SEO is the most important thing you have to keep in mind when you start blogging. Optimizing your content and using the right keywords can bring you huge benefits and also it can make your job a lot easier and fun. SEO is very complex and it has lots of adapters, finding keywords for your content is without a doubt one of the most important things when we talk about SEO.

Even though keywords are very important, not many people know how to find best combination in order to get best results. The keywords research is very important for PPC campaings too and that means lots of money can easily be earned by doing a good keyword research.

Some sites have it tough. If you are building a site such as Flickr, or are a photographer wondering how to get better  exposure (pun not intended) for your images via search engines, you are generally up against it. With the majority of your content being visual, it’s harder to get a decent rank on Google.

Here’s a few SEO tips which you can apply to images within your website to gain better traction within Google image search.

Alot of these can be applied to any website, but I’ve primarily focused on image related seo for this article.

Firefox addons are a great way to ease the work of a web designer or web developer. Here is compilation of some addons useful for Search Engine Optimization for your webpage/website.

RankQuest SEO Toolbar – This toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations.

WordPress out of the box comes SEO friendly, however there are many tweaks you can make to further optimize it for search engines.   We recently covered  10 important tips to optimize wordpress for search engines, however this post will go more in-depth and offering further optimization tips.

Here are a number of  advanced tweaks and WordPress plugins you can install to help with URL structuring, search engine crawling, handling duplicate content, optimizing title and meta tags, images and internal linking.

Customers come to your site through search via search engines. Basic concepts that help make your site friendly to search engines such as Google include: crawlable relevant content, site organization, links – both internal and inbound from external sites, keyword use, and code optimization. But today, customers also look for new content on Twitter, Facebook, their favorite blogs and links. But those social sites do more than talk directly to customers – they “provide positive signals to search engines and affect search visibility.”1 That means to remain cutting edge and maximize your searchability you need to go beyond the basic SEO concepts – you need to make your sites both “search and social media friendly

Many people are surprised to learn that YouTube is the second-largest search engine. Yep, it’s bigger than Yahoo and bigger than Bing, according to comScore. Therefore it is a shock to many search marketing professionals that clients, including large brands, neglect to formulate or act on strategies for YouTube optimization.

Of course, YouTube isn’t a perfect fit for every company, but anybody who does business online should consider taking advantage of the huge opportunities for brand impressions available on YouTube. Even if the product or service you sell might be considered dry or boring, think about creating a series of funny or interesting videos that relates indirectly to your core business.

Often when designing a website designers overlook some SEO tips and techniques that can improve the final website’s search engine results page rankings. In this blog post we’ll highlight 10 quick and easy SEO tips all designers should be using in their layouts.

When your site is up and running, it’s all good but if you don’t have any traffic, all your efforts will be in vain. There are many free and paid ways to drive traffic to your site and one of the best is through SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most important ingredients for getting large amounts of traffic to your website besides high-quality content. Because once your articles are a few weeks old, the majority of the traffic to those articles will come from search engines. That’s why it’s important to rank high in search engines.

In this article I’m going to show you 10 basic SEO tips that you should keep in mind when writing a new article or developing a new website to make sure your blog ranks high in the search engines.

It started very long time ago (to be exact December 27, 2008), when I created my first promotional article with 40 promotional links in it. Then I was just starting and I was excited, there exist such things like user news and sites like DesignBump or DesignFloat.

Time passed, and I needed to update my article, add more links, delete old ones because I have been promoting EVERY article in these sites. Now this promotional article consists of 70 sites, but again I wasn’t sure how all links work – I mean how much traffic they return. And now you will hear why this article is so outstanding and extremely valuable for every design-related blogger! Since I’ve been submitting all my article on those sites this whole time, I have also very precise statistics based on several months.