A great article on how to do your own SEO by this fabulous smart dude, Chris Bennett. He talks about keyword density versus good copy that utilizes keywords. He talks about meta data and more--but makes it all easy to understand. Article is courtesy of elance.com.
http://www.elance.com/p/node/2463?rid=1AMGM




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