SEO strategies. I need help!!?

[John Wand]

Write good content
This is maybe the most important strategy of all. If your pages contain good, relevant, useful content, search engines will be more likely to rank your page higher for relevant searches. As an added benefit, good content will encourage more sites to link to your pages, thereby further increasing your search engine ranking.

Do your keyword research
Don't target a keyphrase just because it sounds right to you, or because it gets a lot of searches.

Use your keywords wisely
Once you have a good list of keyphrases, deploy them sensibly throughout your site pages.

Get other sites linking to yours
Most search engines rank sites more highly if they're linked to by other, well-respected sites.

The key here is "well-respected". Just getting linked to from hundreds of reciprocal link pages is not going to do much for your ranking. Target a few relevant, good-quality sites and directories that are full of useful info and rank well on the search engines, and try to get a link back from them.

Structure your site for SEO
Your site structure can play an important part in optimizing your pages. Make sure your pages contain plenty of links to other important pages in your site, and that it's easy to get to all sections of your site via your homepage or navigation menu.

Analyse your site
It's important to track your site's SEO performance so that you can see if your efforts are paying off. Make use of the many free analysis tools

Keep abreast of the latest SEO news
Search engine algorithms change constantly, and it pays to keep up to date with the latest changes and SEO strategies.

Avoid black hat techniques
SEO techniques come in 2 forms:

White hat techniques play by the rules of the search engines, and aim to create high-quality, relevant content.
Black hat techniques attempt to "game" the search engines by using techniques such as keyword stuffing (overusing keywords in a page), hidden text, and cloaking (presenting different versions of a page to real visitors and search engines).
Black hat SEO techniques can sometimes produce a short-term hike in traffic; however such sites invariably get weeded out — or, worse, banned altogether — by the search engines. Black hat SEO simply isn't worth the risk if you want to build a long-term stream of traffic from search engines.