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How to Become an SEO Expert in 2021

Looking for how to become an SEO expert or specialist? Yeah we understand and that’s the reason you are here! Right?

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In order to become a professional and master in any field require a full dedication, commitment, eager to gain knowledge, keep updated with new updates, timely skills enhancement with new trends and technology.

For example, if a person love poems and memorised few of them by reading books and online that does not make him/her a pundit of poems. So first research, read, learn, understand, practice and then execute.

So, are you ready to go…….?

Here are 10 tips to help you to become an SEO Expert in 2021

Only focus on key points and then deeply learn about it to get better experience.

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1) Learn Basic Fundamentals of SEO

2) Create your own Website

3) Create your website with Popular CMS like WordPress

4) Learn How Search Engines Work

5) Understand Google Analytics and Search Console

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-->Google Analytics: let you know to measure website performances and reporting.

-->Google Search Console: help you to check your website health and key messages from the Search Engines.

6) What is EAT in SEO and why you need to understand it?

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-->EAT stands for Expertise, Authority and Trust search quality metrics created by Google in order to give its searchers and customers most authoritativeness & trustworthiness brands or companies in the search results.

--> Expertise: You can say like having depth knowledge and skills in a particular field. Let say you are talking about SEO and you’ve described on your site, what is SEO, how it works, who requires SEO services, and many more, in a way Google find your website demonstrated with higher level of expertise.

--> Authoritativeness: Here you can describe about yourself, what actually you are! You can use to show your professional title, short bio, photo, etc. these leads to gain the trust of your site visitors.

--> Trustworthiness: It is the moment where people start trusting on your contents provided online. You can show trust on your site by having contact information, business page, about-us, team member pictures, terms & condition page, HTTPS on your site, etc.

7) Build your personal connections

8) Add new skill sets in your expertise

9) Join Digital Marketing Groups on Social Platforms

10) Do not lose patience

Top comments (4)

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7th Avenue Partners Inc.

Great Information, Thanks

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Haiyong

Does the "2020" in the article have to be changed to "2021"?🙌

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Kailas

yes sorry i made mistake

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Aniket Chauhan

Great 🙌