Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Help!!!

I created a website and was wondering if anyone here personally had any experience with SEO and where to start exactly. I take this very serious so I'm hoping to get answers from people who are knowledgeable about SEO (intermediates and advanced, not beginners). Not just any answers will do. Afterall, I'm sure you'd agree with me when I say you wouldn't take accounting/legal advice from the college janitor. Different context...same point applies. The answers don't have to be long and elaborate (it's up to you), I'm just looking for some good legitimate info from people here to get the snowball rolling. Thanks in advance guys and gals! :banana:

I know my way around a search engine. It depends on what you are using it for? What exactly are you searching through and how do you want the results? Why is it something that you can't use a Google field for? Google has thousands of developers and the fastest algorithm out there.

I managed to get my site VERY high with some simple yet effective SEO techniques.

I have heard that google skips meta tags usually, but you shouldn't have too many meta tags in your heading but having description tags is very important and google, like many other searches will compare the meta tags with the domain, title, header tags, bold font and then the website content!

It is imperative that for good rankings your tags/description hold an accurate description of your website, and that these link to the actual content of the page. Have you ever clicked the cache button when doing a google search rather than just the link? It shows you where it has identified all the key words in the page. It is important to keep these different and relevant to each individual page.

Some key tips I can offer you:
Make sure all images have relevant ALT tags included, google uses these and to be W3 compliant I believe you're required to do this also.

Make sure you link your site with as many other sites as possible. Google loves a site which has many links into/out of it.

Key word analysis: You can use sites like http://www.keywordspy.com/organic/ke...oldTab=Organic to analyse key words and your own personal sites key words to see how they compare to competitors and how many times the key words are used by others, That link is the keyword information when searching 'photography'. Very useful.
Include a sitemap.xml and maybe also a robots.txt file to exclude certain spiders/robots

Google even has it's own website optimization, it will analyse your site and tell you how strong your site is for specific key word searches: www.google.com/websiteoptimizer

Include changing content, always update your site with new information.

How much do you know about web design and SEO? A lot of this information is on the web already.

If you're after highly advanced knowledge then you're completely in the wrong place, in the same way that people who ask for medical advice on these boards are in the wrong place.

If you're seriously interested in SEO - and if you want to know advanced stuff, that implies you are - then be prepared to spend quite a bit of money learning about it.

A lot of people (myself included) are learning about SEO to make lots of money. The people who have mastered it, are already using it to make lots of money (and partly by selling the information on how to do it).

If you want specific knowledge, then you need to go to specific places on the web.

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I managed to get my site VERY high with some simple yet effective SEO techniques.

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Forgive me, but firstly there doesn't appear to be too much competition on your site. The only thing the site ranks well for is "adam ash", which gets about 70 hits a month, and will be a fairly unique name. The other keywords listed don't rank well at all.

(If they rank well for you, then it's possible that google is giving a 'biased view' where it modifies the listings for sites it detects you frequently using)

Secondly many of the links (most of which are from DV) are backlinks and/or nofollow which Google doesn't really care for. Google likes lots of inbound links that do not have backlinks or nofollow.