Best resources for SEO?

I really liked Ahref's Blogging for business course, which is now free!

There have been a lot of good suggestions here so far. Great resources of where to learn.

Here's some practical advice you can START with:

1. Every page needs a strong purpose. It needs to solve a problem, answer a question, or move your customer further along in their journey. Avoid frivolous pages at all costs.

2. If you create a page that you don't intend to rank in search (ie. your "thank you" pages, post-purchase pages, checkout pages, etc.) make sure you're marking them noIndex so that Google doesn't try to index and rank them. These will always be "low quality" pages that hurt your overall site ranking, so you want to make sure you tell Google that they should be ignored.

3. If you plan on writing blog posts, make sure they're going to be relevant for a few years. Be extensive in your research for blog posts, make them hugely valuable, and make sure they are answering a question or solving a problem that people are actively looking for.

Ultimately SEO is (mostly) about content and cleanliness. Keep your content useful and your website structure tidy.

I think there are 2 main things for SEO:

• Backlinks. They're hard, but when you get them right, they're supposed to work wonders.
• Find content you are capable of ranking high for. Usually requires expensive tools, or a lot of digging.

But I'm no SEO expert. Moz has a huge beginners guide (as well as tons of other free articles):

https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

My advice besides structured learning would be to join some Facebook groups. You can learn a lot passively from seeing people ask questions and get answers -- just realize that a lot of people do give bad (or outdated) advice, but at least in a FB group you can see the discussion and resulting consensus. One such well known group is SEO Signals Lab.

EDIT: Also note that a lot of information you'll get in these courses / openly available resources can vary a fair amount from what people will experience will tell you in terms of "what actually works". Don't blindly believe whatever Google says ;)

Good luck!

check out neilpatel.com 😄

I recently found two interesting tools on IndieHackers that I started using for my website/blog:

1. INK - a really nice text editor with many integrated SEO features that analyzes your text and gives you suggestions what to improve.
2. Soefy - a tool that analyzes your website for common SEO problems, like broken links, missing alt on images etc. If you mention that you are an indie hacker you will get a nice offer :)

might help you https://9elements.com/seo-cheat-sheet/

All great suggestions.

To add to those, my team and me have covered many SEO topics here: https://www.contentkingapp.com/academy/

I also study technical SEO and read many different resources from several sources that I trust. From the last interesting articles I read, there was an article on how to handle 301, 404, 503 and other HTTP numbers https://seranking.com/blog/301-404-503-scary-numbers-treat/ . It is quite rare for me to come across high-quality articles that are understandable for beginners and most of them I find on the blog https://seranking.com/blog/, I recommend that you take a look too, I hope you will find answers to your questions there.

I can help you bro for free asap! Just let me know the niche and we get started

I'm mod @ BigSEO on reddit. A little while ago someone posted this list of SEO blogs which is pretty useful if you want to learn/get a feel for what is going on with SEO currently https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/bpaaqr/37_blogs_for_seo_news_and_guides_recommendations/
One good resource for beginners on my site is this SEO glossary I put together, 150 SEO terms explained https://www.searchcandy.uk/seo/seo-glossary/

What do you know about SEO so far?

I have learned a lot from reading
https://sparktoro.com/trending
every day.
It is an aggregation of what SEOs and web marketers are talking about

First, you have to find a niche that isn't competitive. Then, make a content plan for your blog that is SEO optimized, I use ahrefs.

If you're in the SaaS game we cover case studies of how the best are driving growth with SEO, they can be found here: https://saasmarketer.io/category/seo :)

75 Actionable SEO Tips by Ahrefs https://ahrefs.com/blog/seo-tips/

A good starting point is the 32 pages guide made by google: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

Everyone pretty much mentioned all of the main resources you need to look out for and I don't think you need anything more - you don't want to get overloaded with information 🙂

However, I will plug my Twitter here as it makes sense. Currently, I have a goal to post 100 SEO tips every single day (already have 11 of them tweeted). These are actionable tips you can start applying right now!

So if you want a more passive way of gathering SEO tips each day - consider checking out my Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/BLeonavicius

A bit of self-promo here on my part so apologies from the start.

I run an SEO blog myself called Fourth P whilst also have a weekly newsletter with various proven techniques and case studies.

The only reason I am self-promoting is that I can see a lot of people confusing SEO with content marketing in the comments here.

Start a blog on your site, target long-tail keywords (lower in competition), and produce lots of quality content on them (minimally 2-3 times a week). This got me over 3,000 organic visitors to my site in the past month. I highly recommend checking out Income School on YouTube if you want to learn more about blogging.

Don't forget to use cently or honey chrome extension as it even saved me 3 bucks on a 9$ domain.

Start with https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo, then jump to Ahref's Blogging for business course.

Good question, I am so clueless when it comes to SEO.