What Is Search Engine Optimization

Armaan143 · 12-29-2007

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.

Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results and to deter spam pages from clogging those results. A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine.

New sites need not be "submitted" to search engines to be listed. 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 can take a few days to even 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.

If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues.

Search engine marketing and promotion companies, will look at the plan for your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep your site traffic flow and your search engine ranking high. Normally your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan right away so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time.

Source : WMR Zone

Outdust_Regna · 06-15-2008

Gee thanks for the information. I have been wondering what SEO really is and how it works. You got brief answers for me here. Cheers ^^

QueenZ · 06-15-2008

So basically it means that if someone is searching in google for anything it should return YOUR site at the top of the list..

Armaan143 · 06-16-2008

Originally Posted by QueenZ

So basically it means that if someone is searching in google for anything it should return YOUR site at the top of the list..

Finally...
You got it

QueenZ · 06-16-2008

Yea.. I thought it was all about url rewriting...

danica · 10-11-2008

SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

trelog · 10-12-2008

SEO is complicated and there is a lot to learn to come out ahead in the game--I am learning constantly and know it is an on-going process.

rajshree · 10-13-2008

such a nice post...

Jenie0109 · 01-13-2009

Great information.. Thanks for sharing.

shanul85 · 01-14-2009

Quote:

So basically it means that if someone is searching in google for anything it should return YOUR site at the top of the list..

SEO is the one of the most powerful internet marketing method. It will bring free traffic to your site. It is a fountain of wealth.

06-15-2008	#3
QueenZ Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 45	So basically it means that if someone is searching in google for anything it should return YOUR site at the top of the list.. http://www.QueenZSoftware.com/ QueenZ's Blog

06-16-2008	#4
Armaan143 Promotion Team Leader Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sujangarh (Rajasthan,India) Posts: 1,553	Originally Posted by QueenZ So basically it means that if someone is searching in google for anything it should return YOUR site at the top of the list.. Finally... You got it Indian Viral\|PCerZ New Tech Updates

06-16-2008	#5
QueenZ Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 45	Yea.. I thought it was all about url rewriting... http://www.QueenZSoftware.com/ QueenZ's Blog

10-12-2008	#7
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12-29-2007	#1
Armaan143 Promotion Team Leader Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sujangarh (Rajasthan,India) Posts: 1,553	What Is Search Engine Optimization 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. Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results and to deter spam pages from clogging those results. A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine. New sites need not be "submitted" to search engines to be listed. 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 can take a few days to even 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. If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues. Search engine marketing and promotion companies, will look at the plan for your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep your site traffic flow and your search engine ranking high. Normally your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan right away so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time. Source : WMR Zone Indian Viral\|PCerZ New Tech Updates

06-15-2008	#2
Outdust_Regna Newbie Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3	Gee thanks for the information. I have been wondering what SEO really is and how it works. You got brief answers for me here. Cheers ^^

10-11-2008	#6
danica Newbie Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 10	SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

01-13-2009	#9
Jenie0109 Regular Geek Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 428	Great information.. Thanks for sharing. Hydraulic Valve \|\| Seo Packages \|\| Debt Settlement

01-14-2009	#10
shanul85 Newbie Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 5	Quote: So basically it means that if someone is searching in google for anything it should return YOUR site at the top of the list.. SEO is the one of the most powerful internet marketing method. It will bring free traffic to your site. It is a fountain of wealth.