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I have my own website but have never been able to place top 10 in the search engines. I have read about SEO and even tried to optimize to achieve better positioning without any results.
Can anyone point me to the right direction? I really don't know what I am doing wrong. I am not a professional developer, I am self taught, but have been writing html for years.

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Hi, There are no guarantees in this game. I can suggest that you firstly look at your content and compare them with your titale tags, description tags and keyword tags on each page.
These are the basis of your seo.
You should then look to choose a key phrase that describes your business, that others are searching for, but the online competition is low. Google can help with that.
After that, I would strongly recommend starting a relevant links campaign, and combine that with a Pay Per Click campaign too.
If you wish to use someone, then please contact your local WSI person. We are WSI Northampton (UK), and we do SEO for a number of companies, but we do bespoke packages so that it can be affordable. Of course the more you invest the better the return.
The starting point for discussion with any SEO expert is about your business. The questions to ask them are:

Will you make changes to my website - If they say no, please walk away. Any SEO expert worth his salt will make changes to your website.

Can you guarantee me a top 10 positioning - the answer should be No. There are no guarantees, but they will keep on working at it and looking at the resuls and tweaking accordingly.

Tere are many companies out there, ask them for references, ask for case studies. they should also ask you a lot about your company, and may do some analysis for you as well in advance. (We would).

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Hello, I am getting you very well..

There’re so many factors: on page: keyword in title, link text, in bold, link text from back links, size of your site, frequency of updating your site..
Or Have a look at Organic Search Engine Optimization in my sign that for some more tips. The main thing is that seems to work is getting you to top from other sites to help you rank well.
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Hello, I am getting you very well..

There’re so many factors: on page: keyword in title, link text, in bold, link text from back links, size of your site, frequency of updating your site..
Or Have a look at Organic Search Engine Optimization in my sign that for some more tips. The main thing is that seems to work is getting you to top from other sites to help you rank well.
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First off, good seo takes a lot of time.  Full time, not just passive work here and there.  With that said, you can still rank high and quickly, if your competition is weak.  That oftens happens if you're targeting some local community/service.  A great free tool to check on your competition is the SEOQuake toolbar.

A bit about SEO:
There are both on-site SEO factors and off-site SEO factors.

The way you appear to search engines crawlers is very different from the way you appear to your visitors, and even if your visitors can navigate your site and find relevant content with ease, doesn't mean that the bots can.

For on-site SEO focus on the keywords you use in your URL and on page.  The size of your page, and the placement of relevant keywords close together.  (that's in addition to the great advice given by spense and logan above)

For off-site SEO, you need to have backlinks.  The more the better.  Each backlink is like a vote for your site.  The trick is to have the proper keywords in your anchor text (the keywords you want to rank for) and to have those links do-follow, NOT no-follow links.  That way spiders crawl them.  It helps also to have higher page ranking sites.

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