SEO for beginners : The results

In our SEO for beginners series I concentrated on how to perform better in search engines. I took a live example of my site www.ghuj.com and explained the complete process. Now it is time to review what I have done. I concentrated only on two main keywords related to my niche i.e. gimp tutorial and gimp tutorials. Even though both the keywords means the same they are different in eyes of a search engine specially Google.

When we started the optimization we found out that we were seriously lacking in these keywords. After following those steps I can see my rankings improving. Currently for the keyword “gimp tutorial” I am ranking 8^th in Google and for the keyword “gimp tutorials” I am ranking 11^th rank. My ultimate goal is to teach in the top 5 for these keywords, but again as I told with search engine lots of patience is required so I am just waiting.

What did I do to come into the first page. Since my niche is gimp tutorials, the best thing to do for me was to contact the gimp.org webmaster and ask him for an link inclusion. It does require some luck here as getting linked by those websites are not easy. But considering the quality and the service to them they gave a link back. This was a big boost to my SEO campaign form ghuj. I have also contacted other webmasters of other similar websites to link back to me. Just waiting for there reply, if they do. I also did a directory submission service for my site ghuj.com, submitted my site to over 1000 directories. It will take some time for Google to index those pages. I am excited for the next Google Page rank update, I am expecting at least a pr 5 or may be a 6, anything above that would be great.

What is important to consider in this post is:

• Ask famous/successful websites in your niche to link back to you.
• Submit your website to directories. It is very important to do it in properly i.e. under right category etc. ( You can contact me for this at info (@) idigitalcore.com)
• Have patience, search engines take time to update itself as it has to update millions and zillions of website, so you are in queue.

What’s next ?

It is time to take next step in to search engine optimization. It is a well known fact that Google loves blogs. So now I am considering maintaining a blog at ghuj.com where I will regularly post latest happening in GIMP. This will help me generate new pages and keep my site active. Once the website start generating some traffic I may consider starting a forum. Untill then happy optimization.