SEO (search engine optimization) can be summed up as the tasks and the actions you need to do to attract more traffic to your website or your blog.

To increase the traffic on your website or on your blog, you really need to read, learn and know the nitty-gritty of the internet. Web CEO is a great place for help you do that.

If you can invest some time into SEO, you will come to know that SEO is not at all a difficult thing, you actually can learn them all by being patient and by doing some of work it yourself.

The infographic below is from Matt at Datadial.net. It covers everything from basic keyword research concepts, through site architecture, page optimisation, link building, SEO tactics, social media, and some basic SEO and PPC click through stats and explanations. Hope you find it helpful in your journey to SEO success.

Biotech and Healthcare

1) Social Networking and Health (Health Internet Radio Show)
2) physician ratings (Health Behavior News Service)
3) AIDS Drug Assistance Program Crisis (The PBS NewsHour)

Business and Finance

4) Social Media Marketing Strategies
5) Healthcare Hospital Administration (Equal Opportunity Magazine)
6) Consumers hassled over old, charged-off debt
7) Updated Web Sites (UBM)
Fundraising in Latin America (PEI)
9) Need Female Business Authors
10) What should be in a business operating plan for an LLC? (National Magazine)
11) Common Tax Mistakes (TheStreet)
12) building security (Multifamily Executive)
13) Inspirational Women (Online Business Site for Women)
14) How to deal with people that tell you NO! (Self Help Book)
15) mental toughness examples (research article)
16) Expert needed for embezzlement story (Lodi News-Sentinel)
17) ASSOCIATION MEETINGS WITH COMMUNITY-SERVICE COMPONENTS (National Trade Magazine)
18) Human Resource Professionals & Gym Owners (Trade Publication)
19) Cheap Dates
20) How Much is Too Much Government Involvement With Home Owners?

Education

21) Preteen sleepovers – tips for parents not party ideas (regional parenting publications nationwide)
22) Educational Advocate (Total Education Network)
23) Reggio Emilia (Demand Media)
24) Looking for Experts in African American History (National Geographic Museum Blog)
25) Copywriter of articles, promotional materials, book author. (Haylake Business Communications)

Energy and Green Tech

26) Fuel Ethanol Cleaning Processes

Entertainment and Media

27) Roundup of Charitable Events/Fundraisers for 2011 (Vivanista)
28) Bulletstorm and video game violence (Major news)
29) Seeking Extraordinary Kids and Teens (Entertainment Studios)

General

30) Law Enforcement Input Needed (Freelance)
31) Personal Stories for Upcoming Book (New Book)
32) spring break safety (Demand Media)
33) Looking to interview homeowner who’s realtor used “lifestyle marketing” to sell their home (MetroWest Daily News)
34) Tips for Midlife Women Looking For Mr. Right (ebook)
35) Looking for interior decorators (Content that works)
36) Ordinary Americans who decided to stay in Cairo despite protests (Arabia Inform)
37) Alternatives to the Stuffy Briefcase (My Life Scoop)
38) saving on valentine’s (online)

39) Trouble filing your taxes? (CBS Early Show)
40) Handling awkward situations (KNXV-TV)
41) What Vegas needs to be cool (Vegas Magazine)
42) Book Publishing’s Marketing Campaigns (Available Upon Request)

High Tech

43) How Much Did You Get for iPhone? (AOL)

Lifestyle and Fitness

44) Custom Shower Design from Concept to Execution (Lowes for Pros)
45) Plumbing a Custom Shower or Vertical Spa (Lowes for Pros)
46) Inspiring Reinvention Stories (The Saturday Evening Post)
47) Can sleeping with your pet make you sick?
48) Moms & Bloggers – Favorite Family Recipes Needed (Ebook)
49) Long distance parenting & tech (Yahoo Shine)
50) Personal Branding BTR Show needs questions!
51) Cultural Products for Kids (NBC San Antonio)
52) Beauty Product Differentiation (Be You Only Better and the Atlanta Examiner)
53) Pediatrician & Child Psychiatrist Opinion on Benefits of Kids Yoga (Freelance Article)
54) Celebrity Parents on Kids Yoga (National Magazine)
55) nasty bachelor pads (msnbc.com)
56) women + risk-taking: ISO anecdotes, experts (women’s magazine)
57) Need a Speed-Dating Expert (And Now Media)
58) benefits of chocolate (online)
59) Recipes NEEDED (She Knows)
60) Pets and your health (She Knows)
61) Mood-lifting foods (She Knows)
62) Favorite conversation starters (She Knows)
63) Sports psychologists to discuss getting off an exercise plateau (Major online site)
64) Looking to interview a DENTIST for some reader Q&As; – deadline is TODAY (Life & Beauty Weekly)
65) Looking for a chic little tennis dress! (WAG Magazine (luxury lifestyle magazine in suburban NYC))
66) Home haircuts (Studio One Networks)

