The Latest SEO tips and Techniques – 25 shortly SEO tips for a website long life By Anne-Marie RONSEN When you think about SEO, what do you think of first? Which aspects of SEO are important, which are essential, and which ones can you take or leave? You be the judge.   Search Engine Optimization is an enormous topic and one of the most effective tool that can bring a prospective customer to your website.  That takes a lot of time, effort, research and skill to become a master of.   Before you begin to develop your own strategy and implementation plan to optimize your website for improved page ranking, you have to reflect on what is the major objective of this initiative.   With better knowledge of search engines and how they work, you can also do it on your own.   Here's a 25 shortly tips and techniques:   1.         Make sure your site is fully operational before you have it submitted – Do NOT submite a site that is under construction or having just one page.   2.         Submit the domain or URL that have content in the corect format (http://www.mydomain.com - some directories accept it without http://)   3.         Do NOT submit domains that redirect to another site   4.         Create a good website for users, NOT  for search engines. Do NOT present different content to search engines that you display to your users   5.         Avoid the Hype, Rants, Whining, and Speculation   6.            Selecting the most relevant category for your site. Don’t make the mistake of selecting the category too fast without checking if there would be a more relevant category. Take the time and choose the most appropriate category.   7.         The links should ideally be optimized for the keywords that you want your site ranked for. Search engines utilize keywords or key phrases to identify web pages which are relevant to these terms. So, use the right keywords and keywords phrases.   8.         Use relevant words in your title text and avoid words like “leader”, “greatest”, “best”, “cheapest” or any other exaggerated adjective.   9.         You should have researched your keywords well and chosen those that are minimally competed for but adequately searched.   10.       Don’t overstuff the anchor text – your title text for each page should be clearly defined with relevant keywords.   11.       Don’t use generic terms to optimize your website. You will not improve your ranking at all. It is important that you select keywords which are not improve your ranking at all. It is importantthat you select keywords wich are not overused and aptly describe (in a few words) what the site is about.   If you don't have accurate details regarding SEO, then you might make a bad choice on the subject. Don't let that happen: keep reading.   12.       Select words or phrases that target a niche segment. Use the advanced tools available to create a list of relevant keywords which do not attract too much competition in your niche segment.   13.       Check for broken links and correct HTML and avoid hidden text or hidden links.   14.            Building links – which are effectively optimized – is essential to gain more traffic and obtain a high ranking on search engines.   15.       To avoid your submission from being rejected, don’t make your title and description sound too promotional. Make sure that your TITLE AND ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.   16.       Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Search Engines crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in images.   17.       Do NOT mention in your description “and others” or “etc.” Or even “...”   18.       Include the email address of your site domain NOT a free account like yahoo, hotmail or gmail.   19.       Is essential to test your robots.txt file. Robots.txt file crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled.   20.       Use relevant keywords in your title text and anchor text can improve your search engine placement   21.       Don’t repeat any keywords more than once   22.       Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substanially duplicate content. Provide unique, relevant and fresh content to your users with a good grammar, correct spelling, and sentence structure.   23.       Do NOT submmit sites that instal viruses, trojans, or other badware.   24.       Submit your site to relevant premier search engines and in the top directory such as the Open Directory Project, Yahoo, Google!   25.       Make the best of directories by carefully submitting your links in the first place. Once your site has been accepted, it may be extremely difficult to change any of the mather submitted.    I hope that reading the above information was both enjoyable and educational for you. Stay up-to-date on SEO methods, techniques, skills, news – And Think Like a Winner! ******************************************************** Anne-Marie Ronsen is the author of many wealth and self development books for women.  Download FREE e-books and software from http://www.e-bestsellers.com , http://www.PLRbestsellers.com  or http://www.UniversalPublishingltd.com  … You will learn about the best tips and recommendations  to improve your health, weight and wealth.  You'll also discover how you can get a top position that will mean loads of traffic, recognition and sales for you and your business.