>Hey Barb...
>
>This isn't meant to sound like a put down...Rather it's a
>challenge.
>
>Tell me something about SEO you don't think I already know?

Oh I like this challenge. Let me think....

Okay, do you know this process? I'm currently following it for my next week launch of http://www.IncomeFitness.com - the end result gets people TO the site but VIA my secondary sites (where ideally I can capture their email addresses as well). The SEO will come into play I reckon 2-3 weeks from now - I want people to see

Income Fitness

when they search on

Barbara Ling

Right now only one interview with that keyword comes to the top 10. Give me time. The following steps are more fully described in said Income Fitness book.

1.) Have N blogs that are comment-luv enabled. I use
http://www.virtual-coach.com (business blog) and
http://www.barbaraling.com (personal blog)

2.) Over the period of a month, structure out a series of posts that end up driving traffic to your main site (in my case, the prelaunch signup).

3.) Make certain you have EITHER a compelling marketing headline OR an SEO'ed headline for your blog posts. I generally try for compelling now, as I'm focusing on word-of-mouth more than SEO.

4.) After each blog post is published, search out via google the blogs that use commentluv (so you'll get a deep link back complete with SEO keywords/marketing headline) and comment intelligently. When the blog author approves the comment, you get the one-way link back.

5.) Once you've commented, stumble the post as well. This will help drive traffic to the blog post in question (good for the blog owner) but more importantly, when people read the post, they'll see your deep link as well. That generates people-driven traffic.

Rinse and repeat.

The above gets your name and site URL linked rather well on the Internet. Check out me:

<A href=http://www.google.com/search?q=%22barbara+ling%2C+virtual+coach%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a>"barbara ling, virtual coach"</a>

Now, SEO comes into play if you use keywords in your tag name (mine is Virtual Coach). It also comes into play if you want to rank high for local SEO topics or start to build a SEO funnel to capture top ranked SEO words.

But that's the topic for another post.....

How did I do?

Barbara