Do the words "search engine optimization" put a cold chill into the center of your heart? Does it seem too complicated? For more detail go to: www.autoresponder-money.com. Do you even know what SEO means? Well, there's no doubt that it will bring lots of traffic to any website, which will in turn, intensify your list building efforts. However, to do it on a large scale, it takes very specialized knowledge. Can you do it? Should you do it? My answer is yes. There are some very simple techniques that can make your list building efforts go through the roof.

Remember to be list building on every page you can. Put an opt-in box on your website's homepage. Also put an opt-in box into your blog template, and into your profile at MySpace or wherever. If you haven't done these things, do them now! They're extremely important to list building.

But to increase the list building potential of any site or blog, you'll need to drive traffic to those sites. The first thing you need to figure out is a huge list of keywords that are part of your niche. Write all the words you think of down on a piece of paper.

For instance, if your niche is jewelry, you might have diamond jewelry, bracelets, gold, silver, and so on. Just think of as many terms as you can. And see how many people have searched on each of those words in the previous month. Decide which words get the most hits and forget them. Forget words that get less than 3,000 searches. Find words that apply and that are somewhere in the middle. Those will be your less-competitive, but still frequently searched terms. Make a separate list of those, too.

The words that are remaining are all potential keywords for you, but choose three to five that you can rank for. Then, be sure to use one keyword in every post you write at a density of around 2%. That means if you write 400 words, about 8 of them should be keywords. But don't try to get more than one keyword to that density. It's much too difficult to use more than one, and your words could come off sounding spammy. You don't want that.

OK, so we're list building. Right? How does this apply? Hang on, you'll see...

OK. Your post is done. You're at 2% density for "brooches," let's say. OK. Now, make the word brooches part of your title. Use bold or italic for brooches once in the post, not both and no more than once. For more detail go to: www.autoresponders-unlimited.com.Also, link the word brooches to the page where you're selling brooches. Search engine spiders will see all this and think, "Oh, OK... this post is about brooches." When someone types in the word brooches, they may see your page in the search results and visit your blog. Bingo! You have a list building opportunity. Use a phrase like "Sign up for our free weekly buying tips on fine jewelry," and BAM! You have just improved your list building efforts.

Do the very same thing with your MySpace profile, or wherever you hang out, and use your keywords. Your homepage should have your keywords in it for around a 2% density, too. If you do these simple things, you'll be amazed at how much they really help.