Google Free SEO Starter Guide. DIY SEO Help

Times are. tough. The recession is here, money is tight, real estate is tougher. I feel for all Realtors. Those of you with web sites must consider doing all you can to achieve top organic placements so that business and clients can be obtained. Your purse strings may now be tight because of the economic situation, and as such, the last thing you may be considering is hiring a professional SEO consultant that can help get you those top search engine placements. I, as SEO professional consultant here your pain.

So, here is a link to Googles SEO Starter Guide. It is free. It is very basic, and has the basic elements that an SEO pro would do....not everything, but enough to help you improve your web site placements on your own. Those of you with a template web site will find some restrictions on all you can do, others may find your web site design will cause a hinderance, but....making some of the changes needed can help. It is free and takes only your time to complete.

The link to the free SEO Starter Guide from Google can be found at this link
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html

From Google:
Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.

And, to make you laugh..here is a funny blog I made for one of my Realtor clients
http://www.not-my-monkey.com/

Best
Bonnie