Do you optimise your sites? (part guide, part open forum)

[Durinthiam]

If you own a website, do you optomise it for search engines? if so did you pay for it or did you work things out for yourself and go from there?
Personally I have never run an ad based site or a site based on hits from random searchers, until now. I am currently coding a project due for release in the summer they key to optimisation

Find a unique, rememberal URL like "iknow", "didyouknow", "canyou". Basically anything that has subdomain possibilites for creating a network of thinks like
cars.iknow.com for car reviews
news.iknow.com for news from around the world

Think of a project and figure out how to do it.


Do you even have meta tags in your site? have you submitted to the biggest search engines? (google and yahoo are by far the leaders in search hits).

I've run some test for LinuxServerTalk and cant see the result for the forums, so soulwatcher get this bad boy submitted to google, grab an adsense banner and start making yourself some (albeit small) revenue on the site.

Have you joined a toplist?
Toplists, with enough sites on them can be a great source of site hits, especially if your users coming from X search engine, vote for you and users from topsites click on your search engine adverts. Its a happy little cycle

Optimise vbulletin for search engines Google/yahoo with this hack:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...&highlight=SEO
and
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...&highlight=SEO
Ok I'll stop blabbing