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Search Engine Optimization: Marketing for the Search Engines

 

 

In recent years SEO or Search Engine Optimization has become one of the most important features of an effective online marketing plan. Essentially SEO tries to make it easy for search engines or spiders -- software robots that crawl the content on the web -- to find your site. They do this by indexing or categorizing the content on your pages. The amount of content with the same relative subject matter determines your ranking in a search on that subject. Links in and out of your site count too.

At a rate of adding a couple of million pages a day, the internet grows too fast even for the spiders to find everything. It also takes them a while to find your site, which is why it is important to register your site with as many search engines as possible. Major search engines now charge for this service, so it may be a good idea to use a service to register your site, however, make sure that you optimize the content and structure of your site first!

 

(n) site Analysis ™ — find out how search engines view your site. SEO is one of the features you can request in a (n) site Analysis. Other aspects that you may request is an analysis on you site's usability and effectiveness. Why find out too late that your site could have been a better tool for your business?

Majon International -- a 3rd party service that enables you to register your site with all the major and minor search engines with a single submission form.


description tag -- a META tag used by Web page authors to provide a description for search engine listings.

doorway domain -- a domain used specifically to rank well in search engines for particular keywords, serving as an entry point through which visitors pass to the main domain.

doorway page -- a page made specifically to rank well in search engines for particular keywords, serving as an entry point through which visitors pass to the main content.

invisible Web -- the portion of the Web not accessible through Web search engines.

keyword -- a word used in a performing a search.

keyword density -- keywords as a percentage of text words found by a search engine or spider in a page.

keyword research -- the search for keywords related to your Web site, and the analysis of which ones yield the highest return.

keywords tag -- META tag used to help define the primary keywords of a Web page.

link popularity -- a measure of the quantity and quality of sites that link to your site.

link text -- the text contained in (and sometimes near) a hyperlink.

log file -- file that records the activity for a web site.

manual submission -- adding a URL to the search engines individually by hand.

meta tag generator -- tool that will output META tags based on input page information.

meta tags -- tags to describe various aspects about a Web page.

pay per click search engine -- search engine where results are ranked according to the bid amount, and advertisers are charged when a user clicks on their listing.

search engine optimization -- the process of choosing appropriate seach phrases related to a site, and ensuring that the site places well in a search for those phrases.

search engine submission -- supplying a URL to a search engine in an attempt to make asearch engine add the site to its index.

search spy -- a perpetually refreshing page that provides a real-time view of actual Web searches.

spider -- software used by a search engine to find and retrieve web pages to include in its index.

title tag -- HTML tag used to define the text in the top line of a Web browser, used by many search engines as the title of search listings.

top 10 -- the top ten search engine results for a particular search term.

URL -- location of a resource, such as a web page or graphic on the Internet.

volunteer directory -- a Web directory staffed by unpaid volunteer editors.

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