What is SEO or Search Engine Optimization? It’s a question on minds of many people. I am sure most of you have heard of search engine optimization, how important it is, and how it can effect the success or failure of your blog. Some of you may know it very well and some might not. You keep hearing about it, but are clueless, and have no idea what Search Engine Optimization actually is. And obviously if you don’t even know what SEO is, how can you implement it to better your blog? Of course you can’t! In order to take advantage of SEO, you must understand what it is and how it works. Here is an easy to understand explanation of what search engine optimization is.
Search Engine Optimization is one of the most important factors of any successful blog/website. Search Engine Optimization is a process of choosing the most appropriate targeted keyword phrases related to your site and ensuring that this ranks your site highly in search engines so that when someone searches for specific phrases it returns your site on tops. It basically involves fine tuning the content of your site along with the HTML and Meta tags and also involves appropriate link building process. The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL and Ask Jeeves.
We all know that the Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, and for good reasons. It helps them to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results, while deterring spam pages from clogging those results.
Many factors are considered by search engines while ranking the listings. These factors will change from time to time depending on circumstances. Algorithms can differ so widely that a web page that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine.
When you build your blog or website, one of the first things we are advised to do is to submit our blog/site to search engines. Although you can skip this process by building backlinks using a well established site. A simple link from a well established site will get the search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It may take a few days or even few weeks from the referring of a link from such an established site for all the main search engine spiders to commence visiting and indexing the new site, but it’s well worth it. Remember your references on your resume? Well Consider this as if your references (which happen to be very well-known and trusted) are calling the new employer telling you are good and are who you say you are.
Search engine optimization requires a lot of knowledge and continuously hard work. There are many different things you can do for optimizing your blog for search engines, and there are many different ideas and methods floating around regarding SEO. But, one thing is for sure, search engine optimization is a never ending process. To stay on top, you have to be constantly adapting and working on your blog/site’s SEO. The moment you stop working on it, your competition is going to push you aside and take your place. Although its a lot of hard work and its time consuming, search engine optimization is well worth the effort.
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Terrific Information, my friend!
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Thank You again for sharing this good post!
Hey Satrap,
Yes I agree, a Hi PR backlink can really kick your site into the index.
I have also found that social bookmarking and submitting RSS feeds helps big time!
Nice post.
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Good overview, Satrap. I especially like your resume analogy. A little more detail on building authority, on-site and off-site factors would be an interesting read for many I think.
Excellent article. Ultimately, a well-written, relevant site will naturally attract backlinks and rank well, but you also need to know how to send the right “signals” to the SEs. Thanks again.
I couldn’t agree more Sarah, knowing how to make your content stand out and be spotted by search engines is the most important part of SEO.