No matter what industry you’re in, build relationships.

I’m referring to real, honest, long standing relationships built on a foundation of trust. Surround yourself with the very best in your industry.

No one can be the “best” at everything. No one can know everything. But with these relationships, you can pool your resources and keep yourself informed. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. By combining your strengths with others, you can help to offset your weaknesses.

But, be sure to build these relationships honestly and make absolutely sure that they’re real. Otherwise, there will be no foundation at all if they aren’t.

Social media sites such as Linked In, MySpace, & FaceBook are great places to start finding people in your industry. Make sure to establish a business account separate from your personal one.

Once you’ve established an account search for groups and people related to your industry and request to be their friend. Then make contact. Introduce yourself, and be active in the community you are a part of.

Social media sites like these may not pass to much in the way of page rank or link juice to your site but rather brand you and your business.

If done correctly you should see an increase in traffic to your site. You can see this through your analytics.

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The search engines love simplicity, so give it to them.

Two ways you can do this is by using CSS (cascading style sheets) or by creating a simplified version of your site with out all the bells and whistles.

CSS is a great way to get rid of unwanted code bloat. Code bloat is when you use inline and on page styling instead of putting it in an external style sheet. If your web site has too much in the way of code bloat then you may loose points from an SEO standpoint.

There are more than 60 things to do on each page of your site to fully optimize it. Code bloat is one of these elements. Reducing code bloat can increase your page load time, help you to better read and modify the code, keep your code more organized and help your rankings in the search engines.

More than likely code bloat is not that big of a deal from an SEO standpoint. It probably holds about as much weight as the keyword meta tag does.

However, if you have a competitive site that needs to rank for competitive keywords, you want to make sure you hit as many of those 60 on-site page elements as possible.

Remember, every little bit helps.

Your Expanded SEO tip for today.

Get creative with your link building strategies. If you have a travel site, what about creating a special area where your clients can post stories, coloring sheets, and pictures of their recent
trip? Don’t you imagine your clients would then link to the page devoted just to them? As a bonus, you’re also building valuable content for your site.

Link building is vital to getting rankings in the search engines. You need to be doing a little each day. Whether you are adding your site to a directory or requesting a link from someone related to your industry, you need to be doing something in the area of link building weekly if not daily.

Let’s say you just add 2 links a day to your site. Let’s then say you only build links 5 days a week since your probably off on the weekends. That’s 10 links a week and 520 links a year. This number doesn’t include the links you will build by implementing a strategic article and press release campaign as well as anything you may be getting from your social media efforts.

Now you may be thinking 520 links in a year isn’t a lot, but this method looks natural to the search engines which will keep you from getting any unwanted flags or bans by them.

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