Eh, I personally believe SEO'ing is overrated. I've had my main site for 5 years now and never bothered to do SEO or anything close on it, and it's still either at the very top, or at the top. In my very humble and layman's opinion, content is king.
I am having problem getting my sitemap done. Everytime I have an "&" in my url on my sitemap.xml file, it gave me an error. DOes it mean I have to use "&" instead of "&" on my url get variables? barterpalace.com/sitemap.xml