New Site- on page vs. off page SEO

[Ronnie55]

When I create a new site, I'm never sure how the balance between "on page" and "off page" work should be.

I always throw up a few pages and a blog (usually 5 total pages), and then I try to write a blog post every week. But with a few sites running, it gets difficult, and I'm starting to wonder if I'd be better off using this time to do extra off-page SEO like building links, guest blogging on other sites, etc.

Once I have a few pages and blog posts established, am I better off just letting it sit and not adding on-page content for a while, and just pumping out tons of links and off-page SEO?

I wasn't sure what the ideal balance would be in terms of effort and time spend in the first few months, trying to jump up in the google rankings.

 

[JulianTrueFlynn]

When I create a new site, I'm never sure how the balance between "on page" and "off page" work should be.

I always throw up a few pages and a blog (usually 5 total pages), and then I try to write a blog post every week. But with a few sites running, it gets difficult, and I'm starting to wonder if I'd be better off using this time to do extra off-page SEO like building links, guest blogging on other sites, etc.

Once I have a few pages and blog posts established, am I better off just letting it sit and not adding on-page content for a while, and just pumping out tons of links and off-page SEO?

I wasn't sure what the ideal balance would be in terms of effort and time spend in the first few months, trying to jump up in the google rankings.

There's no balance between onpage SEO and offpage SEO. Onpage is anything you control on your website (all elements). The only balance you should run into is the one between SEO and user experience, but it's going more and more in the direction that good user experience is good SEO.

If you ask me it's always better to invest your time into your website (keeping it active).

Now if you're talking about churn and burn this is a completely different story. From the sound of it though you're just making a bunch of shitty websites and not making enough revenue back to invest in more workers for them.

 

[mr_neo]

for on-page:

natural/keyword based interlinking between pages

keyword in title, ofcourse
1% keyword density
keyword in h1, h2, h3 tag
keyword in alt image tag
maybe a relevant video on page

personally I don't use kw in meta keywords...

 

[InTh3Moment]

Ronnie, why not do both? I know you're looking for a balance, so why don't you simply create that balance by doing both and testing? It may take some time, but since you have multiple sites, this is a perfect opportunity to do that.

You can experiment with one website doing more off-page SEO while doing more on-page SEO with another, and a combo for another, etc. Then you can see first hand the effects, although it may take months and it wont account for other variables like the difference in niche, keywords, content, etc.

 

[Fraggler]

for on-page:

natural/keyword based interlinking between pages

keyword in title, ofcourse
1% keyword density
keyword in h1, h2, h3 tag
keyword in alt image tag
maybe a relevant video on page

personally I don't use kw in meta keywords...

Thanks for making something difficult so easy with your mathematically proven formula. Do you think Google rounds up OR down when checking keyword density? What do I do if I want to target the plural as well as the singular?