Here are some quick Keyword and SEO tricks and tips to get your blog traffic increasing:

1) Do do keyword research – meaning do understand what words and phrases people use when searching for products or information that you have or want to have on your blog or Website. Click on this link to read a basic tutorial on Keyword Research

2) Do use a quality keyword tool (Google adwords keyword tool at a minimum Here is a link to a great set of free Google tools).

I suggest that if you spend money one place you spend it on a quality keyword software system like Keyword Elite 2.0 or Keyword research pro. Here is a link to a review of Keyword Elite 2.0 and Here is a link to a review of Keyword research Pro.

3) Do try to focus each page on one or 2 keywords or keyword phrases

4) Do use the keywords in the page title and sprinkled thru out the article on that page.

5) Do Use a quality wordpress keyword plugin like Keyword Statistics to understand what your page contains from a keyword sense and to generate the title, Description and Keyword Meta tags

6) Don't sweat the keyword meta tag as most of the big search engines don't drive off it any more.

7) Do Make sure your title and description have your keyword(s) that you want to focus on that page.

Don't try to put every keyword you found on your main page. You won't get ranked for them all and it will just be a waste of time.

9) Don't Try to focus on the keywords with the most searches per month. If your blog or Website is new there is no way you will get in the first 10 pages of the Google search results for a keyword with 40,000 searches per month if you are not an SEO Expert.

10) So Do focus on lesser used terms and long tailed keywords. For example instead of trying to get ranked #1 on Google for Dogs. What about trying to get a page #1 on Google for "Great dogs for kids".

11)  Don't sweat keyword density. Here is a link to an article that tells you why its not so important anymore