SEO is important too
As it turns out, a lot of people make a lot of money just by showing ads on their blogs. The reason they make money is because they get a lot of traffic through search engines (such as Google). A lot of traffic through search engines is a direct result of SEO (a lot of people including me will tell you that it is also a result of content, but you still need SEO).
One of the most common requirements for SEO is that other sites link to you. Now this can happen spontaneously, where you can be linked to by a lot of people because you had great content. But that is not a guarantee – chances are that you don’t have such content. There are other means of obtaining these incoming links as well. One technique which is quite popular (though I am not sure if it works, as I have never done it myself) is to submit your site to a number of free web directories. Some of these directories also offer you advice on SEO as well as tools to measure your SEO efforts (such as the one I linked to).
Well, I haven’t tried these, and I know nothing in this world comes for free, so if any of you have tried this, please leave a comment citing your experience.