SEO 

I have to admit that i'm not a SEO expert, but I've learned a lot since I started my online business in 2004. In our days Search Engine Optimization is an art in which the rules and techniques change as quickly as the Internet changes. The following paragraphs might not represent the lastest findings to skyrock your web site at Google, Yahoo etc. But they definitely provide you the basics to launch your online project in a decent manner without spending a dime.  Search Engine traffic is the best kind of website traffic. Targeted traffic is pre-qualified traffic that’s already interested in your website content. In other words, they see your site on a list of results because they were searching for information about the subject of your website. We've tried to list out top strategies that we have used with our websites with success. To increase your site visitors’ leads and sales; implement these simple search engine techniques to rise to the top:

Select your domain name carefully
Use your keywords or a keyword phrases in your domain name. It creates brand awareness. Use these resources for your wholesale priced domain names. For example, if you're planning for "seo tips" keywords, you must have this keyword listed in your domain name... for example seotipsfromjane.com, seo-tips-expert.com, etc...

Design your website carefully
Website layout, header markups and html coding are very important factory for Search Engine Optimization.

Always design HTML validated websites
We strongly recommend to design http://validator.w3.org validated HTML validates. Search Engine prefers properly HTML marked websites.

Create a Top Notch Page Title
Title tags are key because all search engines give this tag a lot of weight. Put your keyword phrases evenly distributed into this tag. Don't use extra words linking, non-descript company name or home page. It should reflect exactly what your web page is about. Focus on using the keyword phrases people might be using in the search engine to find your company. I strongly recommend you to study what title tags beind used by Top Search Engine Results websites in your keyword category. Best recommended length for title is 200 characters.

Use Keyword Meta Tag Properly
If you simply create a web site and register the URL with the search engines, their spiders will visit your site, and attempt to index it. Each search engine operates slightly differently, and each one weighs different elements of a web site according to their own proprietary algorithms. Most of search engines consider keyword meta tag as useful guidelines to index your website. Each Keyword should be separted by ",". Try to use most variants of your keywords for better search engine optimizations. If you have trouble finding good keywords, check out either WORDTRACKER.

Description Meta Tag
Some search engines will include the description below your title. Carefully choose 20 of your most important keywords and write a 200-500 character sentence about your site. Don’t just repeat your title but write with different keywords. Some search engines prefer just the description Meta tag and some will use both title and description tags.

Keyword Desity in your meta tags
Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”). You find some examples of meta tags HERE.

Working on BackLinks and search engine submission
It is now time to let the search engines and the world know about your website. What if your website is excellent, but the robots did not crawl it yet? What if your website is crawled but not coming up at top positions? The answer: you need backlinks and search engine submissons. It is important that you submit your website to all major search engines and even more important work on backlinks. Once your website is submitted, it will be crawled for indexing in 2 weeks to 24 weeks. Now what is the most important factory that most SE's count for indexing yhour website in top 10 results? The only answer is Backlinks to your website. More backlinks from excellent ranked pages will bubble up your results in search engines. More and More backlinks will enhance your results in search engines dramatically.

Last not least here are some free submission pages for submitting your websites to google, yahoo, msn/live, aol, Alexa, Qiz-It, SearchIt, Jayde, WhatUseek, ExactSeek, Splat, Abacho, Amfibi etc etc:

australia
http://www.websearch.com.au/cgi-bin/submit.cgi
http://www.dpcomputing.com.au/adelaidesouth/sitesubmit.html
http://www.island-search.com/Guidlines-to-add-site.htm

austria
http://www.austria-seek.at/cgi-bin/search/add_url.cgi?Category=
http://www.abacho.at/abacho_dienst/anmelden.html
http://atsearch.at/add.html

