People tell me “I don’t want drive-by traffic” or “I only want traffic from PR4+ sites” but this confuses me. Do you want traffic or not? I assume you do so would you rather have 5 people that visit every day from PR4+ sites or 1000 people who visit from time to time from wherever? I know what I would choose. Traffic is traffic. Every person that sees your site/blog is a new visitor and potential client. Turning any traffic away is stupid and should be avoided if you want to succeed. Also remember that backlinks from high PR sites will increase your PR (although PR is nothing to do with SRPs, it’s merely aesthetic).

SEO is all about time. The more time you put in the better your results will be. That’s it. There is no opinion or argument involved. Do 10 hours SEO per day and you’ll get better results than 1 hour per day. Backlinks, directory listings, social media – all of it is good. Remember, it doesn’t matter how many times you post your link on your Facebook or Twitter account – Google will only count it once. You may reach more people quickly by having lots of friends or “likes” but it will do nothing for your SRP. Also think about who you have as friends on these sites. Are they likely to be potential customers? It’s no use having 1000 “likes” if they are all people you know – Facebook marketing needs to address what a “friend” or a “like” actually is. What I mean is neither “Friends” or “Likes” are recommendations of you or your site. They do not mean you provide good customer service. They do not mean your product is better than the rest. In fact, in most cases, it means nothing.

Saying that, if you want your site to be found in SRP’s then forget the off-site SEO and concentrate on the On-Site SEO. This is what really matters. Place keywords in the title (and domain name if you can), create unique, relevant, keyworded content (but don’t over-use keywords), don’t fill-up page with images/videos, update regularly.

That’s it. Nothing else required. Your site will be found. SEO is for increasing exposure, not creating it. A lot of people think if they don’t do any off-site SEO that their site wont be found and this is simply not true.

The first thing to do is get your domain some Page Authority. See seomoz.com and down load their free tool bar to measure this. The basics are adding some quality back links to your site. Once your domain has some Authority (it will transfer some of that to your blog if it is hosted on your domain) then add some quality links directly to your Blog. Link Building is not as difficult as many think, and it’s just good old fashion PR. There are lot’s (zillions) of companies that will do it for you, I would suggest you do it your self, or be very careful about who you chose. Use a company that can provide strong RECENT references, if you go that route.
If your blog is not on your domain, just do link building to your blog URL. Seriously… you will be amazed how much Google traffic you will pick up after a few months of adding a few good links weekly.

Maybe I’m just too new to the scene at the moment, but it feels like the market has become too saturated for anyone to garner attention feedback unless you have serious readers/connections that have been in place for some time.

That said, I’m off to register at any listings I can find.