The Great Big List of SEO Tips

On Tuesday, the launch day of DailySEOTip.com, I asked various SEO’s to send us their SEO tips by twittering about them with a reply back to my Twitter profile. Ask and you shall receive!
This fabulous group of Twitter using SEO’s replied back with some excellent tips for us to start up our TGIF Tips, where on Fridays DailySEOTip.com turns over our SEO tip of the day to you, the reader. Today’s goal is to build a grand list of simple and useful SEO Tips, which can be contributed by anyone interested in the project.
All you have to do is comment in the comment field below this blogpost. Our goal is to have over 100 cool tips and replies in the comments by the end of the day! So get Commenting (remember, comments include DoFollow links and can link to your latest blog post!)
So, to get this party with this list of juicy SEO tips as Twittered by our friends! And be sure to follow all of these great people on Twitter.
joehall @lorenbaker SEO TIP: start using microformats, they are going to be important in the future for identifying important content.
weboptimist @lorenbaker When an image and a text link point to the same URL, nofollow the image link to give link credit to the keyword rich text link.
askbillmitchell @lorenbaker use inurl: blog, .gov, edu in Google to find blogs hosted on .edu .gov TLD participate in their discussion to get quality back links
kalena @lorenbaker SEO Rule 1 – ask the client what goal they want to achieve. If unrealistic convince them to change goal. If realistic, exceed it
Burnsie_SEO @lorenbaker: SEO Tip. Always have a site map. Be sure it is in the root directory and has a text link to it from all pages of the site
Burnsie_SEO @lorenbaker SEO Tip. Ne sure your title tag is different for each page. Use you keywords in title tag that are relevant to that page
Burnsie_SEO @lorenbaker:SEO Tip. Use your page focus keywords as your page URL name. Keyword-keyword-keyword. HTML
OneChicBoutique @lorenbaker SEO Tip/websites take a long time to show in Google Search/Make a myspace for your website/Google crawls Myspace with in days!
kristyann @lorenbaker Don’t forget the visitor. You can optimize for the SERP’s all you want, but if the content isn’t there the visitors won’t return
sitemost @lorenbaker Before embarking on any SEO campaign, set clear goals and perform a usability audit. Otherwise all the traffic and exposure you get from your SEO campaign will be wasted
Skitzzo @lorenbaker my tip would be… make it easy for people to link to you the way you want (with optimized anchor tags).
sizzler_chetan @lorenbaker Put keywords or key phrases in Image ALT attributes to make your images rank better in Search engines.
Remember to leave your SEO Tip (or more than one) in the comments below!
Note : If you check out Andrew’s comment below you’ll see that he just summarized one of his blog posts and dropped a link to it. You can do that too!

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