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Search Engine Optimization Overview

Search Engine Optimization Overview

Designing a website today is no longer about aesthetics. Not only must it look good, your website must be visible to the search engines especially if you are involved in the cut-throat business of e-Commerce.

So why bother with the search engines? Because they represent the single most important source of new web traffic for any website to date. And over the next decade, search engine optimization (SEO) will be more widely used to generate public awareness and traffic as search engines play a bigger role in information and multimedia gathering.


SEO: Matching Users with Websites

What is Search Engine Optimization? In a nutshell, SEO helps match Internet users with websites offering what it is they are interested in finding. It does so by using a number of methods and techniques that enable the search engines to read and index the webpages of your site, i.e. making the website "search engine friendly".

SEO works by trying to understand how search engines work and what human visitors might search for. This involves making changes to the content, page layout and the architecture of the website, called on-site optimization. Off-site optimization looks at generating web traffic through links.

These two concepts are performed in four ways:

• By addressing the limitations of your website's architecture with respect to a search engine's ability to properly read and index the webpages.

• Identifying keywords and phrases that are relevant to your website as well as the searcher. These keywords and phrases are then written, in a reasonable way, into the content of the site.

• Attracting links from authoritative sites, and targeting those incoming links to the interests of the searcher.

• Analyzing visitor activity on your website, and then looking for way to improve the searcher's website experience.

When these four aspects are done right, you not only help the search engines do a better job of serving their users with the information they seek, the search engines will display your website to the visitors you are targeting.


The Need for SEO

Studies indicate that a large number of potential buyers begin with search engines. SEO is about bringing more visibility to your online business. It's no surprise that more and more business websites are being optimized in order to improve their search engine rankings.

Search engine optimization can be a very complex process requiring a long-term approach. It can take months before results start to show. However, with some patience and planning, the cost-effectiveness of SEO doubles and sometimes triples. As such, it is an important web marketing strategy for success.





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John Alexander
John has taught keyword research and SEO skills to small groups of business owners and Webmasters from over 80 different countries world wide since 2002. John is also the Director of Search Engine Academy ; Co-director of Training at Search Engine Workshops offering live, SEO Workshops with his partner SEO educator Robin Nobles, author of the very first comprehensive online search engine marketing courses at SEO Training Online and the SEO Workshop Resource Center.
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Stephanie Robey
Stephanie Robey is President and CoFounder of Pivot Positive, LLC - an Internet marketing business focused on helping people start work at home ventures. Previously, she was employed at The Search Agency with over 20 years experience in graphic design and 10 years experience in online marketing. She was responsible for launching the Conversion Path Optimization (CPO) unit where she and her team have conducted hundreds of optimization tests for online companies across multiple verticals.

She is a successful entrepreneur having started and sold 2 companies and remains on the board of directors of the third, PhotoSpin.com   Stephanie began her career in the direct marketing realm creating and producing direct mail for many of the major cable television companies and directly attributes her understanding of Internet marketing to those early offline experiences.  Stephanie is a graduate of San Diego State University with a BFA in Graphic Arts and also holds an Executive MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University.

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