How to actually practice SEO?

[Ryan_132]

Hi all,

After reading up on SEO for a couple months now, I feel like I need to physically practice in order to get better. There’s a pretty big difference between reading about the subject and actually putting it into action haha.

How do I practice SEO if I don't actually have a website? Not possible right?

So, I was thinking about building a website to practice on. The only problem with that is I have to think of an actual "good" website idea, which is not easy to do. Also, if I were to do that what website builder should I use? In order to be able to practice aspects of on page and off page.

How did you guys all start off practicing SEO? I'm going to be looking for a Seo internship opportunity, but in the meantime, I am really interested and would love to get some practice in.

Thanks, any tips much appreciated.

 

[jhumphreys]

I would recommend WordPress for building your website.
If you are interesting in becoming familiar with SEO, I suggest starting a blog about it to practice on - that way you'll get to learn whilst you're researching SEO for your blog posts and put the practices into action to build up your readership.

 

[paul1129]

Start from a free blog first such as blogspot or wordpress. Practice the basic parts there.

Once you see any improvement then you can go for paid hosted blogs.

 

[jackprince]

You can Improve your knowledge by reading the blogs and start a free blog and here is today major blogging platforms. These are all available for your consideration as you start your blog.

WordPress.org (self-hosted)
WordPress.com (online)
Blogger
Tumblr
Medium
Ghost
Squarespace
Wix
Joomla
Weebly

 

[vishwa]

Yes, you should definitely try the things first in free platforms like Blogger, weebly, Wordpress.com etc. When you get some knowledge you can nurture your skills in self hosted WordPress. I also recommend you to read Google webmasters blog.