Is seo really effective in boosting a website's ranking in search engine?

[rarobinson]

If I optimized my website, can it guarantee a number #1 position in the search engines?

[vicecaptain]

Getting number ! rank is not so easy. Many web masters struggle a lot everyday for the same goal. So the number 1 rank is not possible for everyone. But SEO is the main factor to decide you Rank.
Some of the methods of SEO are,
* Submitting forums.
* Blog submission
* Directory submission
* Article Submission
* Keyword Generation, etc.
The best way to get a good rank is to do lots and lots of SEO works. But remember to have a good content in your website. Never stop your SEO works. Concentrate on all fields of SEO equally. At the same time try with some automated SEO works. This could boost up your results with a better margin. An SEO tool could assist well in such case. For example a Search Engine Visibility Tool is available at www.Thewebpole.com . This tool does a lot of automated SEO steps. Some of them are,
* Easy, one-click website submission to Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, AOL and many more.
* Easy one click submission to over hundreds of directories.
* Improves search engine rankings with keyword and suggested topics tool.
resulting in getting a better rank in search engines. All the best mate.