I am very skeptical about companies that offer to put my site our for link swapping to generate “popularity” for Pinterest search engine SEO purposes. Personally, I feel it is a waste of money and could hurt you. If there are links being exchanged artificially with companies outside of your industry, search engines can punish you for it.

If a local business owner spent ten hours a week or so trying to stay on top of the local SEO news, he or she might be able to stay on page one of organic listings and Google Places. But that would assume that they are spending even more time or money actually implementing the strategies they learn about.

There are so many advantages in having a blog. Aside from being user friendly and uncomplicated, they are mostly top ranked compared to website on particular common searched terms or keywords. And this is solely done by having a blog and does not require the demands of maintaining a full working website. Promoting your blog is done in an expensive manner. Maintenance and making updates for your blog is relatively easier. One does not need to be a computer wizard and have the technical knowledge of having a web page to maintain one. It is like as easy as updating maintaining your social networking profile. Texts and photos are easily uploaded with just a few clicks. In an SEO effort, blogs are very cost effective, would not require much time to maintain and upfront.

Conversion Analysis – Of course, with any business, you are in it to make money. While it is okay and natural to lose money on some of your SEO strategies, it is also important that you do not lose money on a long term basis. You must have a positive Return on Investment, and you must be implementing procedures that will create a positive ROI. Web analytics is a great tool to help you determine which SEO strategies work and which ones do not. Remember that just because something works for someone else, it may not work for you. Vice versa, a strategy that works for you, may not work for someone else. The key here is to test every strategy first and see where it takes you!

Well, after people find your blog post, the next thing they’ll do should be to read it. There is not much sense in having your blog post found through great S.E.O. if the next thing they’ll do is hit the ‘back’ button and skedaddle of to another site or blog.

SEO, Search Engine Optimization (the optimization of a website to rank in the top 3 natural results of search engines) Is really all about one single thing. CONTENT. Ever hear how content is KING? So when you are working on your website always remember that it is the CONTENT that matters most. You could apply each of these Top 10 SEO tips, have crappy content, and all of your SEO work would be worthless. Always make sure you content is great, this will keep Google happy, but also and most importantly your readers/customers.

Now that you are done with the rudiments, you can start reading blogs on SEO; these blogs would not just let you learn SEO, they’ll also give you a chance to discuss with others who do SEO for their blogs and website.