Q&A Spot: Bringing it all Together

Question:

I got to know of this blog only a few months ago. Is there an easy way of guiding me through the whole process rather than having to go back to the 'archive' and 'previous' for all the early lessons?
Susan Marks, Property Consulting Ltd, Grantham

Answer:

I've listed all the lessons below, with hyperlinks, in the correct order for you so you can use this to guide yourself through the process in a logical fashion.

This is where the process to successful SEO is outlined, essentially the stages we will follow to optimise our site:
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/03/search-engine-optimisation-seo-diy.html


Lesson 1 is about auditing, checking on ‘where you are now’ with your important keywords:
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/03/lesson-1-understanding-how-you.html


Lesson 2 is more on auditing – checking whether there are any issues preventing good rankings:
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/05/lesson-2-identifying-roadblocks-to-seo.html


Lessons 3 and 5 are about the all important finding of effective keyphrases (lesson 4 is about ‘pay per click’)
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/06/lesson-3finding-keyphrases-to.html

http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/08/lesson-5-better-keywords-will-bring.html


Lesson 6 is about structuring the TITLE tag – the most important metadata in your site as far as SEO is concerned:
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/09/lesson-6-hot-title-tags-for-no-1.html


Lesson 7 is about structuring your visible content and other important metatags
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/10/lesson-7-optimising-on-page-factors.html


Lessons 8,9 (and part of 10) are about the important process of Link Building
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2005/11/lesson-8develop-backlinks-to-bury.html

http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2006/01/lesson-9-lets-get-linked.html


Lesson 10 covers monitoring, measuring and improving you SEO:
http://janaklin.blogspot.com/2006/03/lesson-10-end-of-road-measure-and.html