Comments on: SEO 101 Rules to Follow NOW!

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:45:31 +0000

Something I’ve noticed when it comes to link building is the relevancy of places where one creates backlinks. Directories definitely step into and black and white ground… you either go fairly or you see the black hat come out. Countless of times I’ve been faced with “directory” offers that end up being link farms, which are definitely a no no.

Regardless thank you for this article, I hope we can share ideas on the industry at some point.

Thanks Nick!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:09:13 +0000

Hi Sunny,
Thanks for reading and I am happy to give you some advice regarding online directories.

I personally only recommend submitting a website (new or old) to some of the top directories that might generate targeted visitors to your website, such as: Yahoo! Directory, DMOZ, BOTW, Business.com, Joe Ant, etc. Link building should be balanced with many different relevant sources of links over a period of time. Think of link building as marketing your website and business online and the SEO benefits will come over time.

I hope this helps…

By: sunny

sunny — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:17:15 +0000

Hi Nick,
I was told that link building is the most important for seo from the first day I started seo. Several days ago, I came across an article which said the standards for judging a directory are PR, number of sites listed, number of backlinks it has, and age of the directory.But now I’m reading another article which tell us to submit websites to new directories. I’m so confused! Can you give me any suggestion?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:23:39 +0000

Hi Backlink Booster,
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts…link building is indeed a very important aspect and is at the top of the list for sure!

By: Backlink Booster

Backlink Booster — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:32:53 +0000

Good points!

I would also add link building to the top of the list as this is extremely important in getting traffic to your site (which is the ultimate goal of SEO) either via higher rankings in search results or directly from the links themselves.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:33:29 +0000

Hi Rani,
Thanks for reading and the comment…great analogy for SEO and a tree, I think I might start using that one!

By: Dennis Cook

Dennis Cook — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:36:20 +0000

Good advice Nick. It took a long time for me to learn the hard way that having keywords in the metatags that are not found sufficiently repeated in the actual content will not bring results. We appreciate your nuggets so willingly shared.

By: Rani

Rani — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:35:51 +0000

Thanks a lot Nick. SEO does take a lot of time and consideration on getting it worked out, I like to see it as a tree which needs time to branch out and have stable roots.

By: tricajus

tricajus — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:38:48 +0000

I’ve a suggestion here. Why not create a wallpaper. Place these 5 points into it. Design it as creative as you wish. Be sure to make it the default wallpaper. There you are, the best SEO reminder right in front of you.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:31:32 +0000

Thanks Sally for the Tweet and for reading!

By: textilesinfomediarydotcom

textilesinfomediarydotcom — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:10:34 +0000

Search Engine Optimization activities success strategy varies from client to client, time to time,The aim client have towards the web presence.

By: Sally Dillon

Sally Dillon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:34:20 +0000

I tweeted this! SEO customers need to hear it from other than me that although they might get in the top 5 on Yahoo or Bing the first month for a competitive local search phrase with a new website, it will take more on the order of months for that to happen on Google.

By: Tessa Caguioa

Tessa Caguioa — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:20:13 +0000

Mostly they think they can be on page 1 in a matter of an hour. SEO is not easy. Process maybe easy but there are lot of ways.

By: HHO Generator

HHO Generator — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:11:45 +0000

Thanks Nick;
I have read a lot of your articles but I think this one takes the cake.
I just need to slow down and let the search engines do the rest

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:54:15 +0000

Hi Charlotte,
Thanks for reading and stopping by, this should apply to every type of website owner, marketer or writer producing content…thanks!