SEO for Beginners: Learn to Rank #1 In Google (2024)

SEO for Beginners: Learn to Rank #1 In Google (2024)

Getting into SEO, or Search Engine Optimization means helping your website appear when people use search engines like Google. It’s like creating special signs (keywords) that guide people (users) to your place (website) when they’re searching for something specific.

To begin, creating value-packed SEO content is crucial. Ensuring your page uses words that people often type into Google (on-page optimization with keywords) and that your website loads quickly (site speed) sets a solid base.

Digging deeper, we want to explore SEO strategies that elevate our website. This involves looking for special phrases (long tail keywords) that aren’t too common yet and ensuring our content truly answers what people seek (optimizing for searcher intent).

It’s like if you find a unique way to talk about your product or service that not many use. That’s what we’re doing with these particular phrases or keywords. The concept also applies to various areas, such as SEO marketing, SEO law, SEO tech, or even an SEO career, ensuring your page uniquely answers queries about these topics.

Also, ensuring your website is friendly, with easy-to-read words, and quick to load (optimizing for user experience with easy layouts and scannable content) is vital. Fast site speed and making sure people stick around on your website (low bounce rates) give Google a thumbs up about your website.

When other cool websites mention your website (building authoritative backlinks), it’s like the popular kids are saying your lemonade stand is awesome! This tells Google that your site is important and helps it appear more often when people search for things online.

In the SEO world, tools like Google Ads, Ahrefs, Semrush, and Moz can help your business stand out. They are like extra-helpful tools to put up even more signs directing people to your lemonade stand (your website).

So, in short, focusing on special phrases (long tail keywords), making content that really helps people (intent-based content), creating a friendly website (user experience), and getting mentions from other websites (niche backlinks) are key tips in your SEO adventure.

Doing these will help your website become a spot Google suggests to more people when they search online. This beginner’s guide provides a peek into SEO, which will lead your website to be found more easily in search engines and bring more visitors to your page!

0:00 New to SEO?
0:04 SEO for Beginners
0:26 Getting the SEO Basics Right
1:06 Uncovering SEO Objectives
1:25 Identifying Valuable SEO Resources
1:51 SEO Audit and SEO Analysis
2:17 Keyword Research and Optimization
3:01 Optimizing for Search Intent

For more related videos to help SEO for beginners:
SEO for Beginners: Rank #1 In Google (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkmPjeNKkBQ
Complete SEO Course for Beginners: Learn to Rank #1 in Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsVTqzratPs

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DC Glenn 🎤 Tag Team Back Again with SEO!

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There were no significant updates from Google this week other than completing the October 2023 spam update.

So now you can start your investigations.

Jaume Ros posted on the SEM rush channel How to Build High-Quality Backlinks: 4 Proven SEO Strategies.

Let’s check one out.

A great free tool I use to find Brand mentions is talkwalker.com. Be sure to check that out.

How to Pick a Niche for Your SEO Business by Nathan Goth
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Una5jmC6UPo

Great advice from Nathan, and if you didn’t know, Nathan just released a new book called The SEO Entrepreneur.

He was also a past guest of the show, so be sure to search for him on the channel.

Learn How to Get SEO Resources and Support by Aleyda Solis

When I was at Workday, I created tiger teams in each area of the business to help champion SEO.

For example, I would get a workmate from each team, like the content team, the demand team, and the digital marketing team, and have regular reporting and strategy meetings and do exactly what Aleyda was referring to and show them the impact of what they are doing is increasing business with SEO so they can relay it to other team members and get them excited.

2023 E-E-A-T Google Knowledge Graph Update (codename Killer Whale) by Jason Barnard

Someone who has a beautiful knowledge panel and brand entity is my guest today.

Please ask questions on the topic, and I will address them in the order they are received.

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DC has been in the music industry for 3+ decades and has an obsession with SEO

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He has his own digital marketing company called CLG Investments Inc.

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Nick Swan 🧪SEO Testing in 2023

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Google updated its documentation on Debugging drops in Google Search traffic.

The documentation covers Site-level technical issues, Seasonality, Page-level technical issues, and Reporting glitches.

