Decide to SEO for 2008-

This should become your mantra if you decide to SEO for 2008. I will write better SEO, I will write better SEO I will write better SEO. It's not too late you can still take care of these things with the 9 months you have left in 2008. If you follow these next suggestions I can assure you that you will see a change in your rankings.

Decide to Audit your website for a complete SEO over-haul
Put aside some time to review your index pages. If you have thousands of pages then go over your most important pages. Take a look at your log files see where most of your traffic is going then start with those pages first. Simple things like checking your <title> tags match the copy on your page and checking the alt on the images of that page. If you have some time then get more specific like working with your <h1>, <h2>, etc of your pages. These are you HTML tags, they are as important as bread and water. Here is more information about this on http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_H35n.html

Decide to do more Keyword Searches
Have you changed your products or services in the last quarter? If you have then make sure you remove the old keywords and place the new keywords that pertain to your new product or services. Keep in mind Search Engine Optimization is a constant just like death and taxes. Do a spring cleaning of sorts, take out the old keywords or maybe use them toward the end of you keywords and place the more relevant ones at the beginning of your keywords. Check your competition keywords. What are they using?

Decide to Update your content
This is an important feature that needs to be addressed. Maybe you should add a weblog to your site, or maybe you can ask your customers and readers to participate in feedback through your blog. See what is of interest to them address their concerns and keep the communication open. That is the key here after all they are your bread and butter.

Decide to use more Incoming links
Get some respectable sources to give you reciprocal links. Whether a social network or maybe a client you have been working with. This is very important in the world of Search Engines. I can tell you since I have been participating in blogs and more articles my name has crawled up the Google ranking. Try it, I know I did now my name (Gabriella Sannino) is ranked #1 on Google. Wait that's not really fair since my name is unusual but it makes me feel like a star. Now don't just get links to your landing page but also your sub pages. Whether it's your e-commerce page or maybe your best blog posting.

Decide to be active in networking and social media.
Profiles on MySpace, to LinkedIn or Facebook are a good place to start maybe specific to your industry. Let me be the first to tell you if not the last social networks are the wave of the future. This is an easy way to get more exposure to your websites. In a way it's almost like having several websites. Needless to say you will also generate more leads. For example I have Newsvine Reddit, delicious. If you have a writer on staff have them write an article a week, post them to all the social media sites or at Ezinearticles. Be active not proactive don't wait for the bull but grab the bull by the horns, and decide to SEO for 2008.

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