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Search Engine Optimization is getting your content listed in all the
top positions in Google, Yahoo and MSN for your targeted keywords.
When someone does a keyword search in a search engine for your
particular subject or niche - you want your site or content to be at
the top of the list.

Here are 10 SEO tactics that have worked and are working for me at
this moment in time. I make this clarification because you must
understand search engines, especially Google, are constantly
redefining how they rank pages. Here are my favorite tactics and
strategies:

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1. Quality Content is and always will be your number one factor for
getting high rankings and keeping them. You must understand search
engines are simply businesses who supply a product like any other
company. That product is information. They must offer quality results
to anyone using their service to solve a problem, answer a question or
to buy a product. The more relevant, the more targeted the search
solution they return, the higher the overall quality of their product
and the more popular their search engine will become. Providing
quality content is vital for SEO success.
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2. Keywords are your number one tools for achieving high rankings. You
must understand keywords and how they work on the web. You must know
how many searches are made each day for your chosen keywords. Sites
like Wordtracker and Seobook will give you a rudimentary number of
searches. Design your pages around your targeted keywords and don't
forget to do some deep-linking to these pages on your site. Find and
build backlinks to these interior keyword pages and not just to your
home page or domain URL. Picking keywords with medium to low
competition has worked out well for me. So too has using the more
targeted and higher converting "long-tail" keywords been very
beneficial for me.
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3. Onpage Factors and site design will play a major role in the
spidering and indexing of your site/content. Make sure all your pages
are SEO friendly, made sure all your pages can be reached from your
homepage and no pages should be no more than three levels away from it
- keeping a sitemap listing all your major pages makes the search
engines happy. Make sure you have all your meta tags such as title,
description, keywords... are all optimized. (Title = around 65
characters, Description = around 160 characters) Remember, your title
and description should not only be keyword targeted but these are the
first contact/impression anyone will see of your site - make sure you
use them to draw and entice interested visitors to your site and
content. Also make sure your title and URL are keyword matched for
maximum effect. Having your major keyword in your Domain Name also
helps, using a pike | to separate different elements of your title has
helped my rankings, so too does having your keyword in the first and
last 25 words on your pages.
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4. Google will send you the most qualified traffic so concentrate the
majority of your SEO efforts on Google. Don't ignore Yahoo! or MSN but
Google is king of search so give it the respect it deserves. With its
new browser, Google's influence will only grow stronger so you must
optimize your pages for Google. Use Google's Webmaster Tools and
Google Analytics to fine-tune your pages/content for Google. I also
use Google Alerts to keep up on my niche keywords and for comment
link-building on the newly created pages Google is indexing.

5. Link Building is still the most effective way to boost your search
rankings. Make sure you get backlinks from relevant sites related to
your niche market and make sure the 'anchor text' is related to your
keywords but don't ignore the text and overall quality of the content
linking to you. The anchor text is the underlined/clickable portion of
a link. Don't forget linking is a two-way street, make sure you link
out to high quality, high ranked relevant sites in your niche.
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6. Article Marketing
is a well established method of getting quality backlinks and it still
works. Writing short 500 - 700 word informative helpful articles with
your backlinks in the resource box is still very effective for getting
targeted traffic and backlinks. Longer articles have also worked for
me and I use an extensive network of distribution including
SubmitYourArticle, Isnare, Thephantomwriters... plus other major
online sites. Don't forget the whole element of blogging and RSS feeds
in your article distribution. And always remember you're also using
these articles to pre-sale your content or products. Don't forget to
leverage sites like Squidoo, Hubpages... to increase your rankings and
traffic.
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7. Onsite Traffic Hubs have worked extremely well for me. These
traffic hubs are whole sections of your site devoted to one
sub-division of your major theme. For example, if you have a site on
Gifts, then wedding gifts could be a separate section. This would be
fully fleshed out with extensive pages covering everything dealing
with wedding gifts - a self-contained keyword rich portion of your
site on wedding gifts. Works similar as a sub-domain but I prefer
using a directory to divide it up, such as yourdomain/wedding_gifts.
(Most experts suggest always using a hyphen in your urls but
underscores have worked fine for me.) Search engines love these
keyword/content rich hubs but keep in mind you're creating content to
first satisfy your visitors.
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8. WordPress blog software is extremely effective for SEO purposes.
WordPress software is easy to install on your site even if you have no
experience with installing server-side scripts. Besides search engines
love these highly SEO friendly blogs with their well structured
content and keyword tagging. I have at least one of these on all my
sites to draw in the search engines and get my content indexed and
ranked. I also use Blogger (owned by Google), Bloglines and other free
blogs to help distribute my content.
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9. Social Bookmark/Media Sites are becoming very important on the web.
These include a whole range of social sites like MySpace, FaceBook,
Twitter... media news sites like Digg, SlashDot, Technorati... you
must get your content into this whole mix if you want to take full SEO
advantage of Web 2.0 sites. You should be joining these sites and
using them. It's time consuming but it will keep you in the swing of
things. One simple thing you must do is to put social bookmark buttons
on all your pages so that your visitors can easily bookmark your
content for you. You can use a WordPress plug-in or I like using a
simple free site/service from Addthis.com which gives me a simple
button to put on all my content.
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10. Masterplan! Many webmasters and site owners forget to develop or
have an overall masterplan/strategy when it comes to SEO. You must
have an understanding of what SEO is and what it can do for you and
your site. More importantly, you just don't want SEO - you want
effective SEO. In order to achieve effective SEO you must have three
things: Relevance, Authority and Conversions.
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First, your content/site must be relevant to the topic or niche area
you're pursuing - your content must fit in and be related to all the
other sites in your niche. That's why closely themed sites do so well
in the search engines, they give only relevant content to what's been
searched for or discussed.

Second, your content/site must be perceived as an authority site on
your subject or niche. Establish this authority position and the
search engines will love you and your content. One way is to develop
this authority, besides offering superior content, is to form
links/partnerships with other perceived authority sites in your field.
Always strive to make your site an authority site - tops in your niche
- the one site everyone has to check before drawing or forming a
conclusion.

Third, conversions should be your main goal of any SEO efforts because
you want to convert your targeted traffic into site members,
subscribers, buyers or just repeat visitors. If you're into online
marketing, conversions will be the most important element of the whole
SEO process because you want buyers, not just visitors coming to your
site.

Most of all, you must convince yourself Search Engine Optimization is
not difficult, nor is it the equivalent of the online bogeyman as many
would like you to believe. Used effectively, SEO can give you the
targeted traffic you're seeking, just follow some of the outlined
steps/tactics listed above and you will have SEO working for you and
your site in no time at all.

Thank You ... by: Finsofts and Designs