Sports

67) 1942 college football season players (Book)
68) Sports in elementary schools (Vegreville Observer)

Travel

69) travel blog / podcast
70) Miami Adventures (National Blog)
71) Best of Park City, UT (Dotting The Map)
72) Strategies for Free Vacation stuff

See, basically, HARO is a place where it brings a large number of reporters and bloggers everyday with over 100,000 news sources and thousands of small businesses together to tell their stories, promote their brands and sell their products and services.

It is a widely-used social media service that enables journalists to connect with the right source, and grants everyone – from home-based entrepreneurs to large businesses – access to reporters who may write about them.

According to the report, HARO has published more than 75,000 journalist queries, has facilitated nearly 7,500,000 media pitches, and has marketed and promoted close to 1,500 brands to the media, small businesses and consumers.

Then what is in it for marketers?

Unlike a majority of social media services, HARO is independently owned and funded. It serves as a vital social networking resource for sources. It is entirely free to sources and for reporters to use.

Think about this, you, as a marketer or affiliate marketer – if the offer of your product or services got found by reporters, or if you business, your brand can grab the attention of reporters, they will use the info or write about you in their report and publish it to the CNN, CBS, Fox, Niche Media, News Corporation, AP, Reuters and etc, not only you will get whole lots of backlinks, it also helps you get your business out quickly.

In the other words, it will help your business reach a ridiculously large and targeted audience who actually listens and is looking for what you’re promoting and selling.

Building backlinks is crucial for a website to growing your online business and making it a success. You probably learn or heard lots of talks about – the more diverse your backlink sources are, the more weight search engines will given them.

In order to keep your sources diverse while you add backlinks, continue working on and find new people in your niche who are influential in the niche market you are in, who would like to link to you become an important task to do.

This is where Twitter and WeFollow come in. WeFollow is a website that is a Twitter directory of sorts.

You can search by keyword and find Twitters who have identified themselves as connected with the query. For example, here’s what a search for ‘travel’ turned up:

From above graphic you can see the list of people who are tweeting in your niche, also a count of their followers that includes a breakdown of how many of their followers are new, from the statistics you can see whether their influence is growing or it has reached a plateau.

Building your list of backlinks is a much-needed major effort. Backlinks boost your search engine results page ranking, it creates new traffic paths to your site and your blog, it enhances your site’s visibility and its presence online. Backlinks are not only important to your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, it also important for your general business efforts.

WeFollow gives you a good list of leads and people, thus, you should start building relationships with them to increase your backlinks. The easiest thing to do is to start following them, and check out their websites, reach out to them, let them know if you like their content, or if you retweet their tweets. Once you have established a connection or pattern of communication, you can request a backlink.

However, bear in mind of that – don’t just go for the clear leaders, those with the most followers, because it is harder to get a backlink from those with millions of followers, go for someone who has just thousands followers. It is true that link up with authority sites are great, but diverse sources provide power for your optimization efforts as well.

In the mean while, don’t forget to Follow us on Twitter, we are looking forward to see your tweets.

Another popular tool is Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics) – the most widely used web analytics application. This tool can generate up to 85 different reports that will help you analyze all possible data about your website traffic. It is not only tracks visitors to your site or the number of page views, it can be used to see which content gets the most visits, time on site per visit, which ads are driving the most visitors to your site, it track the performances of your marketing campaigns, including AdWords, Adsense and emails and much, much more. All that is required to get start is to get a FREE Google account.

Example, for to understand where are the traffic sources come from, you will see there are 4 types data info graphic displayed on your analystics account dashboard – Direct Traffic, Referring Sites Traffic and Search Engine Traffic.

Direct Traffic: You can’t expect this traffic to more than other two types of traffic unless your blog is as popular as Google or Facebook which most of the user visit by directly typing the url or by clicking on their bookmarks.

Referring Sites Traffic: This is the second way where traffic came to your blog, a referring site is one which has a link to your site. The best way to increase referring sites traffic is to write unique content or tutorial, when other site copies your article and publish it to their site, they provide you a referring link.

