This post is simply a introduction to SEO, what SEO is, how you can perform SEO, how it can be your advantage and a small introduction to link building, if you fail to understand something regrading SEO or link building, I'm more then happy to answer your questions, I'd prefer you to make a reply to help other users, as they probably will have the same questions, but feel free to private message me if you really have to.

SEO stands for Search engine optimization, which is a multi trillion dollar business, don't believe me? Companies pay thousands every month for a SEO expert to get them to the top of Google, which you may of guessed from the name, SEO is optimizing websites for search engines, to achieve a higher ranking.

There are two core types of SEO, on-page SEO and off-page SEO, which you may of guessed are on page and off page to a website, on-page SEO is all about how search engines read your website, keyword optimization, h1/h2/h3 tags, alt tags etc. Off page SEO is link building, but thats a larger topic all together.

Ranking #1 for a keyword can easily bring you in thousands of unique highly targeted visitors, why would they search the keyword, if they were not interested in it? So it's the BEST way to get targeted traffic, apart from pay-per-click traffic.

Link building is quite simple, if you have a link on another website, which is clickable, it's called a backlink, a link back to your website, link building is when you build these links, there are a load of ways to do this, some of them are blog commenting, forum sigs and web 2.0 (SENUKE etc)

There are two types of backlink, dofollow and nofollow, only a few search engines care about these tags, Google being one of them, as Google is the worlds biggest search engine, it's something you need to take anote of. Dofollow backlinks pass link juice, which can improve your websites pagerank (More on this in another topic maybe?) And nofollow, which doesn't carry over link juice, but are still useful.

Generally speaking, the more backlinks you have using a keyword, the higher your ranking can be, this is how the "google bush exploit" or whatever happened, this is known as google bombing, which is a prime example of good link building.

Anyway, that's really about it, if this topic gets a good response, I'll write some more in depth articles about SEO, link building etc. SEO is the best method of affilate marketing (Aside from PPC), definitely the best free traffic method out there, you can use SEO for anything.

- Website promotion
- Affiliate promotion
- Virus promotion
- Software promotion