Search Engine Optimization is the way PEOPLE find YOU through search engines like Yahoo!, Google, MSN, etc.

SEO is the only way that improves your traffic from search engines.

So how you do it. To make it more clearer to you, let me give you an example.

Let’s say I want to post content on my website, concerning Dogs. And I want people to know how to take care of their dogs. So I will be using words or phrases like "Dog Caring, Dog Parenting, etc".

I use it as OFTEN as I want to, and besides the more, the better.

So, I use Dog Caring and Dog Parenting. And when I go to Google or Yahoo 48 Hours later, I’m on the first page of the search results.

Why?

Because I’ve used "Dog Caring and/or Dog Parenting" as much as I could possibly use appropriately, and I got indexed.

So if you talk about "Affiliate Marketing for instance", you will use Affiliate Marketing as much as you can.

Hope this helps!

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

The acronym "SEO" can also refer to "search engine optimizers," a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term "search engine friendly" may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems and shopping carts that are easy to optimize.

Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or Spamdexing, use methods such as link farms and keyword stuffing that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their indices.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.

And the very last category – "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Good luck!

I blog on high ranking sites related to my website and each blog piece points back at me. I am constantly revising my site as I see small things that are successful for increasing my traffic.

Title page names have been renamed to pick up higher search rankings, I have italic key words in my language on the pages, I have bold keywords in my paragraphs for help, I have underlined keywords in my paragraphs for extra help. I have shoved in extra keyword phrases for the benefit of search engines.

All these help, understand web crawlers and related machines might take up to several weeks to read your site after changes, nothing is instant.

I google myself in many ways and click at least everyday. I bit of faster help. It is tough, however I do it myself because SEO is expensive to pay somebody for.