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The lifeblood of websites.

Written by: Peter Slevin

Article Overview: A quick dissertation on why SEO is important.

The lifeblood of websites.

High search engine rankings are the lifeblood of any website if you want to get more customers and more sales. Is it important to be listed on the first result page or is it enough to be listed in the top 30 results?

If you want to get visitors, you must be listed in the top 30 results

A study about this topic was released last year and key among the findings relating to the current search engine user community is that 62% of search engine users click on a search result within the first page of results,

This study confirmed the importance of being listed in the first few pages. If your web site is not listed in the first few pages, changes are that web surfers won't see your site.

So, you ask, how do I get listed in the first few pages? Well, the answer is SEO! SEO stands for search engine optimization -- what it means is to have your website optimized for maximum recognition by the search engines. Here's why you need it. It prepares your web site to be spidered, indexed and ranked by the major search engines so that when internet users search for your keywords, your website will appear on their results page. When properly executed, search engine optimization yields targeted traffic to the site and increases revenues.

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