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For many of us the search engines, namely Google is our main source of free traffic but after last year's Panda smack down and Google continuing to shake things up within rankings what should we focus on when it comes to our SEO efforts in 2012?

The answer to this question is simple the users and here are some tips.

Whether you're a freelance web designer, developer, writer or online marketer one of the hardest things to do in 2012 is continuously land new clients. Let's face it, thanks to sites like odesk.com, guru.com & elance.com the competition within the freelance game is getting tougher by the day.

So how can you find and land ongoing freelance work online?

To help you understand more and start building your websites using HTML5 I have compiled a list of other important HTML5 tags and if there are any I missed please make sure to post them in the comments below.

In my last post after stating just how important it's going to be to start coding your web designs in HTML5, I felt it my duty to go a little deeper and explain a little more about just what HTML5 is and how you can start incorporating it into your projects and designs in 2012.

As the internet evolves and the way things online are expected to be done change, so do the skills and knowledge web designers need keep up to par. So the main question I am hearing all the time these days is:

What skills do web designer need in 2012?

I remember a time when my main web traffic tactics all revolved around SEO and getting high rankings in the search engines. 2012 is a totally different game and all of us need to start looking at all the other ways to bring more traffic to our websites.

All of us are always on a mission to increase the number of high page ranking backlinks to our websites and blogs, but we also forget backlinks are also a great source of direct traffic as well. Tumblr, if you've never heard of just could be the next Twitter and is basically a blogging social media network similar to blogger.com.

Thanks to affiliate networks, even those of us without our own products and services to sell have a chance to make money online and without a shadow of a doubt affiliate marketing has to be one of the best ways to generate some kind of income online.

So without further a due here is a list of the best affiliate networks of 2012: