Alright, You have got yourself a brand new website about your business and you have told every single person you know about this new propaganda you have. You even made a fan page on facebook so that everyone can see and "like" it. After a week of amazing visits, the traffic is slowly fluctuating and eventually dropped to a pit.

You now realized that family members and friends aren't enough to maintain the traffic and potential profits your aiming. So what do you do now? First off, you need to know who are your target markets or who are the people whom you made the website for? Second, How will you reach them. Third, How much effort, time and money are you willing to invest to get the result you wanted?

You need to know the answers to those basic questions in order to head forward to your goals. Take time to analyze things. The answer to those questions will be essential before you start your SEO.

I have listed below some of the things that will help you a lot in marketing your website.

1. Submit your website to all search engines by getting yourself a webmaster account with Google, Yahoo and Bing. You also need to submit on sitemaps. It is not necessary to have a finished website before you start your submission. It takes time to be listed in the engines. Be an early bird, so you'll catch the worm!

2. Decide on the keywords that will be most advantageous for your site. There is a lot of competition over the internet that is why picking the keywords should be a very well thought part of your game plan. The best way to know the perfect keywords is by having yourself play as the audience. As an audience, what will you type if you are looking for the product that you are selling?

3. The Title or the meta title plays a very important role in search query. It is the first thing that search engine sees whenever it looks for all the possible result to the query. Catchy titles would be good for your readers but make sure it will also be attractive for search engine robots. So, make sure your Meta counts!

4. Put the best H1 Tags possible. H1 Tags aka header tags basically tells everyone what your website is about. It is like the heading of a paragraph which provides a teaser of your product/site. H1 tags may have small participation as with the way it looks but helps a lot in your SEO.

These are just some of the basic things in SEO that can help you with accomplishing you goal -that is to gain more traffic and possible profits!