Search Engine Optimization
What is Search Engine Optimization?
SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. Basically, that means anything and everything to do with getting your site to rank better on the search engine pages such as Google and Yahoo! My goal is to provide you all the information you need to get the most effective search engine optimization campaign you could possibly have. If you can’t find the information you need on your current page, always check the navigation to the left to see if there are any pages available related to your topic.
Let’s talk about what SEO is NOT. SEO is not:
-Adding random keywords to submissions and your page because they get lots of search results, even though they’re not in the least relevant to your page.
-Adding several links and/or keywords for the crawlers to see, but hiding them from your public. ie: Making them the same color as your background or making them tiny, or both.
-Submitting multiple urls for the same site, example: http://www.YOURDOMAINHERE.com and [http://www.YOURDOMAINHERE.com/index.html].
-Having two pages optimized separately, one for search engines and one for the public, then when you click the link you’re redirected to the page for the public before the search engine page is even displayed.
-Spamming.
-Listing your site with a Free For All Link service.
-Selling PageRank.
-Interlinking multiple sites with the same or similar content.
-Having tons and tons of links. You should never have more than 100 links on any given page.
All of these things are not what SEO is all about. In fact, they are cheating, and not to mention a waste of time. Once Google crawls your site and sees this content, they will most likely ban your website, or at the very least penalize you by removing some of your PageRank. Just make sure you refrain from doing any of the above at all times!
That being said, if you’d like to further your knowledge of SEO you’ve definitely come to the right place. When you leave here you will be endowed with all the powers of search engine optimization and search engine marketing (SEM). All of the material contained within is 100% FREE, but it’s up to you to read it!
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Every week I’ll be adding a new article for you to learn from. Included will be reviews of popular SEO / SEM services and products (some very useful SEO tools), articles on keywords, content, and backlinks. Every now and then I will be throwing in some free demos and some other goodies to help you along the way. Be sure to check back each and every week to continue your journey to the #1 Google spot! I’m even throwing in my lengthy Step-by-Step Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guide as a free gift. You don’t want to miss this. The best, free SEO database on the net to date. Every aspect of SEO is meticulously analyzed and picked apart.
Let’s kick off the web’s premiere SEO training with an introduction to keywords!