Monday, October 1, 2012

Search Engine Optimization In Brief


by Ruby Prince


Search engine optimization is a concept used by owners of websites to make their website more visible in search engines. It is used as a tool to generate traffic for a website hence generates income for the operator of the website. It increases the chances of a website being visited every time an internet user searches for content relevant to what the site offers.

Optimization is often used as a marketing tool by website operators. It may not however work well as a marketing strategy for all websites. This is because website owners and developers have different objectives that they seek to achieve from their websites. Depending on these objectives, the owner can decide whether it can be used as an effective marketing tool or not.

Optimizing does not only serve to satisfy the interests of the site owner. It also holds good tidings for the internet user. The page with the best content on the topic being searched for is bound to have more visitors than any other page. Optimizing makes these pages easy to find, as they will appear first on search results. This means that the internet user does not have to go through so many web pages when looking for information on a particular topic.

There are two ways through which optimization can be carried out. The first involves the use of techniques, which adhere to the guidelines of optimizing. This is the white ht way of doing things. The other way of doing it is the black hat way, which does not adhere to the set guidelines.

Sometimes black hat optimizing techniques deceive the internet users. For example, hidden text usage on search engines misleads users. Website owners for example, may use a text color similar to the background to hide the text. The user cannot see the text and therefore, they may end up on websites that they had no intention of visiting.

There a number of ways through which these engines can be optimized. Indexing of pages, prevention of crawling and perhaps the most common of them all, increasing prominence of the website. There are several ways of optimizing by increasing prominence. Cross- linking is one of these techniques. Pages of the same website are cross- linked to increase the visibility of the website.

Websites also use written web content that uses keywords that are frequently searched for by internet users. This is also a very effective way of carrying out search engine optimization. Optimization is a very important activity for all website operators.




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