Who has time nowadays? How about search engine optimization? You probably know that SEO is no walk in the park and often consumes much of your time and effort. However, there are some quick and easy stuff you can do to give your website that much needed little boost in the SEO department.
1. There is only more search engines out there than just Google. So plan to get listed in more search engines. There are tons of them out there. There are also many free services that will help you get listed. Or just set aside some time to get it done yourself. Do a search for “free search engine submission” and you will find many such websites that will let you cycle through the top 100 search engines and get your site submitted.

2. Next, get listed in more website directories. There are plenty of them out there and not all directories are created equal. Look for higher pagerank directories.

3. Another fundamental tip is that you ought to do is to clean up your html and check your links to make sure that all are valid and working. You want the spiders and the bots from the search engines to have smooth sailing through your site. Use the tools on W3c.org and have a real person check them over too.

4. Getting some more links to your site. Make them relevant and at least the same pagerank as you.

5. Make your page filenames descriptive and keyword rich. Naming your page new_page_1.html is wasting an opportunity to do some SEO. Use names that describe the content and keep the keywords flowing.

6. Check your Title tags. You can use 90 – 100 characters in the title, so add some keywords. We know Google looks at them, and so do many more search engines.

7. Check your ALT tags. Searchbots can’t see pictures (some say Google can…hmmm). Make sure you have ALT tags on all of your pictures, and make sure they are descriptive and keyword rich. But remember do not keyword stuff!

8. Rewrite your URL (anchor) tags. Good anchor tags (the text between the http: and /a tags) reinforce the message and key words of your site.

9. Go post in a few forums and put your website in your signature. Forums are a great place to put one way links. But never ever spam! Contribute something of value and you can help somebody out at the same time.

10. Put together a text based sitemap and put it on your site. There’s a lot of navigation that spiders can’t understand, such as flash, forms, java and javascript. Putting together a text-based sitemap gives the bots a way to navigate around the site.

Just allocate fifteen minutes everyday to do a few of the things above. You have the whole week to do the entire list and it will make a huge difference in your SEO and getting your rank higher at the end of the day!