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What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is an online marketing strategy that helps your website get good ranks on search engines. It is an online marketing strategy that includes writing, coding, and designing your website. SEO is not just doing some research o search engines and preparing good algorithms for your website, it is a whole process that also involves writing god content and designing a content that is well optimized. All this combined will enable a search engine to rank your website high in the search terms related to your products or services. The aim of SEO is to rank you higher based on the keywords about your business. It is very important to optimize your website if you want to get a god ROI. It is also important to gain visibility on SERPs.

SEO is not a single stage process; it is done in two stages, On-page SEO and Off-page SEO. On-page SEO involves getting the website optimized it self, it involves the design the content and the tags (code). Off-page SEO is not carried on the website but relates to the website, it includes link building techniques, news, articles, press releases, directory submissions, forums and blogs. The off-page SEO is all about 3rd party exposure of your website.

On Page Factors

Keyword mining

Keyword density checks

Credible copywriting

Meta tags scripting

Clean and valid mark-up (HTML)

Link management

Off Page Factors

Free / paid directory submission

Article and news submission

Press release distribution

Reciprocal link marketing

Inbound link building

Digital signatures

SEO is all about getting a good traffic to your suite via search engines.

You will find people who visit the search engines are in 2 minds, they either are there for search or "Ready to act/buy/sign up". There are many different off-page SEO ways; one of them is PPC campaigns. Different campaigns can be set up for different minds. They have different objectives.

For example if there is a campaign for Awareness, it must be optimized for Reach. It must concentrate on the higher number of clicks.

A sales campaign on the other hand must be optimized for sales.

SEO is a way to attract people, it will meet your traffic objectives and awareness. Always keep I n mind while implementing SEO that the key factor is always the keywords. It is important to carry out both on-page and off-page SEO, this way you will get good results.

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