Search Engine Optimization (SEO) will help place your site higher in the natural search engine rankings. By natural, we mean free, as opposed to pay-per-click advertising. So by optimizing your site for the search engines, you will receive free traffic.

SEO revolves around two major processes; on-site optimization and off-site optimization. On-site includes anything that you control on your site. So title tags, content, linking structure within your site and all other factors on your pages. Off-site is everything else. This means all the links to your site from other sites on the Internet.

Between on-site and off-site optimization your site's rankings are determined. Therefore, you need to have a solid understanding of these two processes in order to optimize your site.