| Yes you can brag about your mad design skills and | | | | have 'SEO' in their categories, you should read those |
| your flashy site effects, but are people actually | | | | as well (like this article you are reading now). |
| visiting your site? No matter how amazing you site | | | | You should also join SEO forums and groups and |
| looks like but if nobody even know about it and you | | | | take part in the conversations and take notes from |
| are the only one visiting your site, it'll just be like a | | | | tips and tricks people share on the boards. |
| Mosa Lisa inside your room. | | | | Use SEO tools that are readily available online. There |
| Why is it important? | | | | are a lot of tools out there but you can start by |
| There are three basic things that every site needs to | | | | using the free ones first and if you think you can |
| have, a good design (site layout), good functionality | | | | afford more advanced software and you already |
| (programming) and good traffic (site visits). A site | | | | know the basics, it'll be a good investment. |
| may look good without a need for it to be database | | | | Practice. Try out doing on page optimization, submit |
| driven or written in ASP/PHP. A site may have | | | | your site to directories and check your stats every |
| complete and working programming capabilities. But a | | | | now and then. Soon you will see people visiting your |
| site that is unknown to people not good for business. | | | | site from search engine results. You may soon realize |
| All websites are designed / developed for one | | | | that the more backlinks you build the more popular |
| common purpose: to be known. Whether you are | | | | your site will be. |
| trying to sell something, make people join your cause, | | | | What happens next? |
| or just for plain showoff, you need people to visit | | | | After weeks and months of practice, you will learn |
| your site. | | | | that SEO is not that hard as you think. All you need |
| What do you need to do? | | | | to know are the target keywords, a database of link |
| Read books (download online or from a bookstore) | | | | submission sites and a lot of time and patience to |
| about SEO. Aaron's book, the SEO Book is a very | | | | submit to as many sites as possible. |
| good book to start learning SEO. Article sites also | | | | |