Experience the Freedom (plus traffic and sales increses) of becoming your own SEO Expert.

You no longer have to rely on high priced  SEO services that quite frankly show little results. They do say if you want a job doing...do it yourself. Yes-it will take a bit of time. Yes-You will have to learn some new techniques. Yes-You can speed up the whole process buy buying a few cheap tools (we reccomend the best of them on this site), Yes- You can just pay someone to do it for you.

Big Mistakes.

Thinking your site dosen't need any SEO. Assuming that is you pay a one off fee to any company that provides SEO that you won't need any more SEO on your site in future. There is a lot of SEO techniques you apply to a newly launched site, but SEO is an ongoing process! Here is a basic fast track listing of SEO practice, site start up and tips to help you avoid mistakes and time and money consuming pitfalls.

SEO-The condensed method

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If you haven't already chosen your subject matter for you site-do it now. Even if you will be marketing your own product, look for some related additioanl products to add from great converting sponsors. (See Index) Reasearch your subject, keywords and meta info carefully.

Build your new killer site-only after reading the valuable tutorials availiable on this site (see index)

SEO TOOLS

There are an awful lot of SEO Tools, affiliate marketing guides and sponsors out there-that as far as I'm concerned....are a complete waste of money! Many are also overpriced, useless and may even get you banned from the search engines-so beware.

I have bought them, tested them, worn the t-shirt....littered through out this site, you will see that we have listed only the very best, usefull and quality products, services and sponsors that have been tested by many webmasters and found to be benificial. You don't have to have any of them-but they do speed things up and cut down on your workload. We have only listed those found to be of benifit and not over priced!

Why would you need LINK EXCHANGES for SEO?

Two main reasons, to get traffic, to get higher PR. Go to  http://xchangetextlinks.com/ and sign yourself up. Much better than banner exchanges-the site offers you the chance to immidiatly take part in relevant text link exchanges-I will explain why this is important in a momment.

Ok, lets say that your site sells cat food. The best thing for you to do in SEO terms is to link with other cat/food/cat product related sites with PR. In SEO terms even if you can get a PR 4 site selling golf balls to link to you, search engines may mark it as a non- relevant link exchange and ignore it. Far better to get links from similar or closely related sites.

If you own a huge network of sites....be vey carefull about linking them all up. Instead, try linking sites a-b to c-d instead. The search engines can detect patterns, and if you link every single one of your sites up ro all the others-they will smell a rat and penalise you! Not the way to SEO.

Try a google search and look for sites similar or related to your own ans email the webmasters requesting an exchange. Try to wait a short time till your site has at least a little PR-other webmasters are more likely to agree to an exchange if you do.

Be careful who you link too-google them and make sure that the site has not been banned, or that the webmaster that you are exchanging with is not a cheat. Google them-if they are someone  who cheats it is very likely someone has reported them before on a webmaster board at some point.

Check up on your link exchanges every so often, you may find that people cheat and remove your link-or they could have had a mishap and accidently lost your link. Some webmasters may be worse than cheats and re-direct your link to illegal sites-so check up on them from time to time.

Three way linking explained. Now I have talked all through the site about one way backlinks. A one way link (These means site A links to your site and your site does not link back) are very valuable to you in SEO terms. So do get your site in as many non reciprical link directories as possible. Also-if you know any bloggers-see if they are prepaired to 'review' your site adding a link to it. Now, once you have got a few link exchanges or are a regular on a few webmaster boards, you may be in a position to set up some three way linking. Three way link exchanges work this way-You have 2 cat food sites A AND B. You get chatting to a webmaster who has 2 cat fod sites 1 and 2. Now, you agree to link to site 1 from site A of your sites, he links to site A of your site on his site 2. So instead of direct site to site straight link swops-you can both link to each other from different sites to the original site in question.

To explain it another way in SEO terms, you may well see posts such as this on webmaster boards:

Source Blogger

Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules to what a blog is or is not. Free blogs used to attract surfers to whatever your selling can be set up at many places, I prefer Blogger.com myself (Google now owns it) I have tried a few free services and have found that mysteriously, these blogger blogs, get spidered more frequently by google and achieve higher page rank quicker than othersJ in my personal experience, this is also achieve faster on blogs than on most websites, Search engines seem to like them a lot. Blogging for SEO is an extremly good idea.

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff adding pictures and banners on an ongoing basis. Publish it without the need for ftp and add banners adds and google addwords and whatever you like on the blog, and/or to every post. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what the latest post from you is. Visitors can read previous posts at any time and search engines continue to spider them. Older posts can be set to be archived each and every month or week, it is up to you. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Blogs at Blogger can be set up in seconds also. They are Completely free too! The only rules are, no hatred, no scams, no explicit adult content In SEO terms-a blog is a great and extremly helpfull tool

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The Sponsors listed here, are known to be the best converting Non-Adult sponsors. They have material availiable for affiliates that is in the main, is very good in SEO terms also. Chose your add content carefully and allways re-name banners including you keywords in the alt image text wherever possible. Just click the listings to join these High paying and converting sponsors. Check back often as this list will be frequently updated.

Azoogle- a great selection of various types of money making adds and offers that will sit comfortably on various site of many subjects. They have a great choise of affiliate material to  use from text links, banners, adds, even pre-made mail outs in some cases. Read the specific rules for each product. Some allow email marketing, some do not. They also stock a lot of Free to download stuff for surfers, EG screen savers etc. The surfer gets something for free and you get paid when they chose a freebie! I have found Azoogle to be a great money spinner on many of my sites.