Hi Friends,

I want to learn SEO. Pls guide me how should I start my SEO work. From where can I get basic and advanced information on SEO? How does a SEO maintain his daily work and resources? Pls. help me

- Arun

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Below is a compact, practical system for maintaining SEO records and a lightweight daily/weekly routine you can start using right away. It builds on points raised by , , , , , , and but focuses on record-keeping and measurement so you can tell what works and what doesn’t.

Use a single change log (spreadsheet or simple DB). Record one row per meaningful edit, test or outreach. Capture baseline metrics, the change, the owner, and a follow-up snapshot so you can measure impact. Example CSV header and one sample row:

date,project,page_url,change_type,owner,baseline_organic,baseline_rank,change_summary,expected_impact,post_check_date,post_organic,post_rank,backlinks_delta,notes,ticket_id,experiment_id
2026-02-20,example.com,/pricing,meta_title_update,Arun,1200,18,"shortened title",+1 pos,2026-03-06,1500,14,+2,"A/B variant B","TKT-123","EX-01"

Practical routine and troubleshooting

  • Daily (10–20 min): glance at site-health/errors, recent content publishes, and any big traffic swings. Log any emergency fixes immediately.
  • Weekly: snapshot top 20 pages (traffic/rank), review change log, pick one test to prioritize, update outreach statuses.
  • Monthly: full crawl, backlink audit, content gap and conversion review; export a ranking snapshot for historical comparison.
  • If traffic drops: consult the change log first. Then verify analytics/tracking, check robots/noindex, inspect server logs for 5xx, confirm redirects/canonical tags, and review recent backlink losses or mass content changes. Don’t run multiple experiments on the same landing page at the same time.

Notes and cautions

  • Always capture the pre-change baseline and set an explicit post-check date (2–8 weeks depending on change).
  • Use consistent naming for tickets and experiment IDs.
  • Keep records versioned and accessible to the team; consistency beats complexity.

This system makes it easy to connect actions to outcomes and prevents “who changed what” guessing when results appear.

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So many tips are there and so much hard work has to do...
Then only we will achieve it..
Some tips are:
1.Make your site to look gud and better..
2.Try to sit end user in your site for some time by adding some interesting messages with good desiging..
3.include some flash file to look more good..
4.Follow reciprocal model,means place others link in your site ,then they will place our link in their site.
5.place your site url in blogs and forums and any other like orkut etc..
6.use your keywords as in simple and user friendly english..
7.Place some interesting topics and provide them by newsletters and so on..
8.Register your site address with google maps..
9.Place your images in search engines..
10.Contact search engines to adds your site.
Follow these and do hard work better..

Study the seo book,i have attached...

ALL THE BEST.

ShantI

Hi Shanti,

Thanks for the help. I want to be proficient in seo. Pls. be my friend as I can get lot of help from you.

My email:


- Arun

Open an accounts with , Live.com Webmaster Center and . Study their tutorials from within your accounts, and proceed to submit your site to them. Don't underestimate the benefits to be reaped from them. Also get yourself acquainted with submitting to directories.

Hi Friends,

I want to learn SEO. Pls guide me how should I start my SEO work. From where can I get basic and advanced information on SEO? How does a SEO maintain his daily work and resources? Pls. help me

- Arun

The main factor of SEO industries is keep updating your self. With dail work you need to be update with latest trend technique.

As SEO I am maintain my work as hourly basis. Make time table with respected project importance and give it a enough time.

use Google reader to make your self update with market.

Be member of some niche SEO froum and ask your doubt and give answer there.

I want to learn SEO. Pls guide me how should I start my SEO work.

You know first the basic foundation of seo and you can find it here.

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the best place to get to know about how search engines work and how seo works.. is from the gurus of se themselves.. where is that place... its http://www.searchenginewatch.com
do reply if you happen to find it gr8.. as i did!!

I agree with the above comment. Understand the basics of creating a good SEO website. Create good content and make sure you update with fresh content regularly. If you build it they will come so to say. Short cutting the process in other ways are usually fleeting efforts. It is better to focus on building good content and website structure.

just my 2 cents

Here's my list.
1) Free Press releases
2) Forum Sigs
3) Craigslist
4) Kiji (like Craigslist)
5) A Blog entry, and adding to Blogroll
6) Directory submission
7) Article posting
8) Social bookmarking

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