if you can buy a tool like clip bump it will assist you in writing SEO articles but its damn expensive.before you buy the tool make sure you put content that is attractive to the engines and human ears.
Often to BBS SEO has a quite long learning curve, It takes sometime before you get the hang of it. I would suggest doing simple high quality backlink methods, Web 2.0 profiles or articles are good and not considered as spam as much as blog comments and forum profiles.
The best thing to start with would be definitely Google seo starter guide. It will help you to be familiar with general terms to be used in seo. You would need to than implement that practically to get an idea how seo is been done. You can gradually keep learning by following forums like DP as well as other content loads of content that is available on the net.
Traffic doesn't come overnight. It takes time. Also have you properly optimized your blog to be visible in search engines. A complete seo process needs to be followed to get traffic on your site. Try to get your blog ranked on some keywords so that it would be visible and henceforth can bring traffic.
hi friend, there many SEO forums and discussion website, SEO chat, http://seoforums.org search engine news, and other SEO website which is give you a lot of knowledge about SEO,