Search Engine Optimization
What is SEO?
SEO
stands for search engine optimization. Which is the art of ranking high on a
search engine in the unpaid section, also known as the organic listings.
SEO
is the magic you have to work on your article in order to make Google very likely
to include your post as one of the top results whenever someone searches for
that keyword.
What goes into SEO?
- Quality
of traffic. You can attract all the visitors in the world,
but if they're coming to your site because Google tells them you're a
resource for Apple computers when really you're a farmer selling apples,
that is not quality traffic. Instead you want to attract visitors who are
genuinely interested in products that you offer.
- Quantity
of traffic. Once
you have the right people clicking through from those search engine
results pages (SERPs), more traffic is better.
- Organic
results.
Ads make up a significant portion of many SERPs. Organic traffic is any
traffic that you don't have to pay for.
How SEO works
You might think of a search
engine as a website you visit to type (or speak) a question into a box and
Google, Yahoo!, Bing, or whatever search engine you're using magically replies
with a long list of links to webpages that could potentially answer your
question.
That's true. But have you
ever stopped to consider what's behind those magical lists of links?
Here's how it works: Google
(or any search engine you're using) has a crawler that goes out and gathers
information about all the content they can find on the Internet. The crawlers
bring all those 1s and 0s back to the search engine to build an index. That
index is then fed through an algorithm that tries to match all that data with
your query.
White hat vs. black hat SEO
As you know, I’m playing the long-term
entrepreneurial game instead of just trying to get a quick buck out
of it.
It’s the
same with search engine optimization. Some people are in it to make a few grand
really quickly while others are in it for the long haul.
If you want to work SEO like a get-rich-quick scheme,
you’ll probably end up doing black hat SEO.
This
type of SEO focuses on optimizing your content only for the search engine, not considering
humans at all. Since there are lots of ways to bend and break the rules to get
your sites to rank high, these are a prime way for black hat SEOs to make a few
thousand dollars fast.
Ultimately,
this approach results in spammy, crappy pages that often get banned very fast.
It will often lead to severe punishment for the marketer, ruining their chance
of building something sustainable in the future.
You
might make a few grand this way, but you’ll continuously have to be on the
lookout for search engine updates and come up with new ways to dodge the rules.
White
hat SEO, on the other hand, is the way to build a sustainable online business.
If you do SEO this way, you’ll focus on your human audience.
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