Question for SEO experts?

Hi,


I'm running an online business, and I get pretty great income. Now I want to take a dive into SEO. Of course I can get a lot of help online, but I want an expert's advice on how to start with it, and what exactly to do.


I am expert in on-page SEO, but I want more info on off-page SEO and social bookmarking.


Also, please let me know if there are some free tools to help me with that (I'm aware of Google Adwords Keyword tool only). I need someone to guide me. I'll be really grateful if I get some tips from the pros.


Thanks!|||When attaining backlinks (links to your website from other websites) it's important to focus on websites with high pageranks. Even if a website links to you and you're the only one they link to, if no one links to that website it's useless.





Alexa.com offers one of the most effective ways of getting link juice. Enter some of your competitor's websites into alexa.com and click sites linking in. You can see where they get most of their traffic, where they advertise, etc. It's a very simple, yet effective way of finding ways to get targeted traf





Another effective way of attaining targeted backlinks is to find websites of the same topic as your own that aren't direct competitors. For example: If you run a petstore, find a website talking about caring for pets that has a links page, and ask to be included in those links.





I've also listed some more generic websites designed to help websites like yours attain a higher pagerank.





Aboutus.org is a wiki to websites, allowing you to write an article about your website. If you write a professional sounding article, you can email them and get the "nofollow" tags removed, allowing Google to see you're linked to from them. http://www.aboutus.org/ProFollow





Joeant.com is a directory of websites, primarily shopping related. You can choose exactly the right section for your website to be added to, and get targeted visitors. Adding your url is only $40, or, if you choose, you can volunteer to become an editor of a category, and attempt to add your website for free. Doing it the free way doesn't guarantee acceptance, and delays the date of your website being added.





Dir.Yahoo.com is another directory of websites.This one has a much higher rate of visitation than any other, but is relatively expensive at $300 per year to list.





Stumbleupon.com, delicious.com, and mixx.com are all social bookmarking websites in which you can submit websites for others to comment on, and vote on. Digg.com is for uploading news stories, and is a very similar concept.





I hope this helps. If it does, please vote for this answer.|||You can have SEO in basic three steps:


1) Submit it to web directories like. http://www.dmoz.com


2) Submit it to free classified websites like http://www.hindlist.com and http://www.craigslist.com


3)Submit it to free article sites like http://www.ezinearticles.com


Best of luck