I received an e-mail from the Wordtracker keyword software that they are holding a special for the month of November. Enter the promotion code us-annual-15. This offer code provides a 15% discount on the purchase of an annual subscription if used by November 30. I've talked about Wordtracker in the past and use it regularly as part of my keyword research. For those of you who are unfamiliar here is a little overview:

Doing SEO on your own can be tough. There are plenty of "experts" in SEO waiting to milk you from your hard earned cash and leave you with no results or worse. Bad SEO can get your site banned or worse. The good news is I've compiled a few general self SEO Tips to get you rolling. With this article I hope to show you what to look for and what to avoid. While it won't replace a good search engine marketer, it will hopefully educate a few people on what to look for.

SEO Visibitly for SEO Visibility

When people are searching for things they often type something wrong. This happens every day, and it might have even happened to you right now. SEO Visibitly is optimizing content or even better pay per click ads to focus on misspellings. It is often a follow up to a main SEO strategy, but it can be quite cost effective. While researching for these terms you might even come across a new niche of traffic to draw upon.

Keywords are a funny thing. Most keywords start off pretty vague, and slowly grow to something unnatural. For example my site recently came up in a search result for "list of seo & sem sites with page rank less than six in uk". Now that is truly unexpected, and just strange. I'm still not sure how I came up for this search, but I can say that watching how people find my site has really helped me discover tweaks. While I use tools like the Wordtracker Free Keyword Tool and Keyword Discovery to get an idea of what people are searching for, these tools offer ideas but not facts. I have seen these reports show huge traffic for terms that just aren't true, and no traffic for terms that I'm getting results on. That being said they are both worth taking a look at, but what's more important is...

Search engine marketing relies on good links coming in to your site. When you have a site published with original content you can often boost ranking by submitting the site to a directory. Before there were search engines there were directories. Before yahoo had search, it had a directory. A good directory ensures that your site has quality content before listing it, and it's why the link is so valuable. Here is a list of a few top directories:

When designing a site it's important to pay attention to the keywords from start to finish. You can use keywords in your domain name like seo-web-design-costa-rica.com and in your page names such as /SEO-Search-Engine-Optimization.

Unparalleled growth in the real estate market of Costa Rica's central pacific coast has brought small businesses a burden with its boom. Businesses that were competing in a small town environment before are finding that they have to deal with a major market shift. None of this is new, and businesses large and small all over the world have been dealing with market shift for years. Small businesses everywhere have numerous resources at hand to compete in these rapidly growing environments, but often times these simple things are overlooked.