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UNDERSTANDING SEO
If you own a website or blog and you would like to promote your products and services, you might want to consider having a little knowledge about SEO. SEO which means search engine optimization played a part in the most successful online businesses worldwide. Giving out the meaning is not enough. In this article we will delve deeper into it to ensure full understanding and success in our future online endeavors.
If you want your website to be visible to the people who frequently use the internet, we need it to be search-engine optimized, which means that search engines such as Google will prioritize it and give it a higher rank than other related sites. This rank is what we call us page rank. If a certain website or blog has a higher page rank, the better. It means that a search engine such as Google, will most likely put it on a spot which will allow it to gain more exposure to the internet surfers. Not only that, page rank also determines the quality and importance of a specific website. Now the question is how does Google determines the rank of each website available on the web, which accounts to millions. To do that, Google created an algorithm to determine these rankings. That’s how smart they are, knowing that manually doing it would be too time consuming and of course not practical as it might lead to mistakes or errors. This algorithm specially designed for the purpose of determining ranks, is capable of analyzing the total number of links pointing to a website and the amount of relevant and quality articles it contains. From a scale of 1 to 10, 1 is the lowest and 10 on the other hand, is the highest. Every website owner strives to be ranked the highest will give them an opportunity to be listed at the top of an internet search page. Therefore, more visitors and more revenue for them.
One does not need to be too technical in order to understand how SEO works. To make SEO work for you and your business, you need to understand how keywords can be used for the benefit of your site. For SEO content writers, it is of paramount importance that you know how to create contents that are rich in keywords. If you are still a beginner and you want to make it big, putting some of your time to study and apply SEO techniques will prove to be very significant and beneficial to you in the long run. With the availability of the internet, there is a high competition of who will make it to the top of the internet search results. You might ask why these internet marketers would like to be on the top list of search engines, particularly Google. A study or research reported that internet users will most likely browse the contents of the first page only. Based on the findings, users will only be interested in the first 5-10 results. For example, a user will type in the word “blog” in the search bar of Google, he will most likely browse through the first 5-10 results and disregard the others, specially if he finds it so comprehensive that he is able to locate what he is specifically searching for. For the website owner, this would mean more traffic, exposure and probably more revenue, as mentioned earlier. Even if the website doesn’t sell any product or services, it would still most likely to be able to generate revenue through advertising if the website’s ranking is good. Advertisers would be very glad to post and sponsor their advertisement on the said website, thus generating revenue for the website owner.
