The first step in SEO is to forget about SEO.
That’s right. Just craft the content. Write it for humans. Make the linksrelevant, make the headers legible, make the images helpful. Create the
page so that it is useful!
Why to Forget SEO
If your site is set up the right way (through architecture), this will be
enough to get you on the board. Once you’re on the board, humans reading
your stuff will be the ones whose votes count.
to you on their sites. It’s people who tweet, email, and share your stuff
and get that buzz that leads to PageRank, authority and all that good stuff
that search engines are trying to mathematically quantify.
Remember, You Can Always Optimize Later
Get your content out there. Actually interact and help people. That’s the
important part. Once you have time you can go back and optimize everything
to your heart’s content making those search spiders happy.
