Looking to boost your standings in search engines such as Google but are unsure how to get started?

Search engine optimization, or SEO, can get pretty deep, but there are any number of things you can do with little exerperience that can have an effect on how pages of your site rank in search engines. Things such as tayloring your URL and page titles to creating site maps and labeling picturescan all help your page rankings, as can starting your own blog:

A search engine wants to see fresh content, and blogging is a great way to provide it. Caren blogs at least three times a week. “Google wants to see you’re giving people something,” she says. Her blog is on her own Web site (not with a hosted service), so that keywords appearing in the blog help her ranking. If she starts attracting comments, those will also count as updates to her site, further boosting her ranking.

BusinessWeek covers a number of the more simple SEO things you can for your site in their recent article, Search Engine Optimization for Small Business.