We have received many emails from our fellow readers asking if there’s anything they could do on their own to jump start their web traffic recently. Thanks all for the email folks! We will try to answer all your email as soon as possible, but it may take a while. Sorry for the long silence in advance :P

Anwyay, SEO is never a rocket science. In fact it is much more similar to PR and marketing than you think, so certainly there are many many things that one can do without touching the code (oh well… perhaps a little…) or techie stuff. Hence we are launching this quick tip series hoping to give you some insight from a more general perspective, hopefully you will find a tip or two useful as time goes by.

SEOMoz, industry leading SEO company releases a list of factors that contribute most ranking a website on major search engines every year. SEOMoz Ranking Factors was compiled through interviewing with around 100 industry leader and experts with a hundred identified SEO factors and have them rate and comment on these factors. They have recently released SEOMoz Ranking Factors 2009, with some of the highlights below:

So your business has been doing pretty good. You think it is time to start getting some global attention. You heard that many business succeeded marketing their business online, so you thought it'd be a good idea to buy some Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ads from Google and Yahoo.

Few weeks later you look at the invoice from Google thanking you for your $2,000. You are very excited that the ad campaign has gone so well "successful" that you must have created quite some attention for all these clicks the campaign generated. You are expecting a dozen of enquiry emails or orders sitting in your inbox. You ask your assistant if there is any message for you, "No!" she replied. You start to wonder... is there something wrong with this whole PPC Ad Campaign idea? The fact is, your website may not be ready for PPC.

Previously we have talked about how to optimize your Twitter page with Name, Username, and the More Info URL in 5 Tips to Optimize Your Twitter Page - Part 1. For those of you who have been sticking with me from the previous post, this is Part 2. 

Tip 4: Flood Your One Line Bio with Keywords While Maintaining Natural Readability!

OK, this one is easy. Use as many keyword (both broad and long tail keywords) as u could, however it is very important to maintain natural readability. Unlike optimizing the Title Tag and Description Meta Tag that you already have Title Tag to demonstrate the keyword discretely and your Description Tag will then have to emphasize on making it natural writing, however Title of the Twitter page SERP results have already been occupied by Name and Username. Therefore, it shouldn't be too hard selling putting your keywords in a descrete manner. However SERP algorithm in most serach engines are sophisticated enough that over doing anything pretty much will be penalized these days. So beware not to just repeat the same keyword over and over again. Even if it may help, still, won't give you much traffic simply because it is ANNOYING!

Twitter pages have their own page rank too in Google, so it is important to do this 5 mins drill better utilize your Twitter page.This article is based on the assumption that you have done your keyword research and you have a beautiful keyword (broad or long tail) at hand already before you start optimizing your twitter page. Bear with me though, that you would rather optimize your Twitter page with a single keyword (incl. long tail) simply because there is no room to optimize for another.  You may be wondering what Keyword Research is, and how it should be performed. Keyword Research is a monster. It is the key of the house, heart of a body in ALL SEO practices. It could take days to explain to you what Keyword Research is and how they should be carried out, but I think we’d better leave that to another article on than wrapping it up in a few lines.