Search Engine Optimization Definition

Posted In SEO - By Piyush Dungrani On Sunday, November 29th, 2009 With 3 Comments
What is SEO Best SEO Article Search Engine Optimization Definition

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the practice of making your website attractive to search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

Search engines regularly read and archive websites so that people can find them easily. For example, a person may be searching for ways to cook salmon. If your website is about salmon and optimized properly, your site should appear within the first page or two of every search engine.

What isn’t SEO?

SEO is not about tricking search engines such as Alta Vista, Ask or Live.com.

What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization is about creating clean and detailed web pages that can be easily read by automated robots.

By following a basic set of rules and ensuring that you have the correct information in your source code along with keywords and other detailed information throughout a page, a search engine like Google will be able to easily read and catalog (or index) your page.

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  1. rankings are base on the algorithm set by each search engine. For me it is a combination of the what you said correct information in your source code and the link coming from external sites that is related to your website.

  2. ericafiller02 says:

    The process of choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a site, and ensuring that the site places well when

  3. seo for website says:

    The process of choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a site, and ensuring that the site places well when.

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