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10 Dead Simple SEO Tips for your SaaS that will Kickstart Your Organic Growth

1. Start SEO from Day #1.

Jot down your business's most important keywords.

Use tools like Keywords everywhere, Ubersuggest or Premium tools like Semrush, Ahrefs, Moz for KW Research.

2. Have an XML Sitemap file for your website.

This will help Google bot crawl your website pages more efficiently.

It is usually a best SEO practice & one should not miss this step.

Learn about Sitemaps here

3. Have an awesome Content Marketing Strategy

Google loves quality, in-depth content. The more you publish topically relevant content, the better it is for Google to understand your website.

This is where your keyword research also plays a pivotal role in your SEO process.

4. Best way to transfer maximum SEO effect for free?

Build Internal Links.

Internal Links are basically one page of your site linking to another page.

This helps improve crawlability and is one of the most powerful ways of increasing your SERP Rankings.

5. Learn to Analyze Search Console

This is where the magic happens. This is where you can tap into the goldmine and leverage SEO the most.

Usually, you can find all the terms people are searching for, clicks you get, CTR, positions, etc.

6. Know Search Intent

Search intent is nothing but the reasoning behind the searcher's query.

The best way to analyze search intent is to check the existing Google's Search results & try to circle back with the query.

This is the most important SEO skill today in 2021!

7. Focus on Page Speed

Page speed is an official ranking factor on Google.

If your webpage loads fast enough, it's a signal for Google. Don't sleep on this important technical SEO factor.

To learn more about your page speed use this tool from Google

8. Network with your connections & Write a Guest Post

Benefits? You get a link from a topically relevant site + relevant, quality referral traffic.

This is an easy way to build topically relevant links in your industry.

9. Learn Search Operators

Not only this will help you research content ideas, but also help you with SEO (especially link building)

Ahrefs wrote a great blog post here. I highly recommend reading this.

10. Last but not least, stay patient

SEO is a long-term game. Play slowly and win it.

Products built on long-term SEO scales rapidly if you play the game strategically.

So be patient & you will reap the rewards.

If you want more such threads, follow me on Twitter. I tweet about SaaS, SEO, Side Projects & No-code

If you have any queries, reply below with your comments. I will answer each query.

  1. 1

    Valid points. I appreciate the link to the Ahrefs post with the Google commands, I was looking for this recently.

  2. 1

    Great content and pointers. Thanks for info!!

  3. 1

    As a SEO Analyst, this was very useful to me.. Thanks for sharing this informative post...

  4. 1

    Very informational post. Thank you for sharing.

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