One of the biggest sources of traffic for your blog or site has to be the big search engines: Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Blogs in particular are ideally suited to generating lots of targeted traffic from organic search engine listings since they appeal to the search engine algorithms by their very nature.

Lots of content, regularly updated, lots of incoming links, these are all basic blog traits which the search engines love. There are, however, lots of tweaks and improvements you can make to your site which will help to improve your rankings and attract more visitors. From Link building to careful keyword selection and placement, proper use of alt and title tags, to the anchor text you use for internal linking, it all makes a difference!

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can seem like a bit of a black art, but it’s really not that hard to learn enough to make a real difference There are several free resources for learning SEO and applying it to your blog or site but the one I highly recommend is:

SEO Chat which is is a great site packed with forums, tools are articles.

If you can afford it though, by far the most powerful resource available for SEO is Aaron Wall’s SEO BOOK training program which will teach you how to increase your traffic by dominating the search engines in no time.

I’ll be posting my top 5 tips for improving your search engine optimization over the weekend so be sure to come back and read them. In the meantime check out these resources and have fun!