Oh no! Not another "what can I take with me?" exercise!

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Desert island situations. We all hate them, but I’m going to take a stab at one relating to SEO.

In this scenario you can only take 3 SEO techniques with you to the desert island to subsist off of until you’re “rescued”.

Practically speaking, you might not have enough time, enough expertise, or enough money to implement any other techniques.

What SEO techniques would I take with me?

Number one is back links. Everyone needs links. Without them search engines won’t find your business, and you’ll find it hard to rank your highly relevant, well researched keywords in your…

Title Tags. Number two is title tags. You’re a plumber that offers a service called… drain mass extraction. What do searchers use to find a plumber that unblocks drains? Answer that, make it your title tag, and then…

Write some useful content. Three is useful, or valuable content. If you don’t have any, search engines won’t index your content, and people won’t give you back links to it. They also likely won’t do anything once they reach your confusing, boring, or inaccurate web page.

Lets recap!

The three most important SEO factors you need to follow if you follow no others are:

1. Back links.

2. Title tags.

3. Useful content.

No matter how crappy your website otherwise, if you had a lot of back links, a lot of useful content, and correctly researched and written title tags, you could survive pretty much any desert island situation.

You might even survive a world without search engines, which funnily enough is a possibility (never say never).

Even if search engines didn’t exist, or perhaps you simply can’t rank for super competitive terms, then following this advice will get you traffic from other websites… that is of course, if you’re building “real” back links, and not just spamming low quality areas of the web.

If you’ve got your own desert island list, lets hear it.