Where do you start when you want your website listed on the first page and the SERP (Search Engine Results List)? Here's a start...

• Do not purchase a new domain unless you have to. Build one big website on your current domain.
• Research keyword phrases extensively
• Design & categorize your site architecture and navigation based on your keyword research
• Incorporate your keyword phrases into each page’s unique title tag, meta description tag and meta keyword tag
• Write compelling copy based on your keyword phrases and your target market needs
• Label your internal text links and clickable image alt attributes (alt tags) as clearly and descriptively as possible
• Use clean html code, ensuring that the search engines are able to crawl your website
• Create a robots.txt file for your website
• Add web analytics tool to monitor successes (Google offers a free tool “Google Analytics” that is easy to use)
• Open a Google Webmasters account to promote, monitor and maintain your SEO efforts
• Submit your website sitemap in a Google accepted format
• Create a linking strategy campaign
• Submit your website to search engines