Oky, Let me spill out some of the darh2005 techniques I have been using so far.

1. Social Bookmarking

2. Optimize your header.php

3. Don’t Forget your permalinks which should be customized to be search engine friendly.

4. Get a plugin that will give you SEO pack for your blog.

5. Submit your blog to Yahoo, Google, MSN.

6. Create your sitemap.

After such, you can now join the seocontest2008.

Oh well, the rest of the lessons will be yours to research on. I think I would recommend tellfound.net for you read on SEO.