Search Engine Optimization

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What is Search Engine Optimization

Posted by seodesig on 29th February 2008

Search Engine Optimization is the process of website’s content and source code is written in such manner so that search engines can find, index, and rank pages highly in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). SEO involves the pages’ structured code, optimized metas, title, content, outbound links, properly defined tags (alt and H tags are most important), and relevant text links. While working on SEO, it is critical to remember that the site is for users and not for search engines. Optimization should NOT make the site unusual or undesirable to users.

 SEO help in your business
Over 85% of our websites are initially found via search engines – companies using search engine optimization techniques on their websites are attracting more potential costumers to their websites - Forester Research Institute.

Good SEO returns your initial investment many times over. A well optimized site has high search-enging rankings for its target key search phrases (known as keywords). The appropriate keywords bring visitors in your target market to your site, and hence more business. Obviously, the more visible a product is, the better its sales. Make your website visible in top search engings by contacting us for an SEO quote today.

Benefits of Link Popularity
To measure a page’s popularity, Google ranks it on a scale from 1 to 10 and calls that number a “page rank” (PR). Each page is ranked individually and is tied to the rank of its parent page. Therefore, if the PR of a homepage is high, we expect to see a high PR spread across the entire site. Higher PRs reflect high-quality link popularity, which is an important but completely separate part of SEO. When properly done, link popularity helps in boosting your site’s ranks in SERPs. How?

  1. Your site uses target keywords in the anchor text
  2. There are more incoming links to your site
  3. You have more link placements on pages with related keywords
  4. Your Pages are crawled (searched and indexed) more frequently
  5. Your site is endorsed by other related sites.

Link popularity plays a major role in any successful SEO strategy.

Ethical SEO Techniques
Performing SEO ethically requires adhering to the guidelines established by major search engines to avoid using spamming to get high rankings.. Unethical SEO practices include cloaking, doorway pages, hidden text, hidden links, too many keywords, distorting text by filling it with keywords, and having mirror sites, among others.

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