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No matter if you like it or not when the old year fades away and the new year arrives most of us think about the past and the future.
- Was it a successful year?
- Where did we succeed, where did we fail?
- Which of the mistakes do we want to overcome next year?
Most people tend to plan for the upcoming year. Plenty like to be very specific about these plans so they come up with new year’s resolutions they want to fulfill. We’re in the SEO industry are not exempt from it.
What goals do make sense for 2010? I’ve selected 20 of them you might want to use as your resolutions as well, the 20 SEO new year’s resolutions for 2010
- I will build less links and get more links organically instead
- I will care less about PageRank, traffic and rankings and focus more on conversions, profits and ROI instead.
- I will stop “doing SEO” and will make my websites succeed on the Web instead, whatever it takes and no matter how you call it
- I will try to get more organic visitors and less paid ones
- I will try to get more returning visitors and instead of just casual social media and search visitors
- I will reduce my bounce rate by 20, 30 or 40%
- I will invest more in branding to get more branded searches and less via fickle generic keywords
- I will stop using social media and start contributing in a meaningful way
- I will care less about short term results and implement long term strategies instead
- I will make my current projects succeed and my current clients happy instead of starting more projects and seeking new clients
- I will get less dependent on Google and diversify my income sources
- I will make my sites more usable for those users than reach them already to make them stay
- I will set up more conversion goals to get results beyond sales. Think subscriptions, mentions, social media votes
- I will combine my SEO, social media and CRM strategies to form a new holistic approach
- I will stop competing by the price and will start competing by the quality of products and services. Indians will always be cheaper anyways
- I will stop hiding what I do and rather proudly brag about my clients, employees and partners
- I will undertake steps to gain foothold in the mobile and local markets by optimizing for mobile devices and local search
- I will take part in some real life industry events or conferences to get more social for real
- I will write more tutorials and how to articles to educate my peers and readers
- I will use more different media formats like images, videos, micro blogging, ebooks and infographics to succeed in universal search
All these resolutions start with “I” in order for you to be able to better identify with them. It’s not solely the “I” of the author. It’s not only me. You can do it too.
You can get better in 2010 as well. Of course I have implemented some of them in the past already but still all of these resolutions make sense in 2010.
Thanks for the great post. I see quite a few of these resolutions on my list.
Happy New Year
nice post I agreed with alot of them!
Nice list, I need to do a few of those myself.
You GGET SO aTTATCHED TO seo AND gOOGLE YOU THINK THATS THE ONLY WAY TO SUCCEED WHEN THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
On No3. Why you will stop do SEO???
some great detail here. I particularly liked no 8, 11 & 12.
Good to hear that. I’m tire to compete by price.
What a great list! I just might have to put some of these on my list as I work on my search marketing local project. However, it seems that some of these would be a bit hard to break the “habit” of though. But, it will certainly be worth a shot!
Really some great resolutions to implement. I love it 11,18 & 19 the most.
Build less links? Less SEO? I see what your saying, but that sounds tough.
I agree! Great list and beggining for the new year
In order to get more links naturally you will need to write great content, like articles. That is a great idea and something we should always do anyway.
I seem to have been late finding your 20 SEO new year resolution. Anyways, I was wondering how you are doing with these resolutions. What are your approaches(especially with number 3)? No offense, but I find some of your resolutions contradicting with one another. Stop “doing SEO”? How will you get more organic visitors by not doing SEO? For a fact, most people use search engines to find something, how will they find your site? Maybe what you mean is to stop over-optimizing your site for search engines and start making your site more user friendly(through navigation and informative content) right? Good luck Mate!
I like #16! I need to start bragging MORE, I never brag! Especially not about myself or the successes I’ve had for myself or my clients