SEO tips = better search engine ranking

Content and SEO should be kept separate

Search engines will not find your great content unless you help them. When I started my ESL site it was the second best free English learning resource available. I got around 10-20 visits a day through word of mouth.

Now (2 years later) I'm getting 1,000 people a day. The content is still good, but it hasn't been updated in a year. The search engines don't care. All they know is that I have more incoming links now.

Regarding on page SEO, it's only worthwhile for non-competitive keyword combos. My advice is to forget about it and focus on good content for humans and links for search engines.