Photo by creatorsdreamAre you not actively doing these SEO Tasks?
The majority of the SEO tasks help you increase the number of inbound links to your site, building reptuation and helping the engines find you better. Since linkbuilding is the fastest and most reliable way to improve your website rankings, here are some of the most important types of SEO tasks, and how they work:
- Social Profile Tasks –
There are lots of great places on the web that you can create a profile and share information about you, your interests or your website. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn are a few of the valuable Social Media sites that help you build relevant links and increase your online exposure! - Q&A Tasks –
Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers, LinkedIn and a host of other sites are free services where people can ask and answer questions on virtually any subject. When someone asks a question that’s relevant to one of your targeted keywords, sites like social mention will automatically send you a notification and allow you to share your knowledge. This gives you the opportunity to 1) establish yourself an an authority on a given subject and 2) direct people to other helpful resources, like your website (if applicable). - Social Bookmarking Tasks
Social bookmarking allows you to identify pages on the internet that you think are cool (or provide value) and then share them with other people on the web. If you’ve created something worth sharing on your website, the social bookmarking task will prompt you to share it with others! We really like AddThis with it’s built in reporting features. AddThis has a smart sharing tool, one of the largest collection of services, works with over 50 languages is highly customizable, has powerful analytics and is private and secure. - Buzz tasks
When somebody online mentions any of your keywords, you should be jumping on the “social mention” and creates a task to visit the site where your keyword was mentioned. If that site is a blog, a forum or a news article, it’s often possible to comment on the content that triggered the task and leave a link back to your site. Since you are leaving your link on a resource relevant to your keywords, it will also be relevant to your site. These relevant backlinks help boost your website’s authority and rankings in the search engine results pages. We really like ScoialMentions.com which is like Google Alerts but for social media. - Content Generation tasks
Content Generation tasks direct you to resources online where you can add quality content to the web with embedded links that point back to your website. These tasks allow you to establish yourself as an authority within a certain field while simultaneously improving your backlink profile. - Competitive Backlink tasks
Find your top three keyword phrases and find out which websites are your top competitors for those terms. Then, determine where these competing websites are getting their links from, and create tasks for you to procure links from those places too! This helps you discover new linkbuilding opportunities and maintain a competitive edge. SEOmoz has some good toolsets to help you find those links. - Directory submission tasks
Submit your site to a number of online directories, both free and paid. Since some directories are more relevant than others, submit to the ones you like, and pass on the ones you don’t. Directory submissions are simply part of a diversified link building strategy that benefits you in your SERP’s.