Thread: What is SEO and help in setting up a website?

I am looking to set up a website for a new business that I am just starting and although I am familiar with the pc and the internet, I am struggling to find out what SEO is. Also, as costs are limited, can I do it myself?

SEO stands for search engine optimization . the purpose of SEO is promoting your website on google.com

SEO is an effective marketing strategy which helps in promoting a website organically.
It tells us how search engines interact and how users inculcate marketing strategies to make websites gain traffic and revenue.
SEO ranges from discovery of the keywords and phrases that will generate traffic, to making a site search engine friendly, to building the links and making your social media reputation.
Investing in SEO, whether through time or finances, can have an exceptional rate of return.
Refer to this SEO starter guide
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
Yes you can definitely do SEO on your own as there are plenty of web resources like
-Search engine land
-Search engine watch
-Problogger
-Search engine roundtable
-Wikihow
-SEOMOZ
and many good books on SEO too.