Wednesday, August 15, 2012

A Basic Look At How Search Engine Optimization Works

By Jeff Wagner


Having your webpage high in popular search engines can really improve the number of visitors you get. Through SEO, it is possible to improve a webpage rank in SERPs. In lay terms, search engine optimization can be defines as a technique which a webmaster uses to improve a webpage rank.

If you're running a business, it would benefit you to have your webpage appear on the first pages because there, it's easier for customers to notice it. Now with lots of other business competing for the highest ranks, it takes time and effort to have a website on top of the first page. Below, a look on how this is done is outlined.

The two most common methods that are used in SEO include white and black hat techniques. One of these techniques is legitimate while the other is illegal and will get you in trouble if you're caught. Though both of these techniques will work, using the legit way in the long run is beneficial.

White hat method basically uses back links, keyword and content to improve the relevance of a website. A systems' ability to predict the best website is what determines if it's effective. In a perfect world, having the best content will raise your ranks, but this is not so, you need to convince the system.

If you have a website that sells a service for instance, to convince the system that you're the best in the game, keywords are of significant importance. Using relevant keywords in titles and headers will go a long way in improving your ranks. Also, back links are a very common SEO technique. How this works, is that relevance is dimmed by the number of back links that are leading to your website. The more the back links, the better your chances of improving in ranks.

Black hat methods are similar to the above approaches except it tries to cheat the system by either keyword stuffing or providing back links that are spurious. The truth is that people don't like to be fooled, though this search engine optimization technique may appear to work in the beginning, in the end your webpage will either get flagged or shut down. Also, visitors will be leaving the website once they notice that the content is not useful.




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