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WHAT IS SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION OR SEO?

There are several definitions for SEO, but it can be understood as a set of techniques including the optimization of a website's content, structure, and interaction with other websites, with the purpose of improving the site's rankings in search engine results, for certain keywords or phrases.

It is basically a form of online marketing, using strategies and tactics focusing in what is known about how search engines query and index websites.

Of course, search engines operators are continuously changing their algorithms (the formula that determines how a website will rank in the search results), and refining their methods, which make SEO marketers study these methods and adapt to the changes.

To be effective, SEO must be implemented in the website itself, and off the website as well. Both optimization methods are equally important and necessary. In the website design stage, it pays great dividends later to construct the structure and content of the website search engine friendly; this way, the website will rise to top search results rankings faster, after being indexed properly by the search engines.

SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY WEBSITES

Making the website search engine friendly means to build or transform the structure and content of the site to appeal to the indexing methods of the search engines.

found We pay particular attention to, first of all, make the site's markup compliant with the latest web standards. This will ensure the website operates well in different browsers, and will be rendered correctly in your visitors computers.

The structure of the web pages is particularly important because the use of the keywords will have to be strategically distributed among the basic components of the page: meta tags, page title, header tags (h1, h2, etc), and the copy of your pages.

The "keywords", the words or phrases relevant to your business, that you want to be found with, are the cornerstone of the SEO efforts. Once identified, the keywords must be included maintaining a right balance: not to much to be considered spam, but enough to have the density necessary to make the page copy relevant to the search engines.

We also pay attention to details like the links to other pages in your website, to complete all alt tags associated to images, use of bold faced fonts for relevant keywords, and maintaining the amount of code to a minimum to keep the page's weight small and loading fast in your visitor's computers.


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SEO OUTSIDE THE WEBSITE

Implementing search engine optimization outside the website means the steps taken once the website is completed.

This apply also to existing websites that need improving in their rankings. The site must be submitted to search engines, inbound links should be obtained by different methods: exchanging links with other sites, submitting articles or relevant content to the media, and such.

Until recently, link exchange done right was a sure way of optimization for improving rankings; currently, this is been reevaluated by Google and other search engines, and it is not as important as it was before.

Web surfers will find your website easierFinally, relevant content is by far the best way to improve rankings in search results: keeping the content of the website fresh by frequent updates is a sure way to rise to the top of search results, and gives visitors a reason to visit your site often, with greater chances to convert them into sales.