Guest Post Provided by Pierre Zarokian of Submit Express

Search engine optimization is a process wherein you place specific keywords in your articles or in your website to help you get on top of search engine rankings. If you have an online business and you want to improve traffic to make more money and to attract new customers, SEO is the answer.

One of the things that you should do to be on top of search engine rankings is to regularly monitor your current ranking. By doing this, you can protect your current standing and make necessary adjustments if needed to reach the top.

Another way for you to increase your ranking is to place keywords which relate to your website strategically on your pages and title tag. This will make you more SEO friendly. You should also be careful as to not to commit keyword stuffing to prevent the spiders from ignoring your website. In general using a keyword up to 3-5 times per 100 words is a good practice.

A very common SEO  strategy is link to your most important internal pages from your main page. This strategy will increase the traffic in your website, especially in pages where visitors rarely get in. You should also make sure that your site navigation can is spider friendly. A good practice is provide text menu links on the bottom of your site

Also, domain names with keywords in them, may have a better advantage. So if you are starting a new website, consider registering a domain with keywords in it.

Finally, don’t forget about link building. The more links to your website from external websites, the better your rankings will be. There are many things you could do to improve your links. Writing articles and submitting them to other sites for publication is one of the best ways, such as what we have done here to improve our own link building. If you have a good website which is content rich, naturally more people will link to it as well.  Consider posting articles on your website or start a blog. Press release writing and distribution is also a great idea. Not only it may result in some traffic, but it will also build some back links once you get some coverage.

Kanye West who has over 450,000 twitter followers and was not following anyone himself, suddently picked one random person to follow last Friday (July 31, 2010). This lucky person is a 19 year old student from England named Steven Holmes, who is not thrilled with the sudden fame. At first, he says, it was fun, but he started getting many calls from reporters, including CNN, BBC and New York Magazine that wanted to interview him. He also been contacted by many individuals who are trying to get Kanye’s attention for business purposes, such sending him demo tapes of their music.

Steven Holmes, who goes by Twitter ID “ste_101″, wrote on his Twitter “”Holy *&$% bro thx for following!” Kanye replied: “You are the chosen one dun dun dun dun.”

The British student has seen his followers grow to over 5000 due to this sudden fame. However, he posted: “This has been completely surreal and I really have no desire for this attention i’m just a normal person. I won’t be speaking to anybody else, surprisingly not everyone wants to be famous. That’s all I’m saying – peace out x.”

Many Twitter users who are business oriented or run businesses are trying to grow their followers, mainly for marketing purposes. The other day I ran into a company that does social media marketing services and can help with building twitter followers. They are called iClimber. Check out their website at www.iclimber.com.

Easy Content Blueprints, a new site which was just launched, will be offering content writing tips and forum to share ideas for website owners. The site is designed to get down and dirty where the real business is by helping Internet business owners promote their websites in the one way that truly works, by building interesting, authoritative customer relevant content.

The site owners are hoping the site to be a resource site for the many small business owners who place all their financial hopes on building an Internet business but find themselves at a loss when it comes to promotion.

Plans for the site include a membership community which will provide powerful and practical resources for those who want to develop content of every type, including articles, blogs, twitter posts, squidoo lenses and more.

“Our site is not in the get rich quick business, our aim is make things easy and predictable by creating step by step blueprints and a wealth of valuable information” says the owner of the website.