Nice sharing for that stymiee. Although there are some blackhat techniques included but it is useful.

Google Webmaster Tool and Adwords is a best match to help you on archieving good ranking for your site. Try to read through Google Webmaster Help to learn on Google search Engine Optimization.

Is better to know on Google itself rather then listen to other SEO companies out there where some of them are just selling the products

Great post, Stymiee.

I have one question. I've heard before that you shouldn't launch your site before it is done. What is the reason for that?

Thanks.

Because newer sites tend to be crawled less frequently then older established sites. If your site is crawled while it is under construction that will be the content they use to rank your pages and put in their cache. You may have to wait weeks or months for them to come back around and find your real content.

You can do better on your website than any SEO company. All it takes is approx 1 hour a day but that effort has to be consistent. You should keep an eye on both on site content and off site link development processes simutaneously.

Try PPC , good linking and think a bit smart when you are doing your SEO.

Simply follow these "Dont do what others are doing!!! try different way" you will see good results.

stymiee has given you good way to get started but thats what all have being doing so think in different way.

I had to remove the link to your website as self promotion is not allowed at Daniweb.

But I checked it out before I removed it. That checklist was pretty bad. It basically was full of advice based on myths. The checklist above offers not only far more information but far more accurate information.

hey

Stick to the topic at hand. The website that you snipped out has no bearing in this discussion. Email the guy if you want to bad talk his SEO perspectives.

I thought you were the moderator of this group. Shoot, I can't wait for DaniGirl to get rid of you. You are one of the most pompous, irritating and self-inflated horn tooting jerks ever to come through here. I have no idea what danigirl sees in your bias and obsolete SEO ways ...

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