So you think you're an SEO expert?

[Steve_gts]

The thing that most struck me was that you had ruthlessly put your keyphrase at the very beginning of your site contents, title, description and keywords. It would make sense for SE's to give greatest weight to words at the beginning of the title and description, but I have never seen anybody else mention it. Have you invented a new SEO tactic?

Not putting keywords first in the title seems to be a really common mistake, I've even seen pretty big sites which have been "SEO'd" have the company name as the first thing in the title on every page (I know the one in my link does, but I don't want that site found yet, I just have a few pages up to age before the work starts). keywords I personally don't think matter, although I still keep the tag and chuck a few in just in case I'm wrong! Description is good though, not so much from optimisation, but it definitely improves click through rates as that's what people will see on your listing, which in turn (apparently) helps your SERP's.

But anyway Old Sarge, so what you were saying before, is that it really all comes down to getting your keyword research right to start with so you have a high traffic uncompetitive word to work with? I quite agree, just can't seem to find them myself! lol