3] The keyword rich title tag should appear in every page of your site. You can also include your company’s or business name at the end of the title tag and make it more valuable.

One of the ways to get this done is to use articles to obtain guest blogging opportunities. However, these opportunities are a lot like being published in the local papers. There are a lot of “no’s” and a person needs thick skin to find a person who will accept the author as a guest blogger. This is because any good will that the blog owner has generated is transferred to the other writer. This can seriously hurt the blog owner if the other person is not a stickler for quality at all. Therefore, there will always be a lot more “no’s” than “yes’s” when looking for publicity on the internet.

So EVEN IF you do get to the top, it will just make your competition try that much harder to knock you back down a peg or two. So you end up in a vicious cycle where you and your direct (and indirect) competitors are jockeying back and forth for first position. Whoever spends the most time (spelled M-O-N-E-Y) on SEO wins. At least for a time, just so long as no one else spends a little more than they do. So even if you get to the top, you can bet, you won’t stay there for long.

If a local business owner spent ten hours a week or so trying to stay on top of the local SEO news, he or she might be able to stay on page one of organic listings and Google Places. But that would assume that they are spending even more time or money actually implementing the strategies they learn about.

Conversion Analysis – Of course, with any business, you are in it to make money. While it is okay and natural to lose money on some of your SEO strategies, it is also important that you do not lose money on a long term basis. You must have a positive Return on Investment, and you must be implementing procedures that will create a positive ROI. Web analytics is a great tool to help you determine which SEO strategies work and which ones do not. Remember that just because something works for someone else, it may not work for you. Vice versa, a strategy that works for you, may not work for someone else. The key here is to test every strategy first and see where it takes you!

Proper timing is key, so send these in the morning instead of the evening. Especially if your targets are highly competitive, Pinterest you have to get there before your competition does.

If you are still struggling with this problem, here are four SEO tips that will help you get over that hump, and into the top spot. If nothing else, it should bring a feeling of great satisfaction. Hopefully, it will also mean that you will use this success with the search engines to make more money from home, using the Internet.

Be their guru, do everything you would do for yourself and more, show initiative. But most of all, listen to what the client wants, even if what they want isn’t exactly what they need, do it anyway, and help them see what will really help.