Monday 13 August 2012

A Quick 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.

The goal of any business is profit, if you rank highly in SERPs, the probability of getting more visitors will increase. These visitors are potential customers and will improve your bottom line in the end. So common sense dictates that you try to get to the top of most search engine return pages if you're serious about making any profits.

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 methods are the hard and legitimate way of doing things. Here, you try to provide as much helpful content as possible and also use relevant keywords on your pages. Using back links is also a very popular white hat technique.

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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