So, who else uses Wordpress? Don’t you just love how efficient you can be with it and how SEO friendly you can make it?!?

If you don’t use Wordpress, what are you using to build you SEO Competition website? Spill the beans, comment below!

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Also added Google Analytics (noticing traffic already *waves to competition*) And also verified my website with Google Webmaster Tools, including the submission of an XML Sitemap. Should also verify with Bing & Yahoo too as both show some other, quite interesting data, but at a later date eh!

Create a blog comment, or two and voila, first inbound links = helps website to be found by search engines.

So, questions… Google Analytics, do you use it or not? If not, why not? I’m expecting some people to say NO here, so go on, spill the beans. Sceptical about how G uses your data such as bounce rates, keywords used to enter site… not only from Google, but other search engines too? Yeah… I worry ’bout that too!

Oh and as a sidenote. If you know someone who has started a website recently and they are a bit of a analytics/Google newb, but you know they will love to look at their Google Analytics on a daily basis, I always find it fun to do some of these search parameters;

site:newbswebsite.com -rubbish website

“site:” means Google will only bring back results from the domain you type in after this term.

The ‘-’ sign means, ’search this site, not including these words’… which is important, because the newb probably doesn’t realise the’-’ sign means ‘not including the keyword’ so they see it as someone has come to their website with that keyword! Oh… and ofcourse, remember to click on it, duh!

Other things you can do…

… no wait, I shall come to this at a later date. I bet all who are in this contest right now are seeing it though. :]

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So, what does stage 1 consist of?

Well, this one is a bit different to usual website creation/SEO project as the keyword research cannot really be done as OES TSETNOC isn’t a real word and up to now, no search volume, no related keywords. So ermm yeah, toughy. I mean, sure, people rant on about “you need links” blah, blah, blah, then the other side of the coin, you get the “content is king” crew. Well I’m piggy in the middle! Let me explain…

The link building school of thought; once upon a time, you could have a brand spanking new website with little to NO content on it, but by getting large amounts of links with the selected keywords as anchor text, you could rank and easily. But what’s the point in ranking for something if your content is crap? Either way, the pesky lil SEO spammers still find good revenue from persuing a 99% link building SEO strategy, so let’s leave them to it.

The content is king school of thought; Firstly, I AGREE, content is king and for so many reasons. But this content needs to be, where possible – totally different to what is already on the web, interesting, thought provoking and most importantly of all, providing the searcher with the content they required from search for keyword “X”.

HOWEVER, sure… you have people like MASHABLE or TECHCRUNCH where they tick all of the above boxes, THUS THEY GENERATE ORGANIC INBOUND LINKS. But what about if you have a website, that serves its purpose and with new content that isn’t copied from anyone else in any shape or form, but the subject/topic matter isn’t exactly ‘amazing link bait’, thus not generating organic links.

… and that, ladies and gentlemen sums me up for why I sit in the middle of the ‘content is king’ VS ‘links rule all!’ – one side of the SEO coin cannot survive without the other… or… well, it CAN, but your full SEO potential (which I know I keep banging on about) just will not be met.

So I say to this to the ‘Links rule all’ people; Nice, you’ve upt your link popularity status, now ease off on the link building activities (take it from being promary focus) and concertrate on creating X amount of articles per week, for the next month – then come back here and tell me to my face that you haven’t seen a positive impact, because I won’t believe you!

And to the ‘content is king crowd’, congratulations firstly, you are probably a non-SEO-Cowboy, but hey, why not get in a routine of putting a side X amount of time per week to just sit down and focus on building links? Again, come back in a month and tell me it hasn’t worked. Or more to the point, say thanks!

… oh wow, just realised I had a major digression there!

So, what was day 1 like for me with this site?

- Purchased domain name

- Mapped out website structure

- Delved in to my trusty selection of Wordpress plugins (I have some beautiful plugins! – I shall share in a post in the future)

- Type some content up (pages) and think  of ideas on what these pages can be about! OES TSETNOC, possibly? Haha!

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