{"id":100896,"date":"2010-09-18T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T02:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seo-hacker.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2021-05-11T06:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:30:20","slug":"progress-key-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seo-hacker.com\/progress-key-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress is the Key to SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"progress_arrow_up\"<\/a>Let me tell you a story about how I learned SEO. The first disclaimer is this- I didn\u2019t really intend to learn any of it. See, when you\u2019re fifteen and all your friends care about is to be \u2018in\u2019 at school, learning a topic that involves \u2018algorithms\u2019 and \u2018spiders\u2019 will be the last thing on your mind.<\/p>\n

I learned SEO though because I realized that my passion for blogging requires me to do so. I mean, it\u2019s not fun at all blogging without readers<\/a> right? And when you basically have no online social circle yet, the first thing you rely on is some exposure from search engine traffic.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the world of SEO.<\/p>\n

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A Newbie in SEO?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get too frustrated if you feel like you\u2019re sometimes swallowing Latin every time you read expert SEO blogs. For a newbie, everything can be very, very, overwhelming (I swear on that). My tip? Like everything else, you have to take \u2018baby steps\u2019.<\/p>\n

For me, learning SEO is very much like grappling in the dark. Aside from submitting my url to the search engine directories, I was pretty much clueless. By then, I realized that probably the best way is to follow the tracks. Since I\u2019ve already started by submitting URLs to search engines, it must apply that the next step would be to follow the trail of the search engines.<\/p>\n

This theory led me to Google Webmaster tools<\/a> (I was hyped with this discovery!). I never knew it was possible to monitor your sites especially your indexing via Google itself. Here, I started to encounter the terms they\u2019d usually flash around in SEO tutorials (bots, links, index, meta-tags, crawlers, etc.). The next step is obvious – look out for these terms and figure out how they work!<\/p>\n

Progress: Snowballing Your Knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why is progress the key to learning SEO? Because unlike blogging, or marketing<\/a> for example (where you can just focus on one aspect or technique and then forget the rest), SEO takes a ladder route. You can\u2019t be on top if you haven\u2019t mastered, practiced, and applied all the steps.<\/p>\n

How do you do this? Here\u2019s the secret – follow a proven course, both literally and figuratively. I\u2019ll explain the figuratively<\/em> first.<\/p>\n

Course is synonymous to route, path, way, track or whatever other synonym you can think of. The point is it should follow a direction. There are levels to learning SEO<\/a>, though they might be implicitly known to many. First level, the basics (get to know the terms and the principles). The second level, test and apply. This is your trial and error activity where you really start to familiarize yourself with the process and how the whole thing works.<\/p>\n

The third level is getting your first results and creating\/figuring your own method. SEO practitioners have their own campaign strategies, usually, it\u2019ll boil down to a preference in technique (white hat, black hat, a combination of both etc.). The fourth level, of course, is mastering and constantly improving or updating your knowledge. If you want a fifth level, how about teach SEO to newbies so the flow will now come in full circle \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

As for the literal<\/em> part, this is where I give a little sneaky teaser to you about the thing we\u2019re getting excited about here at SEO-hacker. It\u2019s literally an SEO course<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The beauty in joining a course is that there\u2019s no need to grapple in the dark. One good, well formulated course can already deliver and monitor your progress. There\u2019s no need for you to experience the \u2018grappling in the dark\u2019 that a lot of new practitioners experience. The outline will be more than sufficient, all you need to do is absorb and do your homework (practice!).<\/p>\n

And yes, like what I said, this is a little teaser of what\u2019s to come. You better make sure to stay tuned \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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