belgium
http://www.debestegids.be/aanmeldenbe/index.html

denmark
http://www.ahot.dk/tilmeld_gratis.asp
http://links.jubii.dk/

france
http://www.mirago.fr/fr/region/ajout.asp

germany
http://www.auri.de/url-add.html
http://www.abacho.de/abacho_dienst/anmelden.html
http://www.acoon.de/addurl.asp
https://listing.allesklar.de/listingshop2005/order_entry.php
http://abadoor.com/url_eintrag/

mexico
http://www.buscapique.com/busqueda/link_submit.php
http://www.latinworld.com/contribute.html

new zealand
http://www.localeye.co.nz/utilities/suggestSite
http://www.mkiwi.com/services/add_url.html

russia
http://catalog.aport.ru/rus/add/AddUrl.aspx

south africa
http://www.susysearch.com/addsite/
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/suggest.html
http://submit.searchza.com/

spain
http://www.apali.com/afegir-url.htm

sweden
http://www.sweseek.com/lcgi-bin/global/add.cgi

switzerland
http://www.abacho.ch/abacho_dienst/anmelden.html
http://www.cnous.ch/ajout.php (french)
http://www.reference.ch/cgi-bin/reference/ajouter.pl (french)

u.k.
http://www.atuk.co.uk/addurl/index.htm
http://services.bradford-net.com/submitsite.php
http://www.scotsmart.com/submit2.html (Scotland)

usa – regional sites
http://www.nationaldirectory.com/submit.php
http://www.californiamall.com/CalMallSearch/Submission.asp (California) http://www.caribbeandiving.com/resources/user.php (Florida)

You can submit your site to some more search engines and directories here:

Page Rank related
Rank Checker (Ranking Tool) - Get a overview of your website's ranking
PageRank Lookup (PageRank Lookup - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - check the PageRank for a website
Google PageRank Prediction (PageRank Prediction - Predict Page Rank Predictor) - check predicted PR of a site
Multi-Rank Checker (Rank Checker) - View your Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking in bulk
PageRank Checker (PageRank Checker - Check Your Google Page Rank) - View your Google PageRank on differnet Google servers

Links related
Reciprocal Link Check (Reciprocal Link Checker) - check whether your link partners are linking back to your website
Link Popularity Checker (LinkWorth | LinkQuote - Text Link Quote) - a popularity score given to a website based on inbound links
LinkPrice Lookup (LinkWorth | LinkQuote - Text Link Quote) - check the price of your link
Link Price Calculator (Link Price Calculator) - another tool for checking the price of links
Link Checker (http://www.ranks.nl/cgi-bin/ranksnl/tools/checklink.pl) - check your links to see if it's still valid or not
Link Popularity (Link Popularity - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - checks the total number of web pages which link to a website
Link Price Calculator (Link Price Calculator - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - help to determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website
Site Link Analyzer (Site Link Analyzer - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text
URL Rewriting (URL Rewriting - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs
Link Extractor (Link Extractor) - Extract links from a specific web page
Link Shortener (Link Shortener - Short/Shortcut Link - Hits Counter) - shorten a web address
Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer (http://www.webconfs.comURLnchor-text-analysis.php) - check link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbite

Keyword related
Keyword Verification (Search Engine Placement Check - Marketleap Search Engine Verification Tool) - checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword
Keyword Density Analyser (Mark Horrell - Keyword density analyser) - another SEO tools for keywords
Keyword Cloud (Keyword Cloud - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - a visual representation of keywords used on a website
Keyword Density (Keyword Density - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - another SEO tool for checking keyword density
Keyword Difficulty Check (Keyword Difficulty Check - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or phrases
Keyword Optimizer (Keyword Optimizer - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) - optimizer your keywords with this tool
Keyword Suggestion (Keyword Suggestion Tool) - Find related keywords matching your search


Sitemap related
XML-Sitemaps (Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator) - Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML)
Gsitecrawler (Google Sitemap Generator for Windows :: GSiteCrawler) - Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows
Validate XML Sitemap (Google XML Sitemap Validator - XML Sitemaps Generator) - Search Engine Optimizion Tool for validating your xml sitemaps