Today's highlighted conversation in the From the Forums column has a user ask, "What are the most important tasks for SEO?". The conversation started back a while ago, but the quantity and quality of ideas generated are interesting to peruse. I want to specifically point out the recent post to this conversation by Brett Yount, our forums administrator (who, as of late, seems to be receiving more and more queries addressed to "Mr. Bing"), in which he stresses the value of identifying your site's target audience and working to develop expert content for them. It's useful advice that I wanted everyone to see.
To see the forum conversation thread from the beginning, check out What is the important task of SEO? in Webmaster Center's Search Engine Marketing (SEM) forum. Many thanks to all who have contributed to the forum community on this question!
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to post them in our Webmaster Center forums. See you again soon...
-- Rick DeJarnette, Bing Webmaster Center
Great! But what does Bing have to say, officially? :)
Wesley, they can't say anything officially, that would be giving away the game and allowing SEO's to game them, they have to be ambiguous!
special content for the website audience is a very important SEO task
I want to find out how to check the number of links in bing. Will post in forums as question
Quality targetted backlinks from website of the same thematic is essential.
I agree with you Rick
Good for SEO
Thanks. Rick.
keywords and content is very important in seo to get a lot of back links
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I think site speed is an important factor.
What I've discovered is an inportant factor is TIME ... The amount of time a visiotr stops on your website.
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The most important task in SEO which I consider is knowledge about the new and hot topics of SEO. The best practice of a good SEO is reading different blogs from webmasters.
Yeah i agree with the comment from infoseo, that load times (site speed) will eventually become an important factor.
Clear goals and an idea of how to achieve them, there is too much focus on ranking and not enough on the user IMHO.
@xaris loading time cannot become more important than other "tangible" factors like relevancy, page titles or links, no matter which search engine try to push an unrealistic 1 second loading time!
Sure fast websites are better for your visitors but relevancy will remain the key ranking factor for *search* engines.
