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Hey everyone, new to this game, but been working hard to learn, have a website for an independant insurance broker in Northern Ireland, I have been using adwords and insights to try find good keywords to build his site around. But really struggling to find any keywords which people in Northern ireland are searching for, that are not in high competition.

Anyone give me a pointer how i could better identify the keywords i seek

Ok guys so i am exactly a month into my seo career, and i have learned a decent amount, but to be honest i still feel swamped!

Anyway i have no linked up with a friend and we are going to work together for 12 months to teach each other SEO.

There is so much content on this website i don't think i will ever read it all, but i have looked at the 2011 MozCon Video Bundle and id like some advice.

Would these videos help a rookie? or are they more advanced viewing?

Hey guys i have a question in regards to targetting seo results. A lot of my customers will me SME and most have visitors of under 50 per day. My question is how do you judge the amount of traffic a website of a small local business should be getting?

For instance i have a site that gets average 22 visits per day, i would love to know how much their competitors get per day so i can know what targets to strive for.

I feel that is 22 is ten times more than the compeitors website then the amount of seo time needed is less than if it is 10 times behind what competitors get.

Thoughts?

thanks guys, i actually have been reading about seo now off and on for about 3 months, but i took your comments on board above and have spent the last two days reading those booklets.

I have this 30 day trial so have started playing about with the software. I have so far created a campaign for a restaurant website i recently made and researched keywords which could prove good for their business but are not in to high a competitive field.

I selected three keyword sentences to use on the website and have ran the page optimisation for each. At start i had grade F on all and my site wasnt showing in top 50. I have today worked on this and brought two of the sentences up to a grade A report and one to a grade B. I have set the analysis to run each week from now on to hopefully see growth.

im now about to look into the rest of the link building etc etc. But this part seemed rather simple to implement, but i assume its just not a case of now sitting back and watching the site move up the search engines is it? can i assume that this work alone may get me into the top 50 at least?

Stephen

Hey everyone i just came across SEOMOZ today, i have been building websites for 3 years now but SEO is something which has always been a scary topic to consider trying to master. I have made a decision to do this in 2012 and i have been looking for a software package which can stear me and teach me. I have been reading the site help today and i feel totally swamped! i have created my campaign but a lot of the results dont make much sense to me and i am unsure of how to fix the errors they found. For instance the crawl diagnostics shows i have 5 4xx client errors. They show me a link to the page where the error is http://www.mydomain.com/category/latest-news/function.require but when i go to see what this is i just find an error 404 not found page.How do i go about removing this error if i have no idea where the problem is? I have started reading SEO User guide and beginers guide and i know it is going to take me a long time to get use to this all, but i am struggling to find the starting point and hope someone can possible help me find the first few steps. Thanks