Dont Buy SEO Elite
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the best way to get long term targeted traffic from the search engines. But SEO requires hard word and commitment on the part of the webmaster. It may take a few months before results start appearing.
First lets see what SEO is in nutshell. SEO means that you optimize your site for search engines so that they rank it well for the keyword that you are aiming. You need to do two things for SEO: On Page and Off Page Optimization. On page Optimization requires you to include html /H2 headers and not more than 4% keyword density in the content for telling the search engine the keyword that you want to be ranked.
On page optimization is only for telling the search engines the keyword that you want to be ranked. But its your site link popularity that is given more importance by the search engines. This is known as Off Page Optimization and requires you to get thousands of quality backlinks from authority sites before the search engines start taking your site seriously.
Let me be frank, both On Page and Off Page Optimization requires hard work for a few months. There is no shortcut. Google does not like reciprocal links.
Some people fall into the trap of Black Hat SEO Gurus. These gurus will sell their eBooks for hundreds of dollars telling you to do this and do that. Avoid black hat. Search engines hate this stuff. Your site may get penalized by the search engines for using such techniques.
A number of SEO software are now available online that claim to help you in getting good traffic from the search engine. One such software is SEO Elite. Many people think that this software get help them in getting there website get ranked on Google, Yahoo or MSN.
SEO Elite is expensive. It only tells you how many websites are linking back to your site. And what is the ranking of your site for a particular keyword. It does not help you in link building and it does not help you in on page optimization.
Why you want to pay a few hundred dollars to know these things when Google provides you this information for free. Google is your friend. Learn to do what Google wants you to do and see how Google will start loving you.
Have you heard of Google Webmaster Tools? If not then open a Google Account, you will get the Google Webmaster Tools free. Submit your site and its sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. Within a few days, Google will index your site. Without getting indexed, you cant get ranked.
There is link Search Queries in the Google Webmaster Tools that will tell you the keywords for which your site was ranked in the last week and last month.
Use: link:http://www.yourdomain.com on the Google Webmaster Tools page to find the backlinks that Google knows your site is getting. If Google is not counting a backlink, it simply means Google does not know about it and that link has no value for Google.
Isnt this method free and better than spending hundreds of dollars on SEO Software? If you have a Google Adwords account than you can also open a Google Analytics account for your site free.
Google Analytics is even better. It gives you the number of visitors, pageviews; keywords that are giving you search engine traffic, direct traffic and other referral sites that send traffic to your site.