Dirty Blue Widgets

When we are talking about SEO, it’s important not just to know the methods but also to have the right mindset. In fact, I would argue that having the right mindset is more important than knowing methods. While knowing SEO methods could help you rank for some keywords (like Dirty Blue Widgets) in the short term, it’s your mindset that will determine how you will be in the long term. Without the right mindset, you will  lose the motivation when you face difficulties. Without the right mindset, you will lose your life balance.

In the short term, your mindset can also help you determine whether or not a keyword is worth fighting for. Take Dirty Blue Widgets as example. Are you sure that Dirty Blue Widgets is the right keyword to pick? When you have the right mindset, you can see the big picture and that can help you answer the question. The big picture helps you see patterns and the patterns in turn help you see whether or not Dirty Blue Widgets is the right keyword.

Having the right mindset not only helps you thrive in the long term, it also helps you make short-term decisions accurately.

In the previous post, I talked about the importance of building a learning habit. Just having a learning habit is not enough though. To get maximum benefit, you should feed your learning time with the best possible resources. If you use low-quality resources, you won’t achieve your goals as soon as it should be even with a habit to learn is in place. You won’t have the necessary knowledge to get a high rank for Dirty Blue Widgets.

But how can we find good resources? Well, first of all, you should have different kinds of resources. You should subscribe to SEO blogs. You should read SEO books. You should also join good SEO forums. Just find all possible resources to help you rank high for Dirty Blue Widgets. If you have a lot of options to choose from, use your friends’ recommendations to help you choose the best resources. Then, when you use the resources, you will know by yourself whether or not the resources are good enough. If they can’t help you conquer Dirty Blue Widgets, just replace them with something else.

Just like in any other fields, if you want to succeed in SEO (and rank for Dirty Blue Widgets) you should always learn new stuff. Familiarize yourself with new techniques and always be in the know. Since SEO is a dynamic thing, you must always keep yourself updated. It’s your responsibility to do that. Without keep updating yourself, the chance is small that you will rank high for your target keyword (like Dirty Blue Widgets).

To be a good learner, first of all you should have an open mind. Be open to new ideas that you have never thought about before. Even if you are already experienced, be open to things that may seem counterintuitive. Despising new things by feeling that you are already experienced is a good way to stop growing.

So, all in all, be a good learner and get the high rank for Dirty Blue Widgets.

As I wrote before, both on-page and off-page optimizations are important. But often whether you succeed or not (in ranking for Dirty Blue Widgets, for example) is determined not by on-page optimization but by off-page optimization. The reason is that there is a limit of what you can do with on-page optimization. After you optimize your page according to the best practice, there is only a few things left that you can do.

That’s not the case with off-page optimization. There are a lot of off-page optimization you must do if you want to rank for Dirty Blue Widgets. It is where you can truly put your ideas and creativity. Those who win are those who are more creative and more persistent in doing off-page optimization. Those who just do things the traditional way are unlikely to make it for Dirty Blue Widgets. Of course, you must master on-page optimization. But then, off-page optimization is what makes the difference in conquering Dirty Blue Widgets.

In the previous post I wrote about on-page optimization which should be the first optimization you do to rank for keywords such as Dirty Blue Widgets. Here I will discuss about off-page optimization.

While on-page optimization deals with what you do on your own site, off-page optimization deals with what you do outside of your site. So on-page optimization is internal while off-page optimization is external. Off-page optimization is more complicated than on-page optimization because there are many things that are not within your control. With on-page optimization, you can control the position and frequency of the phrase Dirty Blue Widgets, but with off-page optimization you can only control some aspects of it.

So what should we do in off-page optimization? Well, what you need to do can be boiled down to only two words: link building. Link building is the essence of off-page optimization. So what you need to here is getting links to your Dirty Blue Widgets site. But of course, not all links are equal. There are some links that are more valuable than others. This is where it becomes interesting (and complicated): you need to get not just links but the right kind of links.

There are a lot more to say on this optimization but I will stop now and let you enjoy your visit here on Dirty Blue Widgets.

When talking about SEO, there are two kinds of optimization you should do. The first one is on-page optimization and the second one is off-page optimization.You need to do both when you want to rank for a keyword (such as Dirty Blue Widgets). Between the two, on-page optimization should be the first one you do because it’s easier and everything about it is under your control.

So what is on-page optimization? It’s optimization that is done on your web site to make it more SEO-friendly. In other words you can say that it’s internal optimization because it optimizes your own “house” before going outside. There are several things you can for on-page optimization:

• Put the keyword on the title of the page. When you look at your browser’s title bar, you will see that the keyword Dirty Blue Widgets is there.
• Put the keyword inside <h1> tag. The <h1> tag is used for the main heading of your page. Putting the keyword inside <h1> tags informs search engines crawlers that’s your page is mainly about the keyword. I also put Dirty Blue Widgets inside <h1> tag here (fortunately, Wordpress already handles this automatically).
• Mention the keywords several times within the page. You need to mention the keyword (like Dirty Blue Widgets) here and there on your page. You shouldn’t do it excessively since that will be considered spamming, but you need enough mentions of the keyword to convince the crawlers that your page is indeed about the keyword.

While there are other things you can for on-page optimization, these are some basic ones you must do.

If you want to succeed on the Internet then it’s important to understand search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is very important which is why we have this competition on Dirty Blue Widgets. But why is SEO important? Because to succeed on the Internet you need traffic and SEO is a good way to get traffic. It’s true that you can also have traffic in other ways such as through pay per click (PPC) campaigns, but there is an important drawback in PPC: it costs you money. You need to be highly skillful to have a successful PPC campaign and even then you still need a pretty big amount of money if you want to get results. SEO, on the other hand, could give free traffic. Whether you want to get traffic for Dirty Blue Widgets or any other term, SEO can help you get continuous traffic without any ongoing fee on your part (other than your hosting and domain fees).

What is SEO? Well, basically SEO is techniques you can use to get high ranking for your target keyword (like Dirty Blue Widgets on this blog’s case). You want to get high ranking so that when people search for that keyword they will see your site on the search results and hopefully click it to go to your site. Once people go to your site, you can then monetize your site in many ways. Of course, this is easier said than done. It takes a lot of learning and persistence to master SEO.

Dirty Blue Widgets is a blog I create as part of an SEO competition. The goal of the competition is to rank as high as possible on Google for the term Dirty Blue Widgets. This is a competition for The Affiliate Academy members and I’m excited with this competition. More than anything else, this competition allows me to learn about SEO in a fun way.

But then how should I write this blog? Dirty Blue Widgets is not a common term that you use in your daily conversation. It’s an obscure term that is never used in normal conversation. So instead of just talking about an imaginative widgets, I think I will make this blog as an Internet marketing blog with SEO specialization. Of course, I will often use the term Dirty Blue Widgets since that’s the goal of this blog, but I hope this blog can also provide some value at the same time.