SEO basic steps for beginner/newbie upwork freelancers

Here are the Five Steps to More Search Traffic (It means SEO).  Super helpful essential SEO for beginner or newbie Upwork freelancers.

Simply complete the Essential SEO Checklist for each of your websites.

  1. Create a Sitemap and get it in Google.  Actually, not just google (via Google Webmaster).  You have to submit your website sitemap also to Yahoo, Bing and Ask. You can actually opt for some third party sitemap submission websites like Ping Sitemap.
  2. Google Blacklist Check.  Check if your site has been blocked by Google.  Simply perform a search in Google with “site:yourdomainname.com”. You can do this regularly too.
  3. Link Building- This means that your URL must be found in other website so that people can click on them.  The easiest way to do this is to create social media accounts and add your URL to the about section.
  4. See your new listings – You have to verify your submissions in Google and Yahoo/Bing.   Just go to the respective webmaster sites and you can find how to verify your submissions there. If you are using wordpress and the SEO Yoast plugin, you can easily do this.
  5. Build More Powerful Links – Check out other directories below.
Top Search Engines

  1. EntireWeb
  2. Teoma
  3. AOL
  4. Comcast
  5. Google Canada
  6. Altavista
  7. Search
  8. Lycos
  9. Hotbot
  10. Yandex
  11. DogPile
  12. Excite
  13. Cathoogle
  14. InfoSpace
  15. GoodSearch
  16. Mamma
  17. Yippy
  18. AltaVista France
  19. AltaVista Germany
  20. Altavista Netherlands
  21. Altavista Norway
  22. Altavista UK
  23. Ask Jeeves UK
  24. AskQuickly
  25. Blackle
  26. Blekko
  27. Clusty
  28. CompuServ
  29. DuckDuckGO
  30. Ecosia
  31. Everyclick
  32. Exactseek
  33. Findelio
  34. GigaBlast
  35. Google Argentina
  36. Google Australia
  37. Google Austria
  38. Google Azerbaijan
  39. Google Brazil
  40. Google China
  41. Google Denmark
  42. Google France
  43. Google Germany
  44. Google India
  45. Google Israel
  46. Google Italy
  47. Google Japan
  48. Google Mexico
  49. Google Netherlands
  50. Google New Zealand
  51. Google Poland
  52. Google Romania
  53. Google Russia
  54. Google South Africa
  55. Google Spain
  56. Google Sweden
  57. Google Switzerland
  58. Google United Kingdom
  59. Google Venezuela
  60. Hotbot Spanish
  61. Info.com
  62. InterBusca
  63. Ixquick
  64. iZito
  65. LeMoteur
  66. Lycos France
  67. Lycos Germany
  68. Lycos Netherlands
  69. Lycos United Kingdom
  70. Metacrawler
  71. MonsterCrawler
  72. MyWay
  73. MyWebSearch
  74. OrangeSearch
  75. PWLinks
  76. qksearch
  77. Scrub the Web
  78. Semager
  79. Shoula
  80. SitesOnDisplay.com
  81. SupremeSearch
  82. Vinden
  83. WebCrawler
  84. Wow
  85. Yahoo! Australia
  86. Yahoo! Brazil
  87. Yahoo! Canada
  88. Yahoo! China
  89. Yahoo! Denmark
  90. Yahoo! France
  91. Yahoo! Germany
  92. Yahoo! Norway
  93. Yahoo! Sweden
  94. Yahoo! Uk
  95. Zapmeta
  96. Zuula