Blog Tips For The Entrepreneur

I recently read Aaron Wall’s SEO Book. If you need help marketing your website I highly recommend reading it.

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization (SEO) as a subset of search engine marketing seeks to improve the number and quality of visitors to a web site from “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. The quality of visitor traffic can be measured by how often a visitor using a specific keyword leads to a desired conversion action, such as making a purchase or requesting further information. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing first to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and secondly to human visitors. The term SEO can also refer to “search engine optimizers”, an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients.

Search engine optimization is available as a stand-alone service or as a part of a larger marketing campaign. Because SEO often requires making changes to the source code of a site, it is often most effective when incorporated into the initial development and design of a site, leading to the use of the term “Search Engine Friendly” to describe designs, menus, Content management systems and shopping carts that can be optimized easily and effectively.

A range of strategies and techniques are employed in SEO, including changes to a site’s code (referred to as “on page factors”) and getting links from other sites (referred to as “off page factors”). These techniques include two broad categories: techniques that search engines recommend as part of good design, and those techniques that search engines do not approve of and attempt to minimize the effect of, referred to as spamdexing. Some industry commentators classify these methods, and the practitioners who utilize them, as either “white hat SEO”, or “black hat SEO”. Other SEOs reject the black and white hat dichotomy as an over-simplification.

Basically, SEO is a good thing and something that each webmaster, online business owner and anyone else who is considering of building a website or creating a blog should be concerned with. There are services that charge for SEO but then again there are free resources that are very effective. I personally would say start with the awesome SEO book and then research, research, research and implement it on your site. Search engine traffic is a good thing! Think free traffic that converts to sell after sell creating more customers.
source — wikipedia

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