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What Is Search Engine Optimization? An Introduction
Any business whos serious about establishing a strong web presence have to maximise the traffic and exposure from search engines because they are capable of driving millions of potential customers to a business. Search engine optimisation (SEO) refers to the methods and techniques that can improve a websites ranking (or visibility) on search engine results. There is a whole industry devoted to SEO.
To understand search engine optimisation, one must first understand how search engines compile their results.
How do search engines generate search results
Search engine companies have created computer programs that robotically scan the internet and gather information on all the websites they find. These computer programs or bots are called spiders because their job is to crawl the web. These crawlers download information from each website, which are then stored in the search engines database.
When someone carries out a search, the search engine compares the search keyword(s) against the information in their database. In a fraction of a second, search engines powerful super computers search through billions of websites in their database and pick out a list that match the users criteria. Websites that are deemed most relevant are displayed at the top of the search results.
Each search engine has its own unique proprietary formula to determine relevance and the exact formulas are usually closely guarded trade secrets. It is said Googles formula contains over 200 variables. Although the exact formulas are unknown, there are a number of variables that are known to influence a websites search results ranking.
Common SEO methods
SEO companies like to divide different techniques into two broad categories: onsite SEO and offsite SEO.
Onsite SEO refers to modifications a webmaster can do to their own website to improve its search results ranking such as search engine friendly URL, effective meta tags, internal links and sitemap.
The most talked about and widely emphasised offsite SEO variable is link popularity. Virtually all SEO companies provide some form of link popularity service. Link popularity refers to the quantity and quality of a websites back links. Quality can be affected by a number of factors: whether the originating website is in the same sector, whether the link has relevant anchor text, the page rank score (PR) or link popularity of the originating website and the links visibility.
Webmaster should always try to get the best quality links and get as many of them as possible. Quantity is key but sometimes quality can be more important. For example a link coming from a highly relevant website with PR5 score could be worth more than ten PR0 links.
What Is Search Engine Optimization? An Introduction
Any business whos serious about establishing a strong web presence have to maximise the traffic and exposure from search engines because they are capable of driving millions of potential customers to a business. Search engine optimisation (SEO) refers to the methods and techniques that can improve a websites ranking (or visibility) on search engine results. There is a whole industry devoted to SEO.
To understand search engine optimisation, one must first understand how search engines compile their results.
How do search engines generate search results
Search engine companies have created computer programs that robotically scan the internet and gather information on all the websites they find. These computer programs or bots are called spiders because their job is to crawl the web. These crawlers download information from each website, which are then stored in the search engines database.
When someone carries out a search, the search engine compares the search keyword(s) against the information in their database. In a fraction of a second, search engines powerful super computers search through billions of websites in their database and pick out a list that match the users criteria. Websites that are deemed most relevant are displayed at the top of the search results.
Each search engine has its own unique proprietary formula to determine relevance and the exact formulas are usually closely guarded trade secrets. It is said Googles formula contains over 200 variables. Although the exact formulas are unknown, there are a number of variables that are known to influence a websites search results ranking.
Common SEO methods
SEO companies like to divide different techniques into two broad categories: onsite SEO and offsite SEO.
Onsite SEO refers to modifications a webmaster can do to their own website to improve its search results ranking such as search engine friendly URL, effective meta tags, internal links and sitemap.
The most talked about and widely emphasised offsite SEO variable is link popularity. Virtually all SEO companies provide some form of link popularity service. Link popularity refers to the quantity and quality of a websites back links. Quality can be affected by a number of factors: whether the originating website is in the same sector, whether the link has relevant anchor text, the page rank score (PR) or link popularity of the originating website and the links visibility.
Webmaster should always try to get the best quality links and get as many of them as possible. Quantity is key but sometimes quality can be more important. For example a link coming from a highly relevant website with PR5 score could be worth more than ten PR0 links.
Three Need To Know Secrets for Ideal and Valuable Backlinks
As you have probably seen many times already receiving outside links to your url is most likely the most crucial factor determining your victory for high rankings in the search engines. The Google Monster has changed the way that sites are ranked from using keyword factors on a specific site to external factors (back links) giving your site greater credibility by other sites wanting to link back to your site.
A high rank in Google must be a number one precedence as they are the most widely used search engine in the world. If you are preparing on getting your targeted traffic from the search engines this is a critical step. I know that you want to rank well at Google but so do tens of millionssites and that makes it that harder to accomplish. If you can get a high PR and Google ranking then the income will follow.
Tip 1: Keeping Track of your traffic and results.
Before|Prior to}}}} you begin your linking campaign you will need to be aware of how you are going to trace your efforts. Working hard on constructing these different types of back links and not being aware of what works and what doesnt is just plain foolish. When you know what works and what doesnt it will be much easier for you to expend your time and energy more efficiently and to achieve better results faster.
You will need to discover a method to a) see what sites that sends traffic to your site, what sites send you actual buyers (traffic that converts into sales or opt-ins). This information is EXTREMELY VALUABLE it must not be ignored.
Google has its Webmaster Tools and if you use Google search and look for “free traffic analyzer” you will find a group of sites that can supply you tools to get the job done. You may opt to consider seeking out more professional tools to do the job so that you will be able to track more specific items you may be interested in ( Where is traffic coming from, what areas of the world are visiting your site etc) that you need in order to not only make sure your pages rank well but that your pages will also convert the people actually visiting it.
One tool that I have had very good experiences using is the Google tool named Google Analytics. It is free and has a many features. You are also able to combine it with your Adwords account if you are using PPC to drive traffic to your site.
Tips 2: Be persistent over a period of time.
It takes time to gain rankings, these things dont happen over night. It can take months before most search engines give your site all the credit for the back links you have attained. You can see some promotion for links in days or weeks but often it is short-term and you should anticipate your rankings to jumping up an down in the search engines for a few months to come.
So be sure to put links on websites where they will be long lived. You want them to stay for months (and preferably years or even forever).
That is not all. Even though you have built up a great number of high quality links you will need to do a minimum effort ( add some links every day if you are able) in creating more and more links to your site over time. This can be undertaken in a lot of ways that wont take up a lot of your time but make sure that you never ever stop the effort entirely. The muscle you have built will erode over time so make sure that you keep adding “votes” for your site.
Tips 3: Be wary of outbound links.
Most websites and pages have links pointing to other sites or other internal pages. The fewer links the page where you will leave your link the better. The effect the page has on your link (and therefore page) will decrease with the number of outbound links.
Creating great content articles and having them displayed on the right sites will do wonders for your ranking. If youre not Shakespeare (and who among us is) you might want to consider finding ghost writers to do the job for you. Sure you can end up paying $30-$50 for a good article (800-1000 words) but if it will end up sending you more customers because of the improved ranking it might be a great investment.
The ideal possible link you can get will be from germane pages with a high PR and great rankings in the search engines and where the link to your site is the only one present. This is not something that you will often experience!!
A way to achieve a situation close to this is when you write great articles and have them posted on high quality websites. Here you will often see some internal links but for the most part the link to your site (in the reference section of the article you wrote) will be the only outbound link.