SEO Arsenal Review

Like I said in the intro, The SEO Arsenal is a video course, lasting for approximately 2 hours.
And I must say i'm impressed. I learn't SO much in that time! Personally, i've wanted to learn html and css for a long time now, but it seems so boring to start learning it. Reading and learning massive amounts of codes in short time simply doesn't appeal to me. But watching movie clips on my computer, learning SE-friendly html and css certainly was interesting.

Now, what you can expect from The SEO Arsenal:

1. Quite simple movieclips teaching you html and css, wih good explanation, so it's easy to understand, even for "coding-newbies" like me.
2. You don't have to download the films, you can stream them. ( saving you disk-space)
3. You will learn how to make websites fit to all browsers and screen resolution. ( which alone, is a reason to buy it for many people!)
4. You get 3 pre-made SE-Optimized templates you can implement right away. ( 1 1-coloumn,1 2 coloumn, and 1 3 coloumn)
5. You also get the "adwords abuse" e-book, and the "photoshop secrets revealed" course, teaching you how to make stunning website graphics.
6. Access to their forum, where you can get tips from other users of ebiz-dynasties products. And even request products you want to be made etc.

Now for the things that wasn't very good...

1. There was no e-book/report about the codes they use, step-by-step etc.
2. The video's wasn't perfect. e.g they wasn't planned as well as they could. ( However, the content is good)
3. They haven't included the basics of how to get indexed by the SE's,and get treffic. ( You can find it for free elsewhere though, but it would be nice for the "traffic-newbies" if they included it.)

Conclusion:
I think that if you combine the methods from The SEO Arsenal, with other well-known SEO tips, like backlinks, you will get amazing results.
Although I haven't tried to implement the methods yet, I'm going to do it very soon, and I will keep this lens updated with my results.

All-in-all, I would curently give it a 8/10.
And that's WITHOUT testing my rankings in the SE's.
Everything else that was included was great.
It's not "The Ultimate SEO" package, but the info it provided was new, and it was nicely done. I must admit that I have bought a lot of SEO products. All with similar info, but these methods are really new to me, and I'm glad that I now have it.

To visit the website go to The SEO Arsenal homepage.

I'll post a few basic SEO and traffic tips in this post.

1. Get high-quality backlinks.
A high quality backlink, is a one-way link to you site from a website with high PR, (PageRank) with relevant content.
Ways to get backlinks:
- Submit articles to article-databases with a lnik to your site in your author-bio
- Buy links from sites. ( I've heard about people having great success with this)
- Submit your site to link-submission sites

2. Have a link to your site in forum sig's. And post frequently, to relevant forums.

3. Get a high keyword-density for your main keywords. ( keyword-density is how often your main keywords appear on your site)

4. Submit your website to sites like digg, del.icio.us and network pages like that.

5. Make a sitemap on your site, and submit it to google, using "google webmaster tools". This makes it easier for the SE's to spider your entire page.

6. Make google pages, squidoo lenses etc. with a description of your site, and links wherever your site's main keyword appears in your page/lens.

P.S. - If you want to quickly get indexed by the search engines, simply submit your website to digg.
Then it should get indexed the same day, AND you will get traffic and a backlink as well.

I've done a little research on web 2.0 sites you can use to get your site ranked higher in the SE's and get more traffic.

Here are the most popular ones I found:

http://www.digg.com/
http://del.icio.us/
http://reddit.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.furl.net/
http://www.spurl.net/
http://www.trailfire.com/
http://ma.gnolia.com/
http://clipmarks.com/
http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html
http://www.oodle.com/
http://www.vflyer.com/main/Guest.jsp
http://www.newsvine.com/

http://www.onlywire.com - This is definately the best. You'll know why when you get there ;o)

Feel free to post if there are any important ones that I have forgotten.

Traffic exchanges is a good way to get more traffic fast. That is, IF you use them right.

Tonnes of hard-earned traffic will do you nothing good if you don't use it well.

Here is a few tips:

1. Make your website viral.
- By this, I mean that you should have a goal to not rely 100% on this kind of traffic.
Make the traffic you get pay off, and help you get more traffic.

For example a squidoo lens. By getting traffic to it, people might rate your lens well, and make you improve your rank - hence giving you even more traffic. By doing things like this, your traffic will grow expotentially, as more people might vote etc.

But people won't vote if you have a bad lens. At least you will not be able to get traffic over time, as people realize the uselessness of your lens, or consider it spam.

You must also grab their attention right away, since most of the traffic exchanges doesn't give the visitor much time on your website before they can leave.

Here is a link to a traffic exchange that I like, and have gotten quite a lot of traffic from.

What is the majority of the people for traffic exchanges interested in? - Traffic.

There are probably many other websites that might seem tempting, but traffic is the nr 1 reason why they are on your website in the first place.

So... Are you providing traffic tips? SEO E-Books? Traffic E-books? SEO or traffic software? A great advertising program? Backlink building services?

OR do you have an online flower shop or a website selling german tiger potty training tips?

So if you are in the last group, you probably shouldn't be using traffic exchanges as much as others.

The idea is to have something generally appealing, that many people will be interested in. It might not only be traffic, but it can be webdesign tools, special discounts for popular products, web hosting etc. As long as it is GOOD. Preferably better than other places.
People won't buy web hosting from a website they found at a traffic exchange, unless it's either cheap, or special in some sort of way.

Simply put - be smart, and smarter than the others.
Provide good content, or interesting products.
Think like the other users, and as yourself.
- Why do you browse those pages? Because of interests? NO, probably not. You do it to get traffic to your own website. So would another way of getting lots of traffic interest you? Of course!