SEO Doesn't Seem Nearly As Hard When You Have The Right Tools

Stupid Easy SEO

Search Engine Optimization or SEO, it's like the Holy Grail of making money online. Everything in regards to making money online comes down to driving traffic. That holds true whether your an affiliate marketer, a blogger, a content creator on Youtube, or if you're running an ecommerce shop. Everything revolves around traffic. Traffic and having an audience is what's going to make you money.

Smart SERP Dashboard Showing My Blogs SEO Performance

Non Website/Google SEO

When most of us think of SEO we think of ranking websites in Google. What many of us don't think about is that Google is only one search engine.

What many people don't think about as being search engines are sites like Youtube, eBay, Amazon, Fiverr, and other online sales platforms and video sites.

Many people don't realize that Youtube is a search engine. Not only that, it's the second largest search engine in the world behind Google. Many of us just think about Youtube as a video playing site, but in reality it's a search engine, and just as you can rank keywords and terms on Google, you can do the same on Youtube. Furthermore, Youtube, in my opinion, is probably one of the easiest ways to get something ranked in Google as well.

eBay and Amazon are also search engines. The type of keywords you put in your items titles and descriptions plays a huge role in where your items rank on those sites.

Terapeak, and Jungle Scout at the end of the day in addition to being analytics programs are also SEO tools.

I've always struggled with Google SEO and website SEO, however I'm really strong in Youtube SEO and even eBay and Amazon SEO.

Website SEO

So I've always found SEO for websites to be extremely challenging. I've found it difficult, and I guess to some extend I've never even truly known exactly how to find out how I'm currently ranking, let alone how to improve how I'm ranking. That is until recently.

In the past I've tried various SEO programs such as Moz and others. I've always found the tools to either be way too complicated to use, or I've found that they don't give me the data I want.

Most SEO tools require you to know what keywords your trying to rank for, and what keywords your currently ranking for in order to pull reports. I recently however found SmartSERP.

The tool is extremely easy to setup, no plugging in code to your site templates, no authorizing anything on Google Webmaster, it's literally as simple as typing in whatever domains you want to check and Smart SERP will tell you all the keywords your ranking for, it will tell you your rank ie 5 means my post is the 5th result on first page of Google.

This tool will autodiscover keywords your ranking for, no need for you to think of all the keywords and manually plug them in. Then in addition to just showing your current rank it will also show you the number of monthly searches for that term. If your ranking number five for a specific keyword you would often want to try to improve that ranking to number one. That said if the term your ranking number five for only has 30 monthly searches, well then it's probably not worth you spending the time to rank a term so few people search for.

On the other hand maybe another term your ranking 96 for, however that term has 13,000 monthly searches. Well in that case it probably is worth trying to increase the ranking of that term to at least top 15 or so, that way you can be on the first page of Google. If you can make that happen you will see a huge uptick in traffic.

As I said, I've always struggled with SEO and after downloading a free trial to this Smart SERP tool the other day it's almost as if it all makes sense to me.

In terms of how to improve ranking for a specific keyword you learn about by using this tool. You can do it a number of ways. One way would be to go back and edit that post. Try to use the exact keyword match your ranking for a few more times in the post. Try to put that term in the Title, try to put that term in an H1 tag, and try to use that term in the first 150 words of your article or post.

You can also improve this ranking by linking to this post either from other sites and blogs you run, or do another post with a similar keyword, and find a way to reference that post your trying to improve with an internal link within your site linking to that post.

One last strategy would be to scour the internet for articles and blogs written about that topic and find a way to leave a comment and drop a link to your article.

I just started using this Smart SERP about two days ago. I spent most of my day yesterday going through trying to improve search engine rankings that are strong but could be stronger. I'm very excited about my SEO feature now that I have this tool at my disposal.