If you already know the theory, sometimes it takes time to really put into practical. I had this difficulty as well. Even if you had apply all the necessary changes to your site, it might not reflect immediately, you will have to wait for search engine bot to crawl your site and  this take couple of days or weeks, depend on your pagerank. If something is not working well, you will have to go through waiting the same cycle again. It's quite time consuming, but anyhow, SEO need a lot of patient.

SEO for blogs could be different from other static site with minimal changes (refer to frequent post and content), unlike ecommerce or corporate site, blog are updated frequently. Sometimes you may find it difficult to actually aim a keyword or so, you won't be blogging the same keyword or title all the times. The good thing about blog is the frequency of change, the change refer to your posting. Search engine is smart enough to actually see the pattern changes in your site, example cnn.com site, search engine crawl that site every 10 to 15 minutes due to frequency of change. I personally don't have much time to write 3 posts per day, ideally 3 posts per day would make search engine actively crawl your site more often. Provided also on how popular topic of your content. Not all post have to be in lengthy articles, make it a primary post and 2 secondary posts, secondary posts can be just a few paragraphs and link to some useful links or video (Youtube). 

Optimized your site for search engine?
This is interesting part, I'm not SEO guru, but I'm interested in SEO, hope you do find this information useful as this is what I had compile from reading several source I come across.

Get lots of links back to your site
HOT & Interesting Title (This refer to blog) - This might be universal, for writer, they would think of an interesting title to captivate people to continue read more. But for blog or SEO, it could potentially lead people to link to your site. For example, I blog about Radio Blog and Blogmusik, I actually find out there are 2 or 3 music blog site or forum refer my post in their website. Most importantly or may be hard to always do this, your title should always have keyword related to your post.

Directory - No matter what seo book or seo site, they always refer you to get a link from DMOZ or Yahoo directory. Why? Because this 2 directory got pagerank 8. If you refer to Part 1 chart, you will notice DMOZ supplies directory results to 8 search engine (including Google). Yahoo supplies directory results to only 1 (alta vista) search engine. Yahoo is a paid directory and DMOZ is free. However, there are tons of free directory out there, try searching around and submit your url, please also link your site to my directory for free at bizolink directory (approve in 24 hours upon submit). Frankly to say that FREE is always nothing best, it's free because of low pagerank, it doesn't worth much to your site, but in long run, when the directory increases its pagerank, and you would get benefit from it.

Spy your competitor link coming from - I'm sorry to use the word spy, this is actually what it is. Some site would have visitor counter (sitemeter or statcounter) which is for public access. You can take a look at their referral to know actually where their visitors coming from, if they don't allow public access, you can actually use the google "link" parameter or yahoo "linkdomain" parameter to look for the backlink. This is good to actually know where your competitors get their link from and you could actually follow them. Don't forget to check your own visitor counter, the more direct link to your site is more better than more link from referral, because people come to your site because of your establish brand. They remembered your link not through referral link.

Swap link - If your site is working well, sometimes you would received email asking you to swap link with their website. This is because they would like to get some traffic from your site and also to bring up their pagerank (Mostly lower pagerank than your's). Is good to actually checked the site before swapping link, this is to prevent your site from downgrading of pagerank, if you link to a site that is banned or illegal site, your pagerank could get affected as well. If that's your friend, I guess it should be no problem. After all is a win-win situation. If you tend to swap link with others, prepared a good and polite email asking for link swapping and is nice to actually being proactive to add their link to your site first before sending them email to show your sincerity. You can't expect every email you sent will get reply, if you sent out 10 and get 1 reply, actually you are doing well.

Write and submit articles - What is so good about articles submission, this is probably the best way to get lots of link. Why? Because if you wrote an article and submit to recognized article submission site. You get a link from article submission site and probably hundred or thousand of publisher would go to recognized article submission site and seek for article to publish on their website. If your submitted content is good and useful, chances your article will get published by many other sites are high and condition your link must be there. Imagine 100 people publish your article, you got 100 links back to your site. Don't worry about publisher changing your article, they won't do extra work, if not they won't be going article submission site to source for article.

Useful article you might interested to read:

• How Real SEO Analysis Works
• SEO Keywords - the starting point
• SEO Basics (Keyword Research)
• SEO and PR – What’s the difference?
• Effective SEO Comes Cheap

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

When I started to setup a website, the biggest headache is not about programming, error, feature, content or design. The biggest problem I faced was that you have a website and who the hell know they exist, it's just like selling "ICE COLD TIGER BEER" in Sahara desert where there would be no one visiting. Yup, there are thousand of ways to increase website traffic, but the most effective ways is using search engine to draw traffic to your website. Hope you get some idea now what is SEO.

Sometimes, I do get asked by people as they know I’m running several sites, they would asked, how did you get Google to index your sites? I would say Googlebot came, take and go. I didn’t do anything (This is probably for new setup site); you wouldn’t know what they take and how they are going to index your site to be place in their search engine. You wouldn’t know how they ranked the site to be place on the First page or maybe several hundred pages behind. Many that we know thinks you got to pay (not referring to Google Adwords) to be listed on the first page first link? Alright, it’s actually not, SEO is what it meant for, knowing all the myths that search engines like and don’t like, make your site to be more search engine friendly.

