Web Development – What Is SEO?
Author: Nati Roberts

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the act of altering or
optimizing your website and it's content in order that search
engines deem it to be relevant and useful to certain topics.
You are able to select the most appropriate topics through the
use of certain keywords in your website.

When surfers conduct searches on search engines they are
presented with a list of results for that search term. These
results are called Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) and
generally speaking, the websites that appear at the top of the
SERPs will receive plenty of traffic to their websites from
searchers.

In order to determine your position on the SERPs, search
engines use their own algorithms. While nobody knows for
absolute certain what these algorithms are it is widely
accepted that your website needs to be easy to navigate,
popular and relevant.

Easy navigation means that your site should have text links to
each of its pages. If you use a flash menu system then you
should include a sitemap in order that search engines and
visitors can quickly and easily find their way around the whole
of your website.

In order to make your website appear popular you need to get
links to your site. While search engines would rather these
links were generated because visitors to your site genuinely
found your content useful, it is commonplace to undertake a
reciprocal link campaign or generate inbound links. Reciprocal
links mean a website links to you in exchange for a link to
their own site.

Relevance is judged by your content. By including the keywords
you place in the metatags of your site throughout the body of
your content and in certain places within your site you are
indicating to the search engines that your website contains
relevant information.

By combining these factors you can effectively convince search
engines that you deserve to be near the top of their SERPs.
However, this can take time and a lot of effort if you don't
fully understand what you are doing.


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