Need to quickly understand search engine submissions, ranking and optimization but don't know where to begin?

Is your website hardly pulling in a few visitors a day...a week ??!!
Are you frustated after having worked hard on planning and building your home based internet marketing business and after optimizing and submitting to various search directories?

Among the biggest problems when marketing an online business is getting traffic to your website, and to get traffic you need to get a top ranking with the search engines. That is a fact!

The engines are indexing well over 15 million Web pages annually, so without high engine ranking optimization, you've got a lot of competition vying for these top spots.

We all know search optimization of these engineis a tricky business, sometimes we rank well on one engine for a particular keyphrase and assume that all search engines will like our pages and hence we'll rank well for that keyphrase on a number of engines.... well, not quite!

Fortunately there is good advice to be found over the entire web

This serie of helpful articles is a wealth of information offering a insightful view of the way search engines analyze and rank websites and how you can maximize using this advice.
Also, new related articles are published weekly.... and everything is Free.

• Ten Controversial Search Engine Optimization Techniques
  In this article I discuss ten controversial search engine optimization techniques that should be used with caution, or even avoided altogether.
  
  
• Penn State Study Reveals The Truth Behind Search Engine User Behavior
  In this article I summarize the findings of two Penn State University researchers, who analyzed more than 450,000 Web queries submitted to the AllTheWeb search engine in a 24-hour period, reviewing users' actions in chronological order.
  
  
• 27 Quick Tips To Top Search Engine Rankings
  In this article I show you how to improve your search engine rankings using 27 quick search engine optimization tips.
  
  
• How To Find Out What Keywords Your Customers Are Searching With
  In this article I show you how to capture your most targeted visitors with the search engines by discovering what keywords they search with.
  
  
• Revealed: Top Two Google Ranking Factors
  In this article I reveal what I believe are the two most important ranking factors used by Google.
  
  
• Case Study: Is Opening An Amazon zShop Worth It?
  In this article I will show you the results of my test with an Amazon zShop.
  
  
• How To Improve Your Link Popularity With Internal, Incoming & Outgoing Links
  In this article I show you how to improve your link popularity with internal, incoming & outgoing links, which will in turn improve your search engine rankings.
  
  
• Case Study: Is Lycos InSite Pro Paid Inclusion Worth It?
  In this article I will show you the results of my test with the Lycos InSite Pro paid inclusion site submission program.
  
  
• How Many Guaranteed Top Rankings Are You REALLY Getting?
  In this article I show you why most guaranteed top ranking packages offered by search engine optimization companies aren't really what they're made out to be.
  
  
• Are Yahoo! Sponsor Listings Worth The Investment?
  In this article I discuss a real-life case study of my marketing experiment with a Yahoo! Sponsor Listing to reveal whether it was worth the investment.
  
  
• How Keyword Density, Frequency, Prominence And Proximity Affects Search Engine Rankings
  In this article I explain the difference between keyword density, frequency, prominence and proximity, and how they affect search engine rankings.
  
  
• How To Find Link Exchange Partner Sites To Improve Your Link Popularity
  In this article I show you how to find link exchange partners to improve your link popularity rating, which in turn will improve your search engine rankings.
  
  
• Affiliate Managers: Your Top Five Biggest Affiliate Program Mistakes
  In this article I will show affiliate managers the mistakes they should avoid if they want to build a successful affiliate program.
  
  
• Top 13 Tips To Creating A Professional Looking Newsletter
  In this article I show you my top 13 tips on how to create professional looking newsletters.
  
  
• How To Get Free Links From Yahoo! Full Coverage
  In this article I show you a little known technique on how to submit your web site to the Yahoo! Full Coverage sections.
  
  
• How To Justify A Search Engine Optimization Budget
  In this article I show you how to justify a search engine optimization budget to your VP of Marketing, CFO, President, or CEO.
  
  
• How To Select The Best Category When Submitting To Web Directories
  In this article I show you how to select the best category when submitting to a web directory, to give your site every chance of achieving top rankings for the keywords you want to target.
  
  
• How The Yahoo! Directory Really Ranks Its Directory Listings
  In this article, I show you how the Yahoo! Directory ranks its listings, so you can use this knowledge to get higher rankings.
  
  
• Six Steps To Optimizing For Ask Jeeves
  In this article I show you how to optimize a web page for the Ask Jeeves search engine in 6 easy steps.
  
  
• Seven Illegal Search Engine Optimization Techniques
  In this article I discuss seven illegal, or almost illegal, search engine optimization and related techniques.
  
  
• Three Ways To Get Listed In Google
  In this article I show you three ways to get listed in Google, including one method that is virtually guaranteed to work.
  
  
• Top 12 Tips To Creating Effective Google AdWords Ads
  In this article I show you my top twelve tips for creating effective Google AdWords ads.
  
  
• Two Ways To Optimize JavaScripts In Web Pages
  In this article I show you how to optimize your web pages by moving your JavaScript code out of the all-important top portion of the HTML file.