When we talk about search engine like and dont' like, please take the don't seriously, you wouldn't want to mess with search engine, if they don't like you, they would just banned your site, and all I can say, that's the end of your hardwork. Since google is the top search engine, I would refer Google, visit Google Guidelines for more information. If somehow your site was not being indexed by Google, probably some problem with your site here.

What is Search Engine Optimization SEO actually is?
Search Engine Optimization is known as making your site to be more friendly to search engine. so that search engine will visit your site more frequent and index your site to be listed in higher rank. Some of the method for effective SEO is using the right keyword in your content and also HTML code(Picture Title). Organize and designing your site properly (such as minimize your site using frame or flash).

Why search engine is important to your website?
Search engine is important because 85% of website you see today is being traffic by search engines. Around 70% of searchers don't go to page 2 of search results. 42% of users will click on the no 1. result. 81% of searchers find new website through search engine.

More sources of search engine user behaviour: knewworld

How search engine decide my site to put in first page result?
Search engine has complex algorithms to determine whether your site is useful and should be included in the search engine's search results. A "Spiders" or "Robots" send by search engine is to crawl your site and index your contents, with the information, search engine will determine your contents ranking. You can get high ranking only if your content is relevant by search engine base on keywords. (The decision also depends on Pagerank and Keyword prominent on your content).

What is pagerank?
Pagerank is introduced by Google to determine how popular the site is. To determine how popular the site is, it depend on how many links from other relevant website link to the site, the more link (inbound links) the site has, the more important it is and the higher its ranking. Which mean if the site has more link from others site. It mean that the site is important enough to stay in higher rank. Also, if the site was being link by higher pagerank, the site will get a higher pagerank as well.  Pagerank is just one of the method use by search engine to determine your site pagerank. Even if you have a good pagerank and lack of other method search engine use to determine ranking, your site won't be in higher search engine ranking.

Tips for better pagerank:

• The link should come from relevant sites such as using the same keywords
• The link should come from higher pagerank site
• The link should come from a page that links to few other sites.

What SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools you recommend?
Below is a list of tools which you can use to ease you for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). All the tools are free, however you will have limitation to use it per day.

Google PageRank Prediction This predictor tool does what it says, it predicts your future Google PageRank.

Backlink Checker Find those backlinks linking to you, their Description, Language and Size.

All-in-One Lookup Retrieve a number of information about a detail including age of domain, speed, Dmoz listings, Current PageRank, Predicted PageRank, Alexa Ranking, Backlinks, Listings on Google/MSN/Yahoo and Website’s competition.

Visual PageRank View the PageRank of links visually rather than in text.

Link Popularity Find how many links your domain has on the most common search engines.

PageRank Checker Check your website’s Google PageRank on multiple Google datacenters. The PageRank varies from server to server.

Website Speed Test Find out how fast your website loads. Too slow? Perhaps you need to optimize the page or move to a faster server.

Rank Checker Use this online tool to see what your ranking is. Find out how popular your website is to users and search engines. Also, find out how many search engines linked to your website.

Search Engine Position Use this tool to chek what search engine position you have for Google and Yahoo.

Google Banned Checker This tool will analyze your domain with Google search to detect if the domain is banned.

Useful article you might interested to read:

• Golden Rules for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Top 10 Little Used SEO Strategies
• The Biggest SEO Scam of All
• SEO Stoopid!
• Complete SEO Tutorial - Start from the beginning!

I guess many people will know that posting good content article to site like ezine articles can help people as well as you can get some traffic from the site. Since ezine articles are strict in getting article posting to their site, therefore it takes me 2 days to prepare this article. Guess my effort is worthy, benefits of writting article to be listed in site like ezine articles is more than just traffics. You could get a better pagerank and also better creditability on the content you wrote. 

If you are new to ezine articles, you should never miss out as there is a lot of articles which could be very helpful to you.

Useful article you might interested to read:

• 3 Steps To Quickly Writing Ezine Articles
• 10 Winning Ezine Publishing Tips
• How To Develope Content For Your Ezine Without Having To Write Your Own Articles
• Ezine Advertising Strategy Exposed-16 Tips To Boost Your Profits
• Making money with Internet… but how?

Something really funny, if you're idle on the page, you'll see ms Dewey knocking your monitor pointing you where you could possibly type in something to search. If you keep on idle, she'll then angry and then just giving up on you.

Try enter ipod for the search, she'll just make fun of your search. Haha..Have fun trying it out.

Useful article you might interested to read:

• 10 Basic Search Engine Preparation Tips
• Can Pinging Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings?
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Fix Your OffPage!
• Beginners - Getting Listed In Search Engines
• How to Get Your Site Listed in the Major Search Engines