages to index ect
10) Google Analytics - add analytics codes to Wordpress so i can track the traffic and keywords being used.
I will keep tabs on how my clients tabs are going and post back if the above steps have been a good success or needs more work. I think im on the right track but enjoy doing this sort of work.
Hopefully these tips i have found will be useful for others.
If any SEO gurus are on here please let me know if im missing anything i should be doing that i havent posted here.
