Need advice on search engines & web site

Hi,
I am creating a new website for a small boutique hotel. I haven't worked with search engines in a while and things may have changed. Can you give me advice on what I should and should not do?

We have to get good placement in search engines and look forward to any wisdom you have on how to get this.

thanks,
Al

You need to just do research. Read through this forum and you will find a ton of great information. Then if you have any specific questions, please ask.

You will have to do some search engine optimization on your site to improve your rankings in the SERPs.

Work on getting backlinks to your site.

Try to search on this forum to find good solutions for the SEO.

I think.... if you are targetting Google then there is some shift in SEO.....
You have to concentrate more on content and backlinks as usual but should also try to optimize your site for personal search and latent semantic indexing strategy....

Traditional SEO practices may change in near future.....

Be in touch with popular SEO blogs and forums.

you can get some text links... that would help you boost your traffic

Start to get theme based oneway links and watch the difference.

First you need to consider is optimizing on-page. You need to do some keyword research and analysis, meta tags, page content, link building.