How To Become an SEO Freelancer?

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a way to help a website become popular thus achieve a higher page rank. The responsibility of an SEO is to market the website not design it. By that, an SEO must know how search engines work because 90% of web surfers search the web using search engines like Google.

What does it take to become an SEO freelancer?
An SEO doesn't need to be a graduate in any computer related studies but having IT skills is beneficial. Additionally an SEO must know:

• HTML
• Web Marketing
• Search Engines
• Directory Sites
• Keywords
• Links (reciprocal links, backlinks, etc.)

And if you want to take freelance SEO seriously you might want to learn other skills like web design, web development and other skills related with websites. But for know, a basic knowledge with SEO will do.

What is the goal of an SEO freelancer?

The goal of an SEO freelancer is simple. Web visibility. There are millions of sites being published online. The oldest and the most popular gets to the top and the young and the new starts at the bottom. So how are these websites seen? Through search engines of course. When searching for a particular topic for example, if we want to ask how to be an SEO, we search it in search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. These search engines then produce a list of the most relevant result on your query. The problem is, if the site is just new, it goes down the bottom of search engine results. Most people don't go far beyond page 3 or page 5 of the search engine results. As an SEO, your goal is to make a website appear on the first or within the 5 page of search engine results by making use of keywords, links, and other SEO techniques.

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How Will I Start SEO?
With a lot of competition, application without practice makes one incompetitive. We cannot ask clients to practice SEO on their website, so we have to do it on our own. So, without further ado, here are the tips for beginning SEO.

Learn basic web development
Learn HTML, CSS and build your own website without relying on WYSIWYG editors. This technique makes you become more familiar with the codes used to develop a website.

Apply What You Learn
Try to practice creating your own website by hand-coding it. In that way you will be familiar with HTML tags. Familiarize yourself with the <meta>,<a>,<title> tag as these are the important tags in seo.

Then create a blog and apply what start your own topic. This is the basic of SEO. Content helps a site become popular. But remember that the content must be unique. The more unique your content is, the more search engine friendly it will be.

Websites like Wordpress, Blogger, and Webs will help you create a website.

And that's it! This is just part 1 of SEO. This topic is broad so if you are interested visit: http://www.webconfs.com/seo-tutorial/.

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