Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

If you want to get the maximum amount of profit from a website, then you need to get as much traffic as you can.

If you want to get the maximum amount of traffic to your website, then you need to get to the top of Google.

And if you want to get to the top of Google, then you need SEO or ‘Search Engine Optimization’.

Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimizing a website so that Google will be more likely to index it and ensure that it ranks highly for the most relevant key words and phrases.

For example, if you have a website the sells hats, then you might try to get it to rank for the phrase ‘buy hats online’.

To do this, you would go through an optimization process that would involve both ‘on site’ and ‘off site’ strategies.

With any luck, you would eventually be able to get your website to the top of the SERP for that term (‘Search Engine Results Page’) and thereby attract a huge amount of traffic.

More importantly, that traffic would not just be from random visitors but would rather be from specific people who are looking for hats.

Better yet, those people will be looking for hats at the very point that they came to your website (why else would they search for hats?) which thereby means that they’re ready to buy and it should only take a small push to get them to make that decision.

SEO can be a slow going process but it is still possible to very reliably climb the ranks and to get your website to a point where it will start getting more and more organic traffic from searches.


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How SEO Works:

SEO essentially works by attempting to second guess the algorithms used by Google to decide which sites to index and where to rank them.

Google works by using bots, an index and an algorithm.

The bots, also known as ‘robots’ or ‘spiders’, are small pieces of code designed to head out onto the web and look for content.

They read webpages and they add that content to a massive index, that Google can use as a reference.

From there, Google will then use an algorithm to identify which content in that index is relevant to which search – and which is offering value to the end user.

Ultimately, the aim of Google is to help people find interesting content that will be relevant to what they’re looking for.

This involves a lot of factors and the algorithm will look at how many links the content has, how visitors behave on that website and the use of key phrases within the content.

If a word or phrase is repeated often enough, then it is possible to deduce that said word or phrase is likely to be the subject matter – and thus it should come up in searches for matching terms.

SEO basically works by predicting and guessing how the algorithm works (because no one can be completely sure) and then using that information in order to engineer your website to get the maximum number of hits.

Of course it’s not quite that simple though and actually, as we dig deeper, we’ll see that there are other ways of looking at SEO that are more efficient.

Apart from anything else, Google is constantly updating its algorithms (usually with words beginning with ‘P’ like Penguin, Panda and Pidgeon) and that means that second guessing Google can get you into trouble.

Being effective at SEO means having an up-to-date understanding of how it works and it means knowing the core principles that underlie the different strategies.

That’s where this book comes in.

Read on and you’ll learn which old, outdated strategies you need to avoid, how to work with Google to get the very best results and how to future-proof your site for upcoming changes.

This is the modern guide to SEO for modern marketers and site owners. This is your SEO bible and your key to unlocking incredible success on the web!

 

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