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shokey,

If you dont want to pay for SEO I fully recommend spending an hour a day on forums like this - check out the more specific SE related sites.

There really is loads to it (SEO) & its not a simple case of making a couple of improvements & there you go.

Its important that you learn yourself as no-one will do all the hard work for you -unless you pay:-D

Spending time reading in the forums will pay off

I totally agree. When I was hired at my current job 2 years ago, I knew ZIP about SEO. Well, I was flat-out told to learn, and that the company wasn't going to send me to any special seminars.

Forums such as this, a few good websites, and subscription to a free SEO newsletter made me the SEO man I am today. It was not easy. I'd say it took me about a year to feel like I really knew what I was doing.