In one of my previous posts, I listed 65 ways to get traffic to your blog. Well, let me tell you that of all these ways in bringing traffic to your blog, the best way is through what you call search engine optimization.

What is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization or simply SEO is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to your web site or blog site from search engines among other methods which include “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results and link exchange to name a few.

Now, what exactly does SEO mean? When you typed a certain keyword in search engines, say Google, the aim of search engine optimization is have your website appear on top of the search results. The higher the rank your website has, the better for your traffic. Search engines provides the best sources of traffic to your site.


So how do you do search engine optimization or SEO? There are a lot of ways and I will list them below:

Link Building. The single most important in search engine optimization is link building. There are two ways to build links - internal links and external links. Internal links are links within your website. If you've noticed the link I made in the very first sentence of this post, that's an example of an internal link.

Meanwhile, external links, as the name implies are links coming from other blog sites or websites, thus it's called external. One such example is the article I made how to become a millionaire which points to my other blog - Millionaire Acts.

Keywords. Keywords are the words that search engine users type in search engines. Keywords are the heart and soul of link building. You need to determine the keywords that you will use in building links. In my example above, I chose "How to Become a Millionaire" as my keyword.

Link Exchanges. Link exchanges are also one of the ways in building links. Link exchanges means communication with other bloggers to trade links of each other's blog. You can either see these link exchanges through their blog's sidebar more commonly known as blogroll.