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How I Learned Search Engine Optimization(SEO)?

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I've been active for this gaming blog for about 7 months now. I'm really a newbie in this online venture but i discovered a lot of things that helped me in order for this blog to grow. One of the best things that i learned about blogging is Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

How I Learned Search Engine Optimization(SEO)?

Actually, i've created this blog last February 2009. During that time, i did not know what to do next after i created the blog. I simply published some articles that pertain to my daily activities - my hobbies, what i did in school, etc. I was really eager to see my blog in search engine results page(SERP) but i was frustrated because for almost 6 months of posting articles, my blog is still not visible in search engine. The name of this blog that time was WILL OF THE WIND. I don't have direction for this blog. I installed Google Adsense for my blog because i heard that i can earn money if someone clicks on the ads. But how can i earn the promised money if nobody sees my blog?

The blog became dead sometime in August. No more post was published and i never visited my own blog.

On the last week of October, i attended a blogging seminar which gave my blog another chance to live - a breathe of life. From that seminar, i learned more about blogging and the fact that blogging is an alternative livelihood source. The resource speakers of the said blogging seminar were: Alma Cafe and Cool Buster. Alma Cafe is the author of the blog Reach Beyond Your Limits while Cool Buster is the man behind the success of Coolbuster.net .

Due to limited time, Search Engine Optimization(SEO) for a blog was not fully discussed. The things related to SEO that were introduced are: making quality contents and submitting your blog to blog directories and social bookmarking website. For a newbie blogger with a newly established blog, joining Twitter and Facebook were not enough.

My Model Blogs
The blog which serves as my inspiration in terms of Search Engine Optimization is Coolbuster.net. I always visit this blog so that i can gain insights on what i'm going to do with my blog. I checked almost every links available from Coolbuster.net. The question that i'm asking while browsing through the blog is: How this blog generated a lot of traffic? Then a link caught my attention - the SEO link. Because of the mind awakening feature of the link, i started searching Google for more information about Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short.

Coolbuster noticed that i became active with my blog so he suggested a link to get a search engine optimized template. Without hesitation, i downloaded one and started a make over for my blog. Out of my curiosity, i visited other blogs which are on the top of blog listing directory like TopBlogs. From the list of high-traffic blogs, i stumbled to SeLaplana.com and Macuha.com. From those blogs, i learned more about Search Engine Optimization(SEO) - onsite and offsite. I also learned about "keyword hacking" and more stuffs on how to make money online.

Not satisfied, i search more about SEO and make money online. I then stumbled to a famous blog - John Chow dot com. This blog is really making money online and the author shares his secret on how to do things right on the following topics: Search Engine Optimization, How to Increase Pagerank, and how to do affiliate marketing.

Conclusion
Learning how to blog and how to do it right is just a keyboard away. Being curious pays more in terms of learning new things like Search Engine Optimisation(SEO). Many things have been unearthed regarding this topic and many more are waiting to be unraveled by your curious mind and with the help of Google. Blogging then requires patience and persistence aside from being curious. If you really determined to become successful in your blogging venture, your free tool to success is using Google properly.

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Comments

  1. Its good to be post this kind of post which help people to know more on seo process and how can they improvise their business on online marketing.

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  2. what a nice story about search engine optimization. This post encourage me to continue my blogging journey. Like what you've mentioned, my blog existed for half a year now but it is not yet visible in search engine. The tips you shared here are really for free!

    Thanks dude. I already subscribed to your blog to receive more updates about SEO or Search Engine Optimisation.

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  3. I loved reading your blog and couldn't stop commenting.
    SEO helps in making quality content and they improvise the business online.

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  4. This article tells how to learn seo and earn money from seo

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  5. Learn SEO is easy but implement it in your field and skill is really hard.
    It is different from person to person.

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  6. I've learned SEO through my first job. I am a new graduate and i found a company who does this kind of business and they help me learning it and its really fun. SEO is not something you can learn over night. You can learn the basic then learn on your own as changes on the internet happened over night.

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  7. SEO is indeed fun and sometimes frustrating when your targeted keyword or keywords did not rank well in SERP.

    I must admit that my knowledge in SEO is just limited but i'm an open-minded person at the same time curious. I can learn things like other persons' way of learning and i have my own style of learning too.

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  8. great story... learning SEO takes time dedication... Great information here dude...

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  9. SEO when you work on it you would know the entire process.. so read the point and do the same process..

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  10. SEO is a hectic task but interesting one. Now a days, there are a lot of SEO pros in the internet. I learned it from digital point.

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  11. Search engine optimization also referred as SEO in the IT industry is basically the science of making your website important to the search engines in order to rank highly in their search results for a strategically defined set of keywords. Search Engine Optimization is the only key to online success in a scenario where competition is rising high. Online businesses have benefited a great deal through competent and efficient search engine optimization solutions.

    vitton

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  12. Blogging and SEO is a great tandem in earning money online. Without quality blog post and some link building efforts, your blog site may not give you much income.

    White Label SEO

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  13. SEO strategies varies every year. The old link building metrics that we used before doesn't seem to work today so what we need to do is to be updated on whatever new techniques that comes.

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  14. @Web design perth: Thanks for additional update regarding SEO.

    @Rainier: You're right! Quality Content + SEO = Traffic = Money.

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