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[stavros]

Can you very quickly summarize the basics here? How do you find which keywords to target, how do you include them in your content, what's good SEO hygiene, what wordcount do you need, etc?

Basically, I'm not really aware of how you do SEO marketing, and would like to learn.

[alixanderwang → stavros]

I basically just read this to learn: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/

and watch patio11's talks on microconf.

I don't feel like qualified enough to give advice (also these are short term results, they say SEO takes ~6 months to yield results), so you should refer to his stuff.

[stavros → alixanderwang]

Good enough, thanks!

[threeseed → stavros]

Would recommend the Ahrefs videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWquNQV8Y0_defMKnGKrFOQ

Obviously they will push their product but it is very good and popular within the SEO space.

My suggestion is just to write good content that strengthens your brand and can be shared across multiple channels e.g. SEO, WhitePaper, Linkedin etc.

[stavros → threeseed]

That's very helpful, thank you!

[godzillabrennus → stavros]

When you want to master the art you can follow the Northcutt guide: https://northcutt.com/seo-checklist/

[numlock86 → stavros]

> Can you very quickly summarize the basics here?

Once you found out, make a post with the title "10 keywords to get you up in SEO and how to use them". That's basically how the meta of SEO marketing works these days. Errr, I meant "this guy uses one simple trick and SEO marketers hate him [read more]" ...