Thursday, July 24, 2014

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Today we gonna take a look at Search Engine Optimization.

What is SEO?
SEO is the process of improving the organic ranking of a website with leading search engines. Professional SEO firms help to improve search engine rankings for their clients by modifying their websites to better reflect what search engines are looking for.
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Search engine optimization ( SEO ) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine 's "natural" or un-paid ("organic ") search results.  All major search engines such as Google , Yahoo and Bing have such results, where web pages and other content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content, HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO
tactic.

SEO techniques can be of different types

 White hat SEO

In search engine optimization ( SEO ) terminology, white hat SEO refers to the usage of optimization strategies, techniques and tactics that focus on a human audience opposed to search engines and completely follows search engine rules and policies.

For example, a website that is optimized for search engines, yet focuses on relevancy and organic ranking is considered to be optimized using White Hat SEO practices. Some examples of White Hat SEO techniques include using keywords and keyword analysis, backlinking , link building to improve link popularity, and writing content for human readers. White Hat SEO is more frequently used by those who intend to make a long-term investment on their website. Also called Ethical SEO .

Black Hat SEO

In search engine optimization ( SEO ) terminology, black hat SEO refers to the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines guidelines.
Some examples of black hat SEO techniques include keyword stuffing, invisible text, doorway pages, adding unrelated keywords to the page content or page swapping (changing the webpage entirely after it has been ranked by search engines).
Black Hat SEO Usage
Black hat SEO is more frequently used by those who are looking for a quick financial return on their Web site, rather than a long-term investment on their Web site. Black hat SEO can possibly result in your Web site being banned from a search engine , however since the focus is usually on quick high return business models, most experts who use Black Hat SEO tactics consider being banned from search engines a somewhat irrelevant risk. Black hat SEO may also be referred to as unethical SEO or spamdexing , as spamdexing is a frequently used black hat SEO practice.

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