Curious to hear how other people think about SEO. What are you guys doing for SEO today and when do you start worrying about SEO? Are you using agencies, doing it yourself, etc.?
I've attracted over 50 million unique visitors to my sites using organic SEO over the past 10 years. I've always focused on the content and never tried to game the system. I never tried to do link building, etc.<p>I started out reading highrankings.com - they are a whitehat seo proponent. Just been following white hat all along and Google has rewarded me throughout.
The only "SEO strategy" that works is being relevant so the relevant people link to you and having a technically correct site (parseable HTML, appropriate status codes).<p>Not even keywords on domains or URLs matter as much anymore after Google's Panda. Agencies are snake oil vendors and a great way to waste time and money.
I actually wrote about this very subject a couple of months ago regarding a craigslist web app I help create.<p><a href="http://blendah.com/post/37787050142/how-to-get-a-top-google-ranking" rel="nofollow">http://blendah.com/post/37787050142/how-to-get-a-top-google-...</a><p>Hope this helps.