Monday, July 21, 2008

SEO Industry Standards and SEO Best Practices

There is no single officially recognized all-encompassing SEO Industry Standards body sanctioning the Search Engine Optimization profession. I am fully familiar with the top SEO blogs and true SEO authorities and experts in the field. You've got to know who to listen to, pay attention to, and what to ignore. For SEO standards there exists educational SEO courses and certifications, achievement certificates for completion, classes & training, e-books, and online tests etc. SEO is both a science and an art and therefore there is no single exact answer, and if there was, nobody would share it with you because it would be too valuable to share freely and give away.

Evaluating Your Search Engineer

The true test of SEO expertise is what have you achieved personally and consistently in the online community, what can you do for me, and are you capable of all that is required? If more business and website owners knew what is truly achievable online through high-rankings achieved with SEO Best Practices they would invest heavily into this area and deploy considerable resources into their online assets and web properties. It is our responsibility as professionals to educate clients on what’s possible to realistically achieve through SEO (within their budget constraints)and then perform ethical wonders on their websites given the time and budget constraints.

Business owners should acknowledge that the websites ahead of them in the Search Engine Results Pages are there for a reason - and not by accident -and that reason is because they've invested in SEO. The upside to this is the fact that there is no reason why a business owner can't compete (or WIN) online successfully by making wise informed choices for their SEO personnel and services.

To sum up SEO Best Practices, it's knowing what to do, and what not to do, as well as knowing when to start using, and stop using a particular technique or method. It's also never running out of legitimate ways and steps to move a campaign forward. Add patience! The best example of what not to do is generate too much repetition and high volume, which are the common elements identified as Spam – know what spam is, and what it isn't, in order to avoid harming a site's chances. Build a diversified link profile and understand what the components are for search visibility. Keep your website progress consistent over time doing what is right....which comes down to better content, more unique and original content, and authoritative link development through on-site and off-site link building..

By using SEO Best Practices you keep in the good graces of the major search engines such as Google, MSN Live, Yahoo, and Ask. Your online assets grow in value over time.

Over the years I have closely followed recognized experts in the field of SEO such as Dan Thies, Danny Sullivan, Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall at SEOBook, Rand Fishkin at SEOMoz et al, Link Building Expert Eric Ward. Most of my personal achievement is due to studying, analyzing, practicing, applying, and reverse-engineering top-performing websites in all categories to identify best practice common elements present.

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