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Re:Ask HN: Do you pay for SEO by _ud4a on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @10:29PM (#2515970)
doing SEO is not as complicated as you think. read a few books and you can do it yourself

-target main keywords - have proper titles - validated html files - BACKLINKS to your site from valid sites (pr4+). this will help increase your page rank and boost you in google pages. Single handedly this is the most important aspect of SEO.

Re:Ask HN: Do you pay for SEO by pdenya on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @10:59PM (#2516014)
Thanks for your input. I believe my site is built in a fairly SEO friendly manner, with keywords taken into account in copy, titles for pages, etc. I've been reading about SEO for a while and i've done pretty well with a few sites but I'm sure folks who spend their days doing SEO will still be better at it than me.

Back links are the main issue because I don't have many (any) and i'm not sure where to get them for this particular site. Normally I'd build up content myself but this is more of a side project and i'd rather not commit that level of time to it.