Seasoned SEO Consultant very easy to work with. I'll examine your site and give you the next level of optimization steps to search engine compliance and better rankings without obligation or commitment. Just contact me. Optimizing websites since 1997 then forming First Place Positioning in 2001, I have been helping to knock down the the major SEO issues that were preventing the search engines from fully indexing my client sites for their top keyword rankings. ... http://www.squidoo.com/improved-seo-rankings Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:03:38 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Sat, 10 May 2008 21:57:41 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/improved-seo-rankings Seasoned SEO Consultant very easy to work with. I'll examine your site and give you the next level of optimization steps to search engine compliance and better rankings without obligation or commitment. Just contact me. Optimizing websites since 1997 then forming First Place Positioning in 2001, I have been helping to knock down the the major SEO issues that were preventing the search engines from fully indexing my client sites for their top keyword rankings.  A top ranking can make a huge difference in profits if proper keyword(s) are selected. Take advantage of a totally free consult and get instant answers to what's holding your site back . FirstPlacePositioning.com SEO Philadelphia PA 800-430-0205 Here is a general list of actions or areas of marketing and optimization I've found to work well. Key areas of successful search engine optimization and marketing processes have been identified and streamlined With that said, Social Media/Marketing (or Web 2.0) is now playing a much larger role in web users search behavior and the avenues of getting your company's message and news information out there into the targeted masses is seemingly limitless. Website Areas of Search Engine Optimization - With many factors coming into play for achieving top rankings, your site pages are compared against 100 ranking criteria to determine the optimization level and the areas of needed improvement. This may consist of a whole range of issues all with proper solutions. Site Quality Check, Search Engine Compliance and Validation - Performing a site quality check is the first thing to do, testing for proper validation and determining exactly what the search engine spiders are seeing is an important first step to clean and optimize code for the search engines. Required corrections and opportunities to improve performance are employed. This will begin to allow the search engines to better index your pages and keyword content. Navigational Link Improvement for Spider-ability - The presence of image maps and other barriers will have workarounds applied so the search engines are able to read and index all your pages.The use of proper linking on your most important site pages will be created for optimal indexing and spider-ability. Keyword Research and Discovery - In doing in-depth keyword research and discovery we will find the most popular, least competitive keyword phrases in your industry utilizing WordTracker and other various keyword data across the web. Time tested strategies are used in finding these highly profitable 'hidden gems' that will make all the difference in your successful search engine optimization campaign. Unique Titles and Meta Tags - This is where the bulk of the work comes in as we’ll map all your researched keywords to the proper web pages and hand edit the program code optimizing your targeted phrases throughout the title, description, keyword tag, body text and images for each individual page. A keyword set for each web page is developed to help each one pull it’s own weight in regards to achieving top rankings. All of your optimized pages and their keyword-rich content become easily accessible to the search engine robots when optimized correctly.  This will help get your site ranked at the top of the search engines for your targeted business keywords for each individual page. Directory Submissions - will be performed as your site and targeted keyword phrases will be manually submitted to over 100 of the Internets best search engine friendly web directories dramatically increasing your targeted link popularity. We do not perform automatic software submissions as this has been known to actually hurt your search engine rankings. Directories change often and are updated regularly. Here is a current sample list of high page rank directories: DMOZ (Open Directory), Accoona, Changing Links, Jayde, Canlinks, Cipinet, Info-Listings, ScrubTheWeb, Turnpike, SearchSight, SearchWho, Aardvarkbusiness, Big Finder, Illumirate, Infignos, Info Tiger, Mavicanet, Mixcat, Network Room, Pedsters Planet, Please Retrieve and up to a complete set of 100. Social Media (Web 2.0) Marketing & Promotion - Social media marketing is utilized, bookmarking sites, content sharing media sites, video marketing and development, etc.  The demographic of social media users are more in the range of 35-49, not just kids anymore.  It has become an important part of business strategy including to faster and better rankings on the search engines. Plus, targeted traffic form the media site itself.  Focused selection not broad promotion is the best suggestion here. I'll try add more later but it's always better to call or email me for more info . . . Sat, 10 May 2008 21:57:41 -0600