I would like to write this blog for webmasters those have not heard about search engine optimization. I have inspired this blog from my first two month with my seo career.

If you are a webmaster that hearing about seo for the first time but you don’t have enough time to learn more about seo nor more money to hire a company to seo your website then this blog is for you. I will teach you how you can spend few hours going through few steps to get almost instant (less than one month) results in the search engine results, especially if your website is more than two years of age:

1- Make sure that your website is indexed by search engines, you can do that using the search operator site:www.yoursite.com ,if find more than 50% of your pages in the search engine index so you are good go to step 2, if not you may be need more link popularity (I would take about it) or you need to adjust your navigation.; No matter what you are using for your navigation just make sure to have a text link navigation in the footer of your website and a text links site map that linked from all your website pages.

2- Do keyword research to identify the keywords those people use find your business, you can use free tools for that like overture.

3- Choose the highest search volume keywords in step 2 and try to find pages in your website includes those keywords, try to target no more than two keywords per page and use your home page to target the most competitive keyword.

4- When you finish step 3, make sure that the title for each page you have chosen to target your keywords include those keywords, if you don’t know what is the title tag, it looks like this in your HTML code:

The four steps mentioned above should not take you more than few hours to be implemented, but the traffic that you will get upon implementing them will defiantly pays off for your time.

Inbound links upon their quality/relevancy/quantity still the main factor that control you site’s ranking with search engines, hover link building is the nastiest job in the seo process, it time/money consumer, you can spend as much as you want of time/money and still no guarantees for the results.Assuming you are new for the web and you still in the faze of investing your money on the web, you are building new websites to monetize or to promote your business, and you don’t want spend extra money on your link building campaign, here is some ways to do effective link building with zero money spending:

1- Assuming you do know about the business you are running, so you can write useful article about it, well then write 400+ word articles and go syndicate it on www.ezinearticles.com .. don’t waste time to syndicate it on hundreds of articles websites, you don’t need more links from duplicated document, besides many websites use www.ezinearticles.com content, so you will get your article distributed on hundred of websites just when you syndicate it on www.ezinearticles.com , take use of the contextual linking possibility and use some keyword in the third part of your article to link to your website. To check how many people publish your article on their website search Google for the exact title of your article (use “article title”), do that 10 days after www.ezinearticles.com approve your article.

2- Forums threads/signature, almost for any niche you will find a popular forum, in forums you can post links in your thread, you can also use your signature to include link to your website, relevant forum is good source for inbound links, just remember to be useful in your contributions not spammy.

3- Free directories, they still have some value, have a list of quality ones and start submitting your website, you can take use of some offers on forums to people offer free directory listing for free with a high approving rate such as the announcement category in Digital Point Forum

4- Links exchange, it has not died yet as many people telling, just be selective, mind the quality and relevancy and you will find good benefits in terms of traffic/ranking.

5- Ask for link (link begging), to do this you really have to have good content on your website this many webmasters on the web might be willing to link to it cause it really add value to their website, if your content is super good most likely you will get the links without asking for them, if they are just good it doesn’t harm to ask some webmasters to link to you, just remember to be polite, don’t use canned messages and finally don’t spam them.

If you do the five previous techniques on continues basis you will definitely witness an improvement in your ranking/traffic and the will work for you for competitive keywords not just for low competition ones (I hope you are not trying those techniques for terms like “car insurance” where nothing will help but spending hundred of thousands buying links)