Best Free options for SEO promotion

[mattman]

My wife has just started her own business. We've used Godaddy to obtain a domain and setup a website which due to the business is mainly static and used for enquiries rather than sales.

So now we have the website live, we would like to make sure it gets seen as high up as possible. I'm aware there is an element of the more you pay, the higher you are, but for a local business we do not have any budget for that yet. So what SEO tools do you find work best?

we've registered on Yell and google but not much else yet

Thanks in advance

[smifffymoto]

Mrs S has recently bought a couple of books about social media and how best to use it for promoting our business and so far is proving to be very useful.SEO is a different kettle of fish however.

[Altrezia]

SEO wise just make sure you have top notch and relevant content.

Marketing the site isn't the same thing as SEO.

[Dick Dastardly]

Does the site have a blog? If not, then put one in place and start writing regular content. Unique pieces that are a mixture of company news, industry news, advice articles, product/service updates, etc. that you then seed out via social media sites. These days SEO is as much about creating and distributing content, and how people respond to it, as it is about keywords and links.

[eatcustard]

You will need backlinks from other quality websites.
Crate a facebook page, blog, twitter, digg etc (but you will need to use them)

Try and get a few links on a .edu site for bonus points.

Most important keep the content on your website fresh, as content is king. ( thats why a blog is good)

Dont try and cheat and use blackhat techniques, as google will hammer you


You could download SEOmoz free toolbar for a bit of help

[Craikeybaby]

Google's own guide is a good starting point.