{"id":5817,"date":"2024-04-22T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:26:17","slug":"12-mistakes-every-seo-newbie-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/12-mistakes-every-seo-newbie-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Mistakes Every SEO Newbie Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TLDR<\/strong>: Optimize SEO with a focus on conversions, diversify marketing strategies, and continuously learn and adapt through practical application.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article is a summary of a You Tube video &#8220;12 Mistakes Every SEO Newbie Makes&#8221; by Nathan Gotch<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NN0nS74r704?si=8t5rcbdwW-ac60Fk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Focus on Conversions, Not Traffic<\/strong>: Prioritize keyword intent and conversions over merely boosting site traffic with high-volume informational keywords.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEO Isn\u2019t Everything<\/strong>: Diversify marketing strategies beyond SEO to include other channels like YouTube and email marketing, enhancing overall digital marketing effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supplement Income<\/strong>: Expand beyond a basic salary through affiliate marketing, creating courses, or launching an e-commerce business, leveraging SEO skills to generate additional revenue streams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Action Over Consumption<\/strong>: Mastery in SEO comes from practical experience and learning from real-world applications, not just consuming content.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Measure What Matters<\/strong>: Focus on actionable metrics (lead measures) that directly influence your goals, rather than solely on outcomes (lag measures) which are not immediately controllable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Control Focus<\/strong>: Concentrate on what you can control, such as your efforts and strategies, rather than external factors beyond your influence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Income Diversification<\/strong>: Mitigate risks by diversifying income sources within your field of expertise to ensure business resilience during economic downturns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learn Supplementary Skills<\/strong>: Boost your market value by acquiring skills complementary to SEO, like sales, copywriting, and conversion optimization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Systemize Processes<\/strong>: Create systematic, repeatable processes for SEO tasks to ensure consistency and reliability in results.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seek Mentorship and Network<\/strong>: Accelerate learning and avoid common pitfalls by networking with and learning from experienced professionals in the field.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimize SEO with a focus on conversions, diversify marketing strategies, and continuously learn and adapt through practical application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo","category-41","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5819,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions\/5819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}