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Web designer in need of seo help for portfolio help.. thanks!?

I am a web designer who has good experience in web design. What i am doing now is designing a portfolio site for myself in hopes of getting more business. I have read so many online seo sites and forums but i cant get my site a reasonable page-rank. If someone can look at my site and give me tips or refer me to an affordable and effective seo service that would be great. My site is urlocalwebdesigner.com (also if have any tips on my site that would be awesome to Thank you so much!!!!
both these answers are outstanding thanx so much…. first few quesitons about the answers:

Sean: thanks a lot for the tips about the contemporary and gradient, your totally right about the look. And the services page is going to come up soon, i just starting working on my portfolio last week! And what do you mean by putting location in meta? how do i do that?

Web design midlands: great seo answer. Lot of info i did not realize. Questions:
1. whats the reasons to stop using tables? I always do.
2. what do you mean by the <hi> tags? how does that help?

Thank you so much
Web design midlands: thanks for the follow up! What i was doing before instead of the <h1> tags was finding keyword in my test in the body and putting a <b> tag to make it bold. I heard thats true. And for www thing, im going to use google webmaster tools, they can set that up. And one more question, is there anyway to set my location? Because i do my sites in south florida (boca raton, palm beach etc.) like if someone types in google "boca raton affordable web designer", i really want my site to come up because thats exactly me! Thanks.
And how expensive is your seo service. And honestly, would it really be more effective then what i am already doing? Thank you so much.

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