What is Search engine optimization (SEO)?

[An Average Joe]

I have been learning this myself and have had some success, however I am not really all that happy with the results.

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.