SEO is an ugly topic. Lots of hearsay floating around with little evidence based opinion. Many assumptions, rarely facts that you can trust. It’s not my intention to tell you how to do SEO, no no, like they say, there are many ways to skin a cat! This is simply my findings over the past five years.

First of all we’re going to simplify what you’re doing with your website. Set one goal, one page must be more important than every other page. Pick three keyword phrases in your industry, those are your first three goals. Then develop your outreach strategy (how other websites will link back to your websites). Determine what you’ll update your website will ongoing forever and ever amen, and you got yourself a perfect little search engine optimization strategy.

• Set one main goal
• Pick three main phrases you want to come up for in Google search
• Why will people want to link to your website?
• Update your website weekly
• Measure relentlessly 

If it isn’t as easy as described above than come along for the ride, you aren’t alone!

First, you don’t need traditional SEO if you are;

• A major corporation, simply changing how your website is structured will do wonders!
• If you have an amazing social media presence (e’hem, Wheel House, The Riders, Hard Pressed do NOT need SEO help)
• If you publish content (stories, photos, videos) weekly to your website you most likely have no use for SEO

For everyone else here are a few starting points to give you enough information to piss off your I.T. manager at the office.

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