SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the practice of making your website attractive to search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.
Search engines regularly read and archive websites so that people can find them easily. For example, a person may be searching for ways to cook salmon. If your website is about salmon and optimized properly, your site should appear within the first page or two of every search engine.
What isn't SEO?
SEO is not about tricking search engines such as Alta Vista, Ask or Live.com.
What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization is about creating clean and detailed web pages that can be easily read by automated robots.
By following a basic set of rules and ensuring that you have the correct information in your source code along with keywords and other detailed information throughout a page, a search engine like Google will be able to easily read and catalog (or index) your page.
