The McDonald's Corporation requires a minimum of $250,000 of non-borrowed personal resources to consider you for a franchise. In other words you need $250,000 cash on hand to just start the discussion process with McDonald's. If you have $250,000 available read on...
Search Engine Optimisation or SEO is the simple activity of ensuring a website can be found in search engines for words and phrases relevant to what the site is offering. In many respects it's simply quality control for websites.
In addition to covering SEO generally, Search Engine Land also has search engine optimization areas specifically for each of the major search engines: Google SEO; Bing SEO; Yahoo SEO; Also within our library is the How To: SEO section, which is devoted to practical tips and tactics about search engine optimization.