Thursday, January 20, 2011

SEO in simple words


SEO or search engine optimization is basically a collection of methods that are needed by your website in order to achieve a better ranking in the search engine results page. Sounds complicated? Not really. I will try my best to explain it to you in a very simple way.

When you are online and trying to find a product or a piece of information, just like everybody else, you use the search engines. You would type in whatever you are looking for, example “dresses”. The search engines would then look at all the websites on the internet that are related to dresses. It would generate a list of websites arranged according to the relevance of the site to your keyword.

Now, most people would only be interested in looking at the results on the first page of the search results. Only a few would bother to look at the second and third pages of the search results. As a website owner (myself included), it is your goal to get your site on the first page. Do not worry; this can be achieved by using the proper SEO tools on your site.

The different SEO methods aim to let the search engines know or be aware of your website. These search engines would be looking for several things like backlinks, keywords, title tags, meta description on your site. If they like what they see, they would index your site and give it a high page rank.

This is just an overview of what SEO really is. There are more facets to this technique that would greatly benefit your site if done properly.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for share the wonderful information about the Search engine optimization. It is great and informative article it encourage to do right SEO for a website. I really appreciate this article.

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