20 Hard Core SEO Tips

1. Take your most popular article and write a sequel to it every year.
2. Launch 3 blogs on their own domains. Don’t build any links for them. Don’t promote them in any way. Use a different blog application for each one.
3. Pick your 3 favorite SEO bloggers. On their next three articles find something to disagree with and ONLY disagree with them in their comments.
4. Find an SEO forum you have never visited before and look at the questions and answers for the past six months without registering or commenting.
5. Pick 20 social media sites that use “rel=’nofollow’” and create content for them that draws traffic without interlinking them.
6. Stop bookmarking Web sites for a month. Delete your existing bookmarks (saving them to a file for later reimporting is okay).
7. Pick any competitive Web site you just beat in the SERPs and build links for it until it outranks your site.
8. Only use Google’s link query operator for a month when you do link research.
9. Pick a random homebody blog about any topic you have no interest in. Spend a month commenting on that blog site about every article. Write positive, supportive, in-depth comments.
10. Find three scraper blogs that accept comments without moderation. Go to town for a month.
11. Remove five pages of content from your site every week. Never restore them.
12. Find 10 random, unknown Web sites you have nothing to do with. Track their Google Toolbar PageRank for 12 months in a spreadsheet.
13. Pick any one topic and write a 200-word sentence about that topic which makes sense and does not induce insomnia or dizziness. Do this for 2 more topics.
14. Get a video camera and record yourself talking about SEO. Wait 1 week and play back the video. Do this until you know it’s better than any Matt Cutts video you’ve ever watched.
15. Write a 10-paragraph essay about any popular well-optimized query like “car rentals”, “cheap hotels”, etc. Invert the paragraphs. Now optimize the copy for the keyword and publish it.
16. Build and promote 10 Web sites with 5-10 pages each on them. The sites must be about real topics, offering real information, and carry no ads. Add a Links page to each that only links to .GOV or .EDU or real news Web sites. Put a contact form on each site that says, “Would you like a link? Send me a request.”
17. Choose your favorite SEO Web site. Print out every page on it or until you run out of paper.
18. Sign up for 10 ebooks, seminars, tutorials, etc. that promise to teach you the secrets of Web marketing success.
19. Find an old free-for-all links script. Install it on your site in such a way that only good sites are linked to.
20. Write a proposal to the U.S. government for optimizing the Library of Congress, the White House, and the Congressional Web sites.