niedziela, 26 lutego 2012

Basics Of SEO

By Anne Rowan


Any query of a popular word in a search engine would yield a huge number of results. In this scenario, the techniques which enable a business to be displayed in the first few results for a query using a particular word is called Search Engine Optimization or SEO. Figuring at the top of a web search can attract more traffic for your website, resulting in more business, and that is why SEO has attained such prominence in the past few years.

There are two types of SEO - white hat and black hat. Black hat means use of techniques, which are often frowned upon, for making a site figure in top results. However, white hat SEO only uses those techniques which are largely accepted and do not violate the rules of the search engines.

With the purpose to comprehend the significance of a web page for a particular keyword, search engines conventionally used the page's Meta data, which is inserted into the code of the page by website managers or developers. However, major search engines now make use of complex algorithms to show the results that are filtered on the basis of over 200 distinct factors.

SEO consultants constantly try to guess the significance of different factors that play a part in the search algorithms and stay up to date with the advancements that search engines make. On the basis of these findings, they improve the SEO techniques used by their customers so that their websites remain competitive. When the search results were only reliant on Meta data and the content of the web page, this task involved optimizing the Meta tags of the web pages and ensuring that the keyword density of each page was just right.

Although these factors are crucial even today, the popularity of the web page is now more important for the search engines. The number of links referring to a web page suggests the popularity of that web page. Every single link is thus taken as a vote for the page and the system becomes democratic in essence. Due to this significant change, SEO now also entails several offsite strategies like giving away free content to get embedded links, and developing an extended presence through blogs and other forms of social media.

The important aspect of SEO to be always kept in mind is that it is not a one time activity. This field keeps changing and your techniques should be up to date with the changes. That is why it is so critical to have a good SEO consultant help you out.




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