my website looses ranking what to do for SEO?

[LonestarG]

My stupid Boss is firing me because our website decreased. I changed the website since the first website was really bad and the first designer spammed all over and there were a lot of untitled webpages and there was not content management system our new website has a better look but somehow at first days when i submitted the site map it got higher ranking and then it began loosing it. I am not sure if my website is even getting indexed but with some keywords i can see it on the 4th or 5th page. I tried to add some back-links but my stupid boss is not giving money so i can submit the website to some high ranking directories.
No i get less calls but i see a good traffic to my website not like before. I pinged, and tried to renew articles and content also write blogs which apparently working other thing that i like to know is My designer created a file so google robots will not follow the old links is that a good idea or i should have created a 404 page? - or 303? How can i improve the site ranking in a week,!!! i have till 30th~

[Jake]

Sounds like it is all academic at this point, the most beautiful site is not necessarily the best ranking, Flash based sites are renowned for being ranking poison, since many search spiders can't read the content.
You should not throw away any earned incoming links, except those from 'bad neighbors' like p0rn and file sharing sites. After a site redesign or relocation it may be necessary to redirect links to non-exsting pages to the new replacement pages using 301 redirects, these permanent redirects are fine with search engines and at least for a time transfer the link juice to the new content. Google ranking is always dancing around, trying to follow it on a daily basis can drive you crazy, the may give a new site better ranking for a short while to just test the user response, before applying it's longer term ranking.
Thee are only a few premium directories worth buying into, they just don't have the ranking power they once had. Negotiating to write guest articles for influential blogs can be as good an investment these days, an in article body link in more respected than one of 50 links on a directory page.

One SEO primer: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
the seomoz blog has many advanced tutorials that can help one gain a sense of perspective, their Whiteboard Fridays videos are quite accessible.

[Benedict XVI]

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[Naomi]

With respect to just posts on the site, this page has some great tips for gaining and holding viewer attention:
http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog-p...ention.htm

As for promoting the website, these articles have a seriously helpful and diverse range of ideas as to how to optimize through your content and promote with other websites:
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-basic-...010-1?op=1
http://www.rss-specifications.com/promote-your-blog.htm

Last of all, you may want to consider working with keyword effectiveness index (KEI) values to help you determine which keywords to concentrate on so as to optimize your company's site. You can start doing some reading on KEI scores here:
http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com...icator.php


Hope this helps, and good luck! These things take time, but if you really apply yourself and work hard, you may begin to see results.