My first revelation came after reading the information on what makes a good new, intermediate, journeyman, and master SEO….so how did I stack up? Definitely intermediate but since my primary business website is #2 in a competitive query space searched upon 248 times daily I guess I’m gettin the job done.

Here’s my two key points on what an advanced SEO should experience.

#1 If you have regularly been experimenting, evaluating, and adjusting not because you read it in this blog, but because you have reverse engineered thousands of websites over the last couple of years on sites you’re competing with to see what the heck got them superior SERP results….and you implemented the good stuff (white hat), and it worked marvelously then you’re absolutely on your way up to advanced. (I’m still not sure on what makes a Master).

#2 If you’ve been reading the archives on this blog, and you find about five or six pages where you were ALREADY doing what is written about, and it works wonderfuly, and you have never seen this technique or content on any other blog, then you know you’re on the right track and have good instincts as an SEO.

(Two of the most powerful things I’ve been using that works like a charm in advancing sites, pages and rankings are “internal linking” and “outbound linking to authority pages” (not competing pages but authority pages like government or industry associations this helps for reputation).

Love this blog,
Barbara

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