Search Engine Traffic: Of all the traffic, this is the traffic on which you have to concentrate the most. This traffic is also referred to as ‘organic’ traffic, it comes from various search engine. Thus, your main aim should focus on to increase the percentage of this traffic.

So there you go – two really simple ways you can get started with tracking and monitor the traffic of your blog.

Between two of these very popular services used to track blog traffic, there are some important differences in between them in the way of collecting the data.

Awstats uses a data collection method called logfile analysis. Every server stores information on visitors in a document known as a logfile, this includes all requests made by other computers and also it tracks what it has delivered to visitors. Logfile analysis uses this data to determine how many people have visited your website.

Google Analytics, on the other hand, uses page tagging; what it does is to use JavaScript on the visitor’s computer to ping the Google Analytics server, and to let it knows that one visitor has been visit your blog or your site.

The advantage of using Awstats is that it displays raw undeniable data of the number of visitors to your blog and your website, which is more accurate than using Google Analytics.

Google Analytics, however, displays more information about your visitor’s habits, such as how long they stayed on your site, what is the bounce rate, where are the traffic sources come from, what are the most searched keywords etc. This is more useful data that Internet marketers can use to tweak their sale letters with.

As we all know, Google is the big daddy for all the webmasters, it even given them a rap on the knuckles if they are toeing the line it has set for everyone. And we all know what will happen to those people who employ unacceptable methods like to use black hat SEO techniques to get the blogs ranking higher. However, come to think about that, everything has a loophole and there are many loopholes in Google’s ways as well.

One of the things you could do without any problem is to get Google to think that your wordpress blog is getting a lot of organic backlinks, which can get easily done actually.

What you have to do is this – on the first day, add 2 backlinks to your wp blog, on the next day, add 4, then add 5, follow by maybe add 8; do this for a few weeks at a stretch, without missing a day, just dding more backlinks every day, it helps in building link acceleration.

When Google sees that your website or your blog is getting more and more links, it will thinks that your site is gaining in popularity, it thinks more people are gaining an interest in your website, and therefore it thinks your website or your blog has relevant material that people are coming forth to read. That is the reason, Google starts ranking your website better.

But when you build up those blacklinks, at the same time, you have to make sure your on-page factors (it is more about things like keyword optimization, using the right title tags, using less HTML, using the right fonts and images, etc) are all impeccable, because in the process of your SEO campaign, the on-page factors remains very important, you have to make sure you are using the right keywords with using the right amount percentage of density, so that you have the all-important on-page leverage when your traffic actually starts visiting your website and your blog.

To do a good on-page wordpress blog SEO, this is the tool you need to use to help you speed things up and achieve results faster.

For those who believe more in off-page factors, they won’t give much regard to all these on-page SEO points, but they will think more about how to generating more traffic through backlinks and other similar methods.

If your wordpress blogs don’t use much of on-page factors but trusts implicitly on off-page optimization, you really need to put its act together. In sheer numbers, such a site will have to get 10 times more backlinks than the website that has good on-page factors.

To learn and gain more knowledge about SEO, read this Free Weekly Search Engine Optimization SEO News, it helps.

Watch below this video and learn what Matt says about how tag clouds could help or hinder seo, or do they have no effect?

One way to make your videos to easy find on Google is to use video sitemaps, you need to creating and submitting sitemap to Google and tell them exactly where and what the video content is on your site. This will help it get picked up by the Googlebots and be fully searchable on Google Video.

We all know that importance of search traffic to online business, there is an entire industry dedicated to improving website’s visibility in search engine results: Search Engine Marketing (SEM).

However, when it comes to driving traffic and being discovered by potential new customers, how can a website compete for high rankings using only white hat techniques in the industries that are dominated by spammers if Google takes months to react to spam reports and by that time new black hat sites are ranking?

Below this video will walk you through towards how to compete with those black, gray hat techniques to get yourself stay away from those link farms and let your site stand out.

Speeding up websites is important, it is not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and increase conversions. When a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. Faster sites don’t just improve user experience and satisfaction, it also reduces operating costs, according to Google.

If you are a site owner, webmaster or a web author, you need to watch this below video. Even site speed is a new signal for Google, it doesn’t carry as much weight as the relevance of a page. But it is good to start looking at your site’s speed (there are some free tools Maile suggested to use in the video provide a great starting point) – not only to improve your ranking in search engines, but also to improve everyone’s experience on the Internet.