The holidays are a great time to sit back and relax with family and of course catch up on the latest monetization ideas floating around the web.

I’ll be spending some time in the air as I head from Charlotte, NC to see my family in Connecticut, and I have downloaded a few shows from WebmasterRadio.fm that look interesting. WebmasterRadio has weekly shows hosted by some of the big players in the affiliate marketing/SEO/web business game. I have only listened to the SEORockstars and Net Income shows so far, and I always feel like I learn at least one thing from each show. You can download mp3s, so it will be perfect to fill up my ipod for the trip.

In the part one of How to Not Suck at SEO, I wrote about the first steps in my mission to improve the search engine ranking of my sites. I have been working on the steps that I outlined in the previous post (reading up on SEO, CSS redesign, different class C IP blocks), and I have thought of a few more steps that I will need to work on.

1. Search Engine Friendly URLs. Instead of having my urls look like madnotes.com/notes.php?z=1, the URLs will look like madnotes.com/hamlet-notes.php.  I have been resisting this for a while, but the keyword rich URLs will improve my search enigne results. You can check out this site for code to use mod_rewrite to the create search engine freindly URLs.

While I was pouring over my stats last week, I came to the startling realization that I suck at SEO. As with any problem, facing it is the best option. I have decided to publicly confront my SEO demons and chronicle my efforts to improve. Hopefully, you can learn a little from my experience.