SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Search
engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the
volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page
(such as a blog) from search engines via "natural" or
un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results as
opposed to other forms of search engine marketing (SEM)
which may deal with paid inclusion. The theory is that the
earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more
visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may
target different kinds of search, including image search,
local search, video search and industry-specific vertical
search engines. This gives a web site web presence.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search
engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a
website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and
associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific
keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities
of search engines.
Webmasters and content providers began optimizing sites for
search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines
were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all a webmaster
needed to do was submit the address of a page, or URL, to
the various engines which would send a "spider" to "crawl"
that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return
information found on the page to be indexed.
The process involves a search engine spider downloading a
page and storing it on the search engine's own server, where
a second program, known as an indexer, extracts various
information about the page, such as the words it contains
and where these are located, as well as any weight for
specific words, and all links the page contains, which are
then placed into a scheduler for crawling at a later date.
SEO is not necessarily an appropriate strategy for every
website, and other Internet marketing strategies can be much
more effective, depending on the site operator's goals. A
successful Internet marketing campaign may drive organic
traffic, achieved through optimization techniques and not
paid advertising, to web pages, but it also may involve the
use of paid advertising on search engines and other pages,
building high quality web pages to engage and persuade,
addressing technical issues that may keep search engines
from crawling and indexing those sites, setting up analytics
programs to enable site owners to measure their successes,
and improving a site's conversion rate.
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