Aha - the secret of all secrets and truly the challenge of *anyone* with a website in an industry chock full of competition. Deb was so right to point you in the direction she did.

Also, if you check out the Website Reviews section and read the responses for each site that are related to on-site SEO (discussion on page titles, content, etc.) you'll find a lot of useful tips. Of course, you can always start a thread for your own URL there too and get tons of feedback specifically for your site

SEO (search engine optimization) is an ongoing process. You're basically jockeying for position in a literal sea of VA websites so it's good to consider SEO as a part of your ongoing marketing efforts.

Building quality links back to your site in directories is also an easy, but time consuming, part of the process.

In general, it takes nothing more than an investment of time to move your site up in the search results, but bear in mind there are lots of other VAs doing the same thing so be patient and keep tweaking your site and linkbuilding practices based on the info in the section Deb pointed you to and over time it will make a difference.

There are other ways such as social bookmarking sites (which I haven't explained here yet but will soon), and linking your site back in your signature in any forums you participate in (just having a signature link on our site here indexes a new VA site much, much faster).

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