Well the SEO school bus has been out looking for new domains, and industries to do some SEO for. I’ve purchased 4 domain names and will be testing various SEO techniques on each to see what has the greatest effect. I’ve tried to pick different industries, but keywords that are similar in competitiveness.

I’ll be looking for a few things when I try this. First What link building strategy works better than the others. I’m going to try various combination’s of link building, so one may only be using article marketing and another may be a combination of article marketing and niche directories. My time frame on this is going to be 3 months, and I want to then reveal what my findings were. I don’t want to be writing in hypotheticals too much, so instead of my examples of organic dog biscuit websites, I’ll actually have sites that I’m trying to make money on.

I will be monetizing through adsense on two of them, and an affiliate on another. I’m hoping that will shed some more light on which one made me the most money. The goal here is to be able to develop a lose set of steps that will take a brand new domain name to first page rankings on the big G.

A little story to share with you.  I have a friend with a website that posts 5 days a week.  I was reading his most recent post, when I wanted to check how many links he had coming into his website (it showed around 2400).  I quickly sent him a text saying, “You have 2400 incoming links for your site”.  He said, “How did you see that?”.  Which brings me to a SEO tool that you should be using.

SEO for Firefox, while a great resource for research, can help you learn SEO as you’re using it.  If you’re not using FireFox this might give you a reason.  I won’t go into to much depth of how this tool works, (there are plenty out there) my suggestion would be to play around with it first.

First thing to look at will be the options of the tool where you will find what kind of info you want to know about a website.  You can set any of the options to automatic, hide, or on-demand.  You may hide one that I may have automatic, and you might ask: “Which ones do you have hidden, automatic or on-demand?”  I don’t want to push my bias onto you, because then you won’t do any research on your own to understand why it’s important.

I’m now in the habit of right clicking on every website and using my “look up this page” function.  I can spend hours looking at where websites are getting their links from, then reading the articles that have been written or directories they have submitted to.  If you can understand why they have the link and how its helping them you will be able to convert this into learning SEO techniques for your site.  We will revisit this tool and touch on different aspects of what the information can do for us.

The SEO School Bus has and will have plenty of ways to learn SEO, but just like school you will have to do some homework: setting SEO goals.  Feel free to e-mail me your goals and I will give you some of my thoughts.