Search Engine Optimization (SEO) doesn’t have to be a black art. It’s deceptively simple. Learn the basic and intermediate ways to increase your ranks in Google that the pros use, and you can too.

1. Affiliate Summit West 2010 A Guide To SEO Joshua Ziering Owner, FullSpeedSEO.com

4. Mission Statement: To give you enough knowledge about SEO to: 1) Not get ripped off by snake oil SEO salesmen if you're hiring an outside firm. 2) Make adjustments to your own site with positive ranking results.

5. Who Do I Optimize For? Unless you've got compelling evidence not to optimize for Google, it's best to do what they like to see, and let the others catch on. *June 2009 Nielson

6. If you haven't bought a domain name... Use Google Keyword tool to try to find highly searched versions of your main keyword. Picking A Domain Name https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

7. As a rule of thumb, try to find keywords with more than 8000 global monthly searches under “Exact” match If it's not taken, FixedGearBike.com isn't a bad domain name to have since it receives 22,200 EXACT match searches. Remember, this excludes “long tail” traffic like “Best Evar Fixed Gear Bikecycle”. Picking A Domain Name

8. Picking A Domain Name If you already have a domain name that you're not willing to change, that's alright. It's only one of about 200 ranking factors. Remember sites like, eBay, Amazon, and Zappos all rank for keywords not in their domain.

13. Off Page Optimization Why show Johnny Football and the Homecoming Queen at a conference full of internet nerds?

18. Link Bait Link Bait: Link bait is any media that gets people excited, in any capacity, about the content of that media, and inspires them to link back to it so their discourse on the subject is relevant.

19. Link Bait www.money.co.uk

20. Link Bait

22. Link Bait With creativity, there is no subject or website you can't write creative link bait for. This is the reason your website needs a blog. This is the reason you should probably have a mini net made about your niche.

23. Link Bait Exercises A. The Downfall – Think carefully about your niche, and what would absolutely devastate it. What would take the world as you know it and turn it upside down? I wrote this as an RIAA executive in 1999… “ I’ve seen it. The future. It’s grim for music sales as we know them today. Last week a friend invited me over to his house, he’s an “internets” genius of one sort or another, and he showed me an MT3. It’s music on the computer, and it’s small enough

24. Link Bait Exercises B. The Savant – The idea here is to take a normal person (or child) and make them really good at something related to your niche. For those unaware, a Savant is a person who excels at or is knowledgeable about one specific thing, but generally terrible at everything else.

25. Link Bait Exercises C. The Dream – Simply think of something that you wish existed in your niche, and make it exist. If it doesn’t fake or make it. If it does, brand it and sell it. If it sort of does, change it. If it exists somewhere else, but could apply to you, rebrand that bitch. “ I’d only been able to overclock my Dual Celeron board to 533Mhz, but when I saw my friend Tim nitrogen cooling his car, I knew I’d found my answer. Using his license, we bought 5 liters of compressed liquid nitrogen...

26. Link Bait Exercises D. The Hero – Be the hero. Make the hero. Or Make the hero look like a douche. This is popular no matter what niche. Reddit and The Consumerist often loves these kinds of submissions. Hint. The following is something I wrote about being a hero...

27. Link Bait Exercises “ The girl behind the counter told me ‘I, like, have never heard of a plasma that cheap before. I think the internet lied to you dude.’ I insisted, showing her the newspaper advertisement from her store, and pointing at it. She said, “Well, whatevs, I don’t think it’s here, but I mean, you can totally try looking. Damnit Tanya, FML! Seriously…” She was starting to lose her focus. Feeling an impending sneeze coming on, I found myself with a heavy hand. Perhaps because I was afraid I’d hit her if I lifted up my hand. Whatever the reason, I sneezed on this girl. Not just like a little guy. I blew her away hurricane style. Parts of hair came out of her pony tail I blasted her so bad. I laughed until I noticed that she had her mouth open and was slowly tasting.”

29. Link Building When all else fails...Look where your competition gets their links. Yahoo.com site:TheirDomain.com

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