The link is in the description
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/debugging-search-traffic-drops

How Google Search sees your site’s content

With the release of site names, I feel adding your site name to your meta title is less important.

I recently disagreed with an SEO agency I was working with who insisted we put the pipe site name in the meta title.

I feel the meta title real estate can be used more effectively where you can use your Brand in the meta title rather than a pipe site name

What are your thoughts? Leave a comment in the chat.

How to link back to your money pages from press releases by Randy Rohde
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yGiKJbKoMzc

Press releases are a big part of my SEO ranking process. After the episode with Terry Samuels, I started stacking press releases and have been getting great results.

If you need a discount on high-quality press releases, use code “SEOVIDEOSHOW” at magicpr.com

How to optimize media on Google Discover on Crawling Mondays

If you want your videos to rank on Google, check out my tip in the SEO in 2023 book.

At a high level, SEO optimizes your video scripts. Use POP or CORA
on your video script for your target keyword.

So far, I’ve 100% ranked on page 1 on Google with a YouTube video optimizing my script.

Ninja image at the fold SEO hack by Eric Lancheres.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6p_zIzNMhlk

It’s a great SEO hack, and will definitely test out.

Speaking of tests, that brings me to my favorite part of the show!

Please ask questions on the topic, and I will address them in the order they are received.

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Most of the time he has been working on his businesses and writing articles about SEO

In 2017, he started building his internal tool to help with archiving Google Search Console data, which has ended up becoming SEOTesting.com.

Please welcome the founder of SEOTeseting.com, Nick Swan!

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Search Off the Record ep 63 was published this past week.

In this episode of Search, Martin, John, and Danny help content creators everywhere focus on the value they bring into the digital world.

From changing ranking systems to updated documentation, the Google Search team discusses their holistic approach to SEO, ranking, and more!

.CSV files are now indexable in Google. I added a link to file types indexable by Google in the description
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/indexable-file-types?hl=en

These are all great ways to publish content and get backlinks.

CTA’s for your Buyer’s Journey and User Intent keywords by MOZ

All SEO strategies must map keywords by user intent and buyer’s journey.

If you can hit your ideal customer at every stage, your chances of converting are exceptionally high.

Three Pillars of Technical SEO by Kristina Azarenko

To sum up, her three pillars let Google easily find, crawl, and index the content you want to rank.

Don’t let Google index or crawl the content you do not want to be ranked.

Provide a good website and page experience.

600% Increase Your Google Ranking Without Breaking The Bank by Eric Siu

Be sure to watch the rest of the video; Eric goes over a quick tutorial using ChatGPT for you to get started with programmatic SEO

ZERO Backlink SEO Strategy for Massive Google Traffic by Matt Diggity

I know the last video ranked without backlinks, but we all know it’s a lot easier to rank with backlinks.

This brings me to my favorite part of the show.

Please ask questions on the topic, and I will address them in the order they are received.

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Google posted a new blog titled “An update on site names.”

As a reminder, the best way to indicate a preferred site name to Google is to use WebSite structured data, as explained in our site name documentation.

We’ve updated that documentation to encourage more use of the alternate name property.

Sometimes, a preferred site name isn’t available for use.

For example, our system generally uses a different name for two other global sites.

Providing an alternative name using the alternate name property allows our system to consider other options if your preferred choice isn’t.

Getting the most out of the URL inspection tool by Martin Splitt

If I want to speed up the indexing of my new and updated pages, I use this live feature plus request indexing.

How can an Author establish expertise Without Expertise?

I never thought of using the reviewed schema before, but now I know it’s available, I’ll use it.

Speaking of schema.

Clint Butler shared his webpage that ranks with just schema and no content on SEO This Week.
https://www.youtube.com/live/MDuiuh-IJeI?feature=share&t=3702

I shared the link in the description so you can check out the source of the page to study and implement it yourself

Fountain Hills SEO

SEO: What’s Working RIGHT NOW In 2023 with Brian Dean, let’s check out one strategy

Bottom-of-the-funnel content has always been huge in enterprise SEO, where the sales cycle may be a little longer, and you need to create content from the top, middle, and bottom funnel type content.

