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When you search for a certain something on a search engine it opens up a number of pages containing possible answers for your search. These answers are your search results and the pages which contain these are the SERP or Search Engine Result Pages. Now, consider the many times that you have probably used a search engine, and the many results which each of these searches have raked up. If you think about it closely you will probably discover that out of all those million SERPs that you have opened up through your searches each time you have probably visited at the very most the first 3 pages of results, the rest you have ignored like they didn 't even exist.
As the owner of a website being thus ignored by visitors and sidelined by search engines has probably kept you up nights wondering exactly how you might better the position of your site. Well the answer is simple; through SEO.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization refers to a process by means of which a website earns high ranking among the search results, gets a coveted place on the SERP and therey pulls in a large chunk of unique visitors.
Who needs SEO?
Websites can broadly be classified into 4 different types:
Personal sites
Corporate Sites
Sites providing information
E-commerce sites
As is obvious the first two types of websites can hold their own without using SEO. That is because they are target group is in itself a niche and it does not want or need audiences beyond that niche. However, that can not be said for the last two types of websites. If you build a site primarily to circulate information or for commercial use then you would definitely need unique visitors, these may be found only by means of good ranking on SERPs and therefore by means of SEO.
Another important consideration, while on the topic of content, is keywords. Your keywords are words or phrases which summarize or represent the main topic or subject of your site, when a search engine scans the body of your websites text it picks up these repeating words and match them with the words being searched if they match then you get a high ranking.
When selecting your keywords make sure you choose words which are most likely to be used by users searching for a site like yours or subjects covered by your site. After you have selected them sprinkle them abundantly within the text of your site. However be careful that you do not unnecessarily stuff them at inappropriate junctures cause that might attract criticism or even a penalty. Your keyword density per page can be anywhere between 5-15%, depending on of course how skillfully you may choose to repeat them. Make sure that you use your key words / phrases freely in the first two paragraphs of the text. Also, remember to include them in the concluding line of your text. But most importantly use them in your anchor text, certain Search Engines like Google put a lot of importance on the anchor text of your inbound links.
Judge for yourself
Here are the reasons we think optimization is a must, you decide for yourself.
More than 80% of net-users find websites by means of search engines.
90% of these users do not bother to check beyond the first 30 results.
75% of those using search engines intend to buy a product or service.
Professional SEO is twice as effective as all other internet marketing methods and 8 times more effective than banner advertisements.
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