Now that you've decided to begin creating niche sites the next logical step in the process is to decide what kind of niche site you want to create. That is, you must pick a niche topic. Once you've done that, you can pick a set of niche site keywords to use in order to attract search engine spiders to your site, as well as actual human visitors. Read 'How to Find the Best Keywords for a Niche Site'.

One of the first research tasks in search engine optimization (SEO) is selecting your keywords. This, at first glance may seem like a 'no-brainer', this is far from the truth. The keywords you optimize and market to the Search Engines with, could, in the end, be the difference between success and failure of your internet business. Sound excessive? Read 'Keyword Development; The path to internet success'.

There are few more important factors in your website's success than the people who link to it. But why are links so important, and how can you get more people to link to you? Read 'The Importance of Links'.

Indexing has always been considered a highly targeted science. Enter a search query into Google search and the pages that are displayed are generally optimized towards that exact word or term. However, in their continual battle to server the most relevant but most natural pages with genuinely useful information Google has injected latent semantic indexing (LSI) into its algorithms. Read 'Latent Semantic Indexing And SEO'.

Since the arrival of Google and their PageRank, search engines have put a lot of weight on links to a site. There used to be simple ways to get good rankings: Meta tags, titles, keyword density, etc. Today, things have become more complex, with search engines now using a very complicated algorithm. Read 'The use of linking'.