involving your site in schemes where your content is artificially promoted to the top of these services.

Well, Google’s loosing their theory of what’s appreciated by the crowd should be genuine? Because there are now plenty of paid and exchange-based digg (just example!) voting programs, and they are getting smarter and smarter.

Since there are no faultless way to find out if the Page made it to big social media exposure by paying for it. Google is no longer value Social Media links? I think they have smarter approach to that.
I can only assume that if they see a Page that appears to be on every major social media website, and it has:

• Commercial matter of a Page
• Little links from major directories
• Small PageRank compared to other pages in the same category
• Social Media exposure (all at once or randomly over time)
• The domain was yet given major exposure @ The Internet (backlinks)

Then they slap those websites. So the best way to get most out of social media links – is to act smooth. Expose your Site/Page on different Social Media services with a time delay.

With all the troubled economy nowadays you can be pretty sure that lots of people are trying to find ways to cut on spending. It shouldn’t be a surprise to find more people now searching more for “cheap SEO”, “budget SEO”, “affordable quality SEO”, etc. Take advantage of this fact and offer solutions (promos for SEOs and informative posts for SEO blogs).

Another simple example would be industry events. Of course people within your industry will already know about upcoming events but it is still a good idea to mention big events, even if just in passing. It will not only show that you are aware of what’s going on but visitors who might have overlooked it or forgot about it will be happy to be informed. Doing a blow-by-blow of the event is also recommended but only if you really attended it and there’s new and interesting information to convey. Otherwise stick to summarizing stuff and don’t forget to link to your sources.

Remember it is very important to stay relevant. Your page may rank really well for your targeted keywords but if people have started searching for other keywords then you’ll still end up with no one visiting your site.

Purists on both sides of the argument will say their approach is far superior to the other. For the content sites they can judge their success through keyword strategies that are observable in long-term site rankings. For the non-content sites they can observe keywords or phrases being used to determine site rankings from a more technical source in behind-the-scenes code.

So, which is the better approach?

Both.

This really is a matter of being able to have your cake and eat it too. You can maximize SEO strategies in the coding on your site while infusing your website with knowledge based original content. The combination of these two strategies can work with greater efficiency than either strategy alone.

If you are ill equipped to manage coding then you should work tirelessly to incorporate knowledge based articles into your website.

The standard negative reply to this concept is when a business is primarily selling a product or service and do not feel original content really works with their online store.

If, for instance, your business sells blocks of gourmet cheese you could incorporate original articles on the various cheese offerings, their taste and texture and the history behind each cheese type. You could incorporate articles that provide recipes that include the cheese types you provide.

Hopefully you get the idea, by adding knowledge-based articles you can assist your site ranking, help your customer and minimize the need for coded SEO strategies until you learn how best to implement the non-content SEO.

There will always be a battle as to which SEO strategy is best, but I will go so far as to say the best strategy will be the one that includes both concepts to the best of the web owner’s capabilities.

While some want to make the issue an either/or decision it is really a both/and solution.

However you optimize your site, work to the best of your ability to implement strategies that work for you long-term. Too many strategies are short-term props that help you very little in the grand scheme of the life of your website.

After making your Website human friendly, you have to make it search engine friendly so that human searchers can easily find your site in the search engine result pages. By following the steps described below, you can optimize your Website for search engines.

1. Use a keyword research tool for mining keywords related to your site’s offerings. One of the most effective and free keyword research tool is Google Adwords Keyword tool, register on AdWords to get the better one.

You start with some broad keywords like “golf ball” and the tool lists all the related keywords people use in their search queries related to “golf ball”. The tool also displays the monthly volumes of those search queries.

2. Get a domain name that is not too long and has relevancy to the products or services your site is offering. Using the keyword research tool, pick a few keywords related to your site. Pick a domain name based on one of these keywords.

All the domains based on broad keywords are already sold out. So you cannot get a domain based on a broad keyword, like golf ball. If you find one, grab it without any delay. However, most domain registrars, like Godaddy, have domain finding tools that suggest available domains based on broad keywords.

3. Your Website title that is located in the HTML TITLE tag should be meaningful and at the same time it should contain related keywords. Limit the title tag to 50 characters so that is is not truncated in the search result page.

4. The most important meta tag in a web page for a search engine crawler is the description meta tag that has two attributes: NAME=”description” and CONTENT=”your site’s content”. Describe your site’s contents using a few sentences in the content attribute of the META tag. Your site description should contain related keywords.

5. Create quality content using text and graphics. Use short paragraphs for text and separate texts using headings or H1 tag, and sub headings or H2 tags. Use one H1 tag per page. Don’t forget to use keywords in your paragraphs, H1, and H2 tags.

Use plenty of white spaces and bulleted items so that visitors can scan your page easily. Most people don’t read web pages but they scan to find texts that are of particular interest to them.

6. If you are using images, use keywords in the ALT and TITLE attributes of the IMG tag. Use keywords for image file names. Most people use meaningless image file names like image1, image2, etc. Search engine crawlers have no way to understand what image1 and image2 are all about.  This is actually very good way to get some traffic from image search!

7. Cross links your web pages using keywords in the anchor texts. For example, if your web site is about golf ball, you can use anchor text “callaway golf ball” on your home page to direct visitors to a page dedicated to “callaway golf ball”.

Search engine optimization is the art of creating contents for human readers using keywords. Don’t create contents for search engines. Create contents for human and use keywords strategically placed in your contents for the consumption of search engine crawlers.