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What is SEO ? - For Beginners

Technology is rising everywhere and a lot of people are now using internet as a medium to search for a topic. Internet nowadays has a great impact to the lives of every people in the world. Most of it use these, for research, assignments, job haunting, and many more. How about this so called SEO? Have you heard of this term guys? How is this related to the internet and to you as a student?

Let's talk about first the SEO guys. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of improving the visibiligy of a website or a webpage in search engines which is natural or un-paid unlike other when they are in SEM (Search Engine Marketing) which targets paid listings so that their site will appear in the top of the search result. Examples of these search engines are Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and many more. Those are a few search engines that will help you to check your rankings and visibility of your website. The more visible your website in the search engine the great visitor you will receive from the search engine. Also having a SEO on your site is putting your business or website visible to the people as well as one of the strategy to promote your website.

As an Search Engine Optimizer you should consider how the search engines work and what do people search for. Optimizing your website may involve editing its content and HTML codes. To get more about the SEO lets talk about how search engines work.

How Search Engines Work

The very basic to learn SEO is to understand first how the search engines work. On WEBCONFS (http://www.webconfs.com/seo-tutorial/introduction-to-seo.php) said that search engines are not humans, it is right guys. They are not like us who picks what is the most relevant website, content as well as who are the most beautiful design has. Search Engines are text-driven, instead of analyzing the beauty of a cool design or the sounds and movements in the website, search engines crawl the Web, looking at particular site which is mainly text to get idea what a site is all about.

To be continued