SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can be defined as the process of enhancing or increasing your website's or blog's ranking folks !.
Okay, If you want to know what's the rank of your blog, then go to www.alexa.com and insert a widget into your blog.
SEO is a simple strategy, the higher your website ranks when a surfer searches for a certain keyword, the more traffic you are going to recieve. Thus the keywords in your websites always matters a lot. So you need to choose targeted keywords or phrases to form the contents to your site ensuring that these words will match with the search keywords that the surfer enters. Its all like matching game, to make it simple I am giving an example, Suppose a surfer searches for the term " Blogging " in Google search, these are the websites which google gives after searching the internet in rankwise
1. wikipedia
2. blogger.com
3. problogger.com
4. codex.wordpress.org
5. clubblogger.com
And here is the secret, your blog or website may be all about blogging or anything related to it. But unless and otherwise your blog's SEO process is good such that it ranks in top 5 or top 10 of the search results of any search engines like Google,Yahoo, Live search or Ask for a particular keyword or phrase, You may not recieve heavy traffic. Thus the secret to heavy traffic is always SEO.
