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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Overview

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Article Overview: Successful Internet Marketers learn and apply a variety of techniques to build and advance their online businesses, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO). While no singular method can be relied upon to produce the overall desired results, effective SEO practices can be considered a foundational requirement.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Overview

Successful Internet Marketers learn and apply a variety of techniques to build and advance their online businesses, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO). While no singular method can be relied upon to produce the overall desired results, effective SEO practices can be considered a foundational requirement.

Search engines are at the very heart of the Internet experience and your aim as an Internet Marketer is to get your share of the search engine traffic. To do this, you need to optimize your website to get your web pages showing up on the first page of the search engine results for your chosen keyword or keyword phrase.

Search engine traffic is valuable because it is targeted traffic. Most visitors who arrive at your site via a search engine already know what they want and have clicked on your link because the search engine has indicated that you have what they are looking for. Once they land on your site, it then becomes the responsibility of your site content to close the deal.

To place well in the search engines, some of the things you must do include optimizing your site using the TITLE tag, placing keywords strategically within the content of your pages, using ALT tags in your images and setting up your META description tag. Optimization involves more than these basics, but they are a start.

Here are a few tips:

Your TITLE tag should include the primary keyword phrase for your website.

The Heading tags (e.g. H1, H2) allow you to highlight important text on your website, ensuring that search engine spiders pay attention to the text within these head tags.

The SEO value of the keywords in your site content is affected by their proximity and prominence on the page and the order of the content itself. For example, keywords that appear in the first portion of your content are considered by the search engines to be of greater relevance than keywords near the end of the content.

Regarding ALT tags, you should add your keywords into the ALT attributes of a few of the images on the page being optimized.

Search Engine Optimization is not the total answer to Internet Marketing success, but it is one of the most important and most valuable practices that every entrepreneur should be sure to devote regular time and attention to. Online success begins with effective SEO.

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