Over the last few weeks we’ve had a considerable number of Elite members ask about traffic generation, SEO (search engine optimization) and particularly about how to drive organic traffic to their blogs.

So to really get into the details on this topic you’ll find below an entire 40 part video course that covers exactly how to get the best from your blog.  First up let’s talk about SEO…

SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, and it is essentially the process of preparing and promoting your website for the search engines.

Whenever someone wants to find something on the internet, they use a search engine. The search engines have an incredible task, they need to find relevant results for searches that people perform. Optimizing your site means that you are spending time getting it ready to it will hopefully rank in the search engines. This will bring traffic to your website.

To get started watch the first video below and you’ll discover what SEO is and how you can apply it to WordPress:

Search engine optimization (SEO) is very important if you ever want to gain decent rankings in the search engine. Even though the word “SEO” can sound terribly intimidating, actually applying it to your blog is no where near as hard as it sounds. All you have to do is invest some initial time into learning the basics, and soon your blog will be better than 90% of the others out there, simply because you have SEO.

In Video #2 we’ll cover exactly why you need to optimize:

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Before we go further, let’s review the basic principles of on-page optimization. As we move forward in these videos, you will see these tactics applied (along with many more advanced concepts) to a blog.

For a basics overview of on-page optimization watch Video #3. Read the rest of this entry

Before we start breaking things down one step at a time, you will need to download and install a few plugins. Please take the time now to download all of these plugins (if you don’t want to use some of them, that’s okay):

All in One SEO
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Google XML Sitemaps
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

No Duplicate
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-no-duplicate/

SEO Friendly Images
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/

Redirection
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

Subscribing to Comments
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/

Google Analytics
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress

Popularity Contest
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popularity-contest/

Related Posts
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/

WP Polls
http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-polls.html

You can learn more about what these plugins will do in video #4 below: Read the rest of this entry