8 tips to improve your SEO now

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8 Tips to Improve Your SEO Now

Stop languishing in a dark corner of the World Wide Web. Grab your developer and go through this

checklist to start getting more traffic.

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Is your website living in a dark corner of the Web? That's no place for a fledgling start-up, let alone

a company that has already proved its merit in the marketplace. Languishing on the fringes of the

Internet means customers are not finding your site, and they are not finding your products and

services.

Adding metatag keywords is no longer enough to draw Web visitors. What follows are tips

designed to produce real results. My recommendation? Go through them one by one with your

Web programmer and make sure you have hit them all. Then, track the before and after.Post in

comments if you see real results.

1. Stuff your keywords naturally.

Experts in search engine optimization say an important step is to load the beginning of an article

with keywords. Joel Gross, the founder and CEO of Coalition Technologies, a Los Angeles- and

Seattle-based Web design and marketing firm, says you should load keywords naturally, not in any

repeating and obvious pattern. If you're writing about the iPhone, make sure you mention the

device up front--don't bury the topic. Repeat these same natural language keywords in the tags.

2. Fix your content and let it age.