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Worth Watching! Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) speaks the truth! http://tinyurl.com/3yvwue

New: You can now store an XML Sitemap (re: www.sitemaps.org) for a domain anywhere. You must simply verify it's location in Robots.txt file.
Inbound Links (Definition): Links that point to your site from sites other than your own. - http://www.onlinemedia.co.i...
Search Engines rank sites using a number of criteria. Most Important are in-bound links and keywords found both on page and in linking text.
Content is less about keywords and more about value to the visitor. Reason: valuable content draws links & SEs use links heavily 4 ranking.
Meta tags weight on search rankings is minimal (though not non-existent). Also, the description tag is often used in the Search Results.
Matt Cutts says, "we (Google) don't penalize sites if they have syntax errors or don't validate". http://tinyurl.com/yr2skb
By re-writing dynamic URLs (referred to as a “mod re-write”) a cleaner looking more search engine friendly static URL is generated.
Local Directory Listings can put you at the top of the search engines. Literally. http://tinyurl.com/2xa9q2
The art of keyword research is to find non-competitive yet highly searched key phrases. Here is a good tool, http://tinyurl.com/qkfuh
Never use an image for text. Text content is the primary source that Search Engines use to determine what keywords are relevant to a page.
Title tags should put unique phrases first instead of company name. Example, "Widgets are Cool - Company Name"
Copying content from other websites can cause you to be penalized by the SEs. It's ok to quote someone but don't make that all you do.
Use your Keyword / Keyphrase in a web page's title tag, header tags, page file name, and in the content a few times. But don't be excessive.
Grab Bonus Keywords: Example, if main key is “dog pics” then add “cute”or “fluffy” to grab bonus keys while not diluting main keyword theme. ...
Try to focus on just one keyword theme per web page. Targeting too many keywords per page dilutes the keyword relevancy.
Search Engines primarily determine the rank of a web page based on the number & quality of links it receives from other websites.
Use text links in Footer to reinforce keyword themes of important pages. Footer links also increases your sites ability to be indexed.
Replace tables with CSS layouts. CSS allows the flexibility to move important content above otherwise redundant page elements in the code.
Use simple text links. Text links can utilize keywords in anchor text which reinforce the keyword theme of the page to which they link.