SEO for Fools and Dummies 7:44 AM 4/17/2012 I still see a lot of people offering submission services, and I still get a lot of people asking me if I can submit them to the search engines as part of my credit repair service, so I'm writing this article just to point out to those who're not yet aware - that you don't need to submit your site to the search engines. and you don't need a Large add campaign to get traffic to your site, you can get this all for free with a little time and effort. Everything else about SEO is pretty useless if you don't get your web pages on the search engines, so of course you need to be indexed on Google and the other main search engines, but you don't need to submit to get indexed. In fact, submitting would take a lot longer than the way you're about to learn. Just get a backlink to your new website, from a website which is already indexed such as my site, and the search engine bots will follow your link next time the page is crawled. Simple enough. no, Everyone wants to get on page 1 of a google search and how do we do that, Google says "page rank, backlinks, key words, etc. etc. All this SEO bull-shit that you can spend countless hrs. trying to figure out and still no success. This is my opinion of how google works. If your looking for a deal or want to make a purchase of some sort stay off of google page 1. go to page 20 or 30 that's where the deals are, page 1 is for suckers, all the big time advertising is there "PPC" pay-per-click, adsence, impressions, bounce rate. You dont have to be a genius to figure out what's going on. Advertising dollars get you on page 1 and most people never even check out page 2 and forget about page3. You can now get a seo tool from alexa and find out what your competitors add budget is, the average PPC for the heading Credit Repair for google is about $1.00-$1.20 that's what google charges every time someone clicks on my link in the credit repair search, "screw that" Most web sites fail simply due to low traffic and what can you do about that: here is your choices, advertise on google and get screwed by your competitors who have a group of people that just keep clicking on your link until your add campaign money allotted for the day is used up and guess what, the same three people clicked on your link 50 times and it cost you $50.00 Or you can spend the time and effort and build backlinks and post them on your home page and sitemap, If i have 5 good links on a home page that get me 10 hits a day I just got 50 hits for free that google wants to charge $50.00 for. Get the point. That is what you should be doing with your site's SEO and this technique works, eventually all the major search engines will index your site and your page rank will increase without spending a dime. my next post will be about just how to go about doing this the right way and what help you can get from other sites. how to find out what links are driving traffic to your site, sitemaps and a few other topics. and if your interested in a backlink to my site... read more Remember: The better link popularity of the site linking to you, the quicker the backlink is likely to get you indexed. (check the google pagerank tool for a PR2 or higher website, to get indexed within a week or so) Ensure that it's not a no-follow link. Some links, especially within blog replies, are set to nofollow, you don't want them - it means the crawlers will not follow the link to find your site. You can use tools such as the SEO for firefox addon for the mozilla firefox browser, to highlight nofollow links. & don't forget, you need your sub pages to be indexed too. Building a sitemap & registering this with Google, is a good way to ensure that all of your sub pages are indexed, but just having a good navigation system on your website will also do it. Article Source: http://screwedup-credit-repair.com