The SEO and the Blacksmith

[mandy]

... Ultimately, the goal is to position your Web pages in the top 20 results at major search engines, or you're simply sitting in a search engine dungeon with a lot of other no-hopers.

It's simple as this: it's not in the code. The solution to getting that top rank has so little to do with code it's hardly worth losing sleep over. Think link, think user behavior. Going forward, this is primarily what a ranking algorithm scores you on...

Once again, content is king. If you create great content, if you earn the respect of your peers so they acknowledge you as an authority and link to you, if users find your content sticky enough, you're probably doing the right things to get that top ranking position.

full article: http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/res...hp/3556396