unfortunately I have a lot of site and also spend a lot of time working ( offline ). I don’t have the capacity to spend days on seo and building backlinks. I just thought i would share with you my lazy way to get my sites up and running initially. Here are a few steps i do straight away after my site has been ftp-ed.

1. Sitemap submission - yahoo and google. I typically use a free sitemap genorator called  http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. Its a good tool - after i have submitted both the sites to yahoo and google and put them in my google webmaster tools I then wait a few days.

2. I log into webmaster tools and check if any “keywords” have appeared in the statistical part of webmaster tools.  If any interesting keywords have appeared i go to the next step.

3. Take the keywords that you have and do a quick check in google for the competitive keyword. and then goto https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and again check for alternative and better related keywords.

4. you have grabbed a keyword ( it may be 500 or so on google rankings ). To make the keyword “stronger” go back to on site seo and play with the keywords you have and include them in the content. Include them in the meta tags and description and include a H2 tag and H1.

5. resubmit and wait for a few more days and log onto webmaster tools to see the increase.

6. Its working, great! take a free directory submission, or paid on ( i use IBP ) and then submit your keyword as an anchor tag ie: blog tips . You will notice a marked change in the rankings over a period of 2-3 weeks.

Its important not to tweak the “keyword content” on your site too much - but over that initial 2 -3 weeks you will start to see other prime keywords in webmaster tools and then you just have to go back to step 3 to 5. Dont keyword stuff and include the keywords a hundred times as google does not like it and you will suffer a traffic decrease. But if your lazy like me, this is a sure way of getting your rankings and traffic up.