{"id":477,"date":"2006-09-26T18:47:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T01:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2007-01-25T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T07:10:13","slug":"blogoff-post-100-beginners-guide-to-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/477\/blogoff-post-100-beginners-guide-to-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #100: Beginners guide to SEO . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/beginners.php\" target=\"_blank\">From SEOmoz.org, a beginners guide to SEO<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is SEO?<\/p>\n<p>SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. Firms that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach. Optimizing a web site for search engines can require looking at so many unique elements that many practitioners of SEO (SEOs) consider themselves to be in the broad field of website optimization (since so many of those elements intertwine).<\/p>\n<p>This guide is designed to describe all areas of SEO &#8211; from discovery of the terms and phrases that will generate traffic, to making a site search engine friendly, to building the links and marketing the unique value of the site\/organization&#8217;s offerings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a &#8220;beginners&#8221; guide, this is a very robust, step-by-step approach to improving your SEO performance.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmark the page. You&#8217;ll be back&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sellsius 101\" rel=\"tag\">sellsius 101<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From SEOmoz.org, a beginners guide to SEO: What is SEO? SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. Firms that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5493,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5493\/basic-seo-how-to-choose-a-domain-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"Basic SEO: How to Choose a Domain Name","author":"Eric Blackwell","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Lately I seem to be getting this question a lot. At BHB Unchained it was asked of me several times. Finally, a good friend asked me today: I am looking getting a site and choosing a domain name and I KNOW I need to get one full of keywords. \"How\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bloodhound SEO&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bloodhound SEO","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/bloodhound-seo\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2398,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2398\/optimization-unchained\/","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":1},"title":"Optimization Unchained!","author":"Eric Blackwell","date":"December 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The words Search Engine Optimization have been taken to mean everything from \"Trickery to get to the top of Google\" (untrue and unfair in my opinion) to \"Giving Google's algo what it wants.\" (true, but incomplete IMO). 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