That was our last video today, bringing me to my favorite part of the show.

Please ask questions on the topic, and I will address them in the order they are received.

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Google released a new way to report search quality issues with a new user feedback form.

Now, you can report spam, paid links, malicious behavior, low quality, and other search quality issues, all in one improved form.

They also added a bulk submission feature, and you can now submit up to five pages that violate the same policy in one report.

If you want to participate in Narc SEO, you just got a valuable tool to report your spammy or even non-spammy competitors.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/06/reporting-search-quality-issues?hl=en

Here is a Helpful SEO Tip Using Google Keyword Planner by Seaside PPC

Using Grouped View to Find Content Ideas is something new to me, and I will use it in the future to cluster keywords and get new content ideas.

How to understand language models and semantic connections within them by Koray Kuber
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Koray is on another lever when it comes to semantic SEO.

Check out his episode of the SEO Video Show for more info.

How to Control Your Online Reputation Through Digital PR by Dennis Consorte on Kalicube

Another use case for digital PR is link building. Letslet’s check out the latest video by the Income School guys.

Do you know where you can get digital PR links? On Vettted!

This brings me to my favorite part of the show.

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Yandex Leak – Top Secret SEO Ranking Factors Exposed

How much easier would SEO be if you knew all the ranking factors of a search engine?

Well, today, you’re going to get an inside look into one of the biggest search engines in the world.

No, it’s not Google. But it’s the fourth biggest search engine, Yandex.

Yandex is a Russian search engine, and a former employee leaked top-secret documents showing over 1,900 ranking factors.

In this video, I’ll reveal this document and show you some really interesting findings (that will likely help your SEO performance on Google as well).

And don’t worry:

You don’t need a comp sci degree or coding experience to understand what I’m about to show you. We’re gonna keep it simple.

Also, I’ve created a secret document that translates and categorizes every leaked ranking factor. So if you want access to geek out, then like this video right now. And once we get to 100 likes on this video, I’ll drop the link in the comments for free (no opt-in required).

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9 Google Ranking Factors (That Actually Matter in 2022)

What are the most important Google ranking factors when trying to drive SEO results?

In this video, I’ll show you 9 of the most critical factors you need to optimize for.

Like this video to show me you’re excited! 🙌

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Tools mentioned:

Surfer: https://www.gotchseo.com/recommends/surfer

SEO Testing: https://www.gotchseo.com/recommends/seo-testing

Semrush: https://www.gotchseo.com/recommends/sem-rush

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5 Things in SEO that Aren’t Important

In this video, you’ll find out which 5 things in SEO that don’t matter and where you should focus your time and efforts instead.

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Additional Marketing Resources

Content Writing for SEO: How to Create Content that Ranks in Google ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BdZ0dUu7VQ

Keyword Research Pt 1: How to Analyze Searcher Intent – 1.2. SEO Course by Ahrefs ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPZ0L2cOw4&list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2vk6rQ4Rta5MhDIRmakFbp6&index=3

Complete SEO Course for Beginners: Learn to Rank #1 in Google ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsVTqzratPs

Keyword Research Tutorials for SEO ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2u5JCtiYWfvnSvAkoPwg5VY

Link Building Tutorials (Step-By-Step) ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m

Technical SEO Tutorials ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2tThwk2t057HdK9hMLKd5k8

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This list of “things that don’t matter in SEO” aren’t exactly SEO myths and they aren’t necessarily bad practices. They’re mostly things that people obsess and worry over when they really don’t matter in terms of improving your Google rankings.

And the reason this occurs is because some blog posts or videos recommend these things as advice when in fact, these are not the things that are going to move the needle in your SEO rankings.

What are these things that don’t matter? They are:

► LSI Keywords
► Achieving a content score in a content optimization tool or getting a green light with Yoast’s WordPress plugin
► Word count
► Exact match domains
► Social signals

You’ll also learn what you should be focusing on in order to improve your SEO.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
1:25 LSI Keywords
2:18 Achieving content score
3:31 Word count
6:05 Exact match domains
7:19 Social signals
8:59 Things to focus instead

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