Write valid
HTML.
Ironically, this
is often one step in SEO that
many Web developers forget -
they focus so much on other
aspects of SEO that they forget
that simple things like valid
HTML can help your pages get
spidered much more than meta
keywords and meta
descriptions.
Find good
keyword
phrases.
What makes
up a good keyword phrase can be
tricky, but that is what you
should be optimizing your page
for. Don't try to come up with
every keyword phrase possible.
Instead, focus on one phrase
that really captures what your
page is about, and make sure
that that phrase is repeated in
the content, the headlines, and
links within the page.
Don't optimize your
entire site.
This
may seem confusing, but many
Web developers want to come up
with one keyword phrase and
optimize every page on the Web
site for that phrase. While
that makes your life a lot
easier, it won't get any of the
pages the exposure that you
would otherwise want. Instead,
focus on optimizing one page at
a time - find the keyword
phrase that works for that
page, and optimize it. Then
move on to the next page in
your site. If you treat every
page as a possible entry page
on your Web site, your readers
will have more ways to find the
site.
Don't Give Up on
SEO
SEO takes a long time to see
results with. Even if you ask a
search engine to spider your
Web site or a specific page, it
can take days for it to show up
in the results. And if you're
optimizing an existing Web page
that's already in the search
engine, it can take even longer
for your changes to take
effect.
Don't get discouraged by your
rankings. Remember that unless
you've chosen a very unpopular
search term, it can be very
hard to get a top 10 (first
page) ranking in most search
engines. Just keep trying - the
results are worth the
effort.