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If you thought of a question, chances are it's probably been asked before. Use the search engines! Luckily the SEO optimizations and methods require no costs if you do it yourself. Even the experts have conflicting views what is "best" but there's a few things that will help you more than anything. To establish influence an reach to your intended audience all you need is time. If what you have is really unique and useful it'll eventually the people. Assuming your content is good, you'll eventually get to a cycle in which: people link you, your ranks go higher, you get more people, even more people link you, repeat. The greatest cost is time.

-- Simple Tips --
1. Avoid frames.
2. Work hard building content.
3. Organize the content into an easy to read and navigate interface.
4. Optimize your site so it's fast loading(graphics and layout).
5. Separate content into smaller subsections.
6. Have the text large enough to read confortably.
7. Do not overwhelm the viewer with too much text at once.
8. The first text(non link) on the site should be what the site is about.


-- More People --
1. Actively update your site.
2. Create a means of communication so you can get feedback.
3. Go to Google and search a keyword relating to your site. Find friends.
4. Analyze the content of similar sites. Find how to be unique.
5. Continue to subdivide and organize until maximum simplicity is attained.
6. Exchange links requesting the link be a reasonably attainable keyword.


-- Resources --
Google: Guidelines
Google: Facts
Google: SEO Tips
Yahoo: FAQ and Help
Yahoo: Basics
SEO Articles: SEO Chat
Webmaster Forum: Webmaster World
Webmaster Forum: Webproworld
Webmaster Forum: Webmaster Talk
Webmaster Forum: Ozzu


-- Submit --

auto:
http://ez2find.com/channel/add_url.php
http://submitplus.bc.ca/freeprograms.php?b=loadtest
http://www.add-url-free.com/freesubmitter.htm
http://submitexpress.com/submit.html


Official:
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/default
http://www.mixcat.com/addurl.php
http://www.jdgo.com/add.html
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
http://www.gigablast.com/addurl
http://www.entireweb.com/addurl
http://www.websquash.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?Mode=AnonAdd
http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Directory:
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://dir.yahoo.com/
http://www.zeal.com/
http://www.wowdirectory.com/
http://www.bluefind.com/
http://www.goguides.org/
http://www.skaffe.com/
http://www.joeant.com/


Paid:
https://www.google.com/adsense/
http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/index.jhtml
https://secure.ah-ha.com/guaranteed_inclusion/teaser.aspx
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?+Business
https://secure.ah-ha.com/guaranteed_inclusion/teaser.aspx?network=dogpile
http://www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml
http://insite.lycos.com/
http://listings.looksmart.com/index.jhtml?chan=odm009

In Conclusion

Content is king. If you already have a massive site it may be best to pay. It'll get you more frequent updating. In order to not shut down the site from so many requests search engines moderate their behavior by IP. If your host can support it you can get multiple IPs for subsections of your site in order for the crawlers to deeply scan though your information. Forums and interactive sections really help. Since most of your weight comes from backlinks and most people link you by your domain keywords a domain with targeted keywords will definitely help in placement. The domain also has to be relatively short and easy to remember. It's not very well known but the people who handle ALL the domain name in their database are a company called Network Solutions so get your domains directly from them rather than some reseller. To minimize work load try not to have so many images and external objects. The the timeout lower than the 300 default in apache. Be sure to anticipate! A little thought now can save you a lot of work later.

-- Tools --
http://www.widexl.com/remote/link-popularity/index.html
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
http://www.keywordcount.com/
http://www.gorank.com/research/_Google_Density_Report.php