Showing posts with label search engine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search engine. Show all posts

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Offsite SEO Strategies-Summary

In an earlier post, "Onsite SEO vs. Offsite SEO (Search Engine Optimization)," there are two main ways to make your site more likely to be found on the free side (organic search results) on a search engine: Onsite SEO and Offsite SEO.

To quickly remind you...
  • Onsite SEO is when you adjust YOUR website to make it easier for people to find you.
  • Offisite SEO is when you leave your site to attract people to your site.

This post will focus on Offsite SEO.

Friday, December 17, 2010

How does a Search Engine, like Google, work?

How do search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and others work?

What is a Search Engine?

A search engine is sort of dynamic directory on the Internet.  It is a really big index, where you list a category, and the search engine lists its most related listings (websites known to that specific search engine).

How does a search engine work?

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

What is SEO?

What, exactly, is this “SEO” that we read and hear?

The letters in SEO stand for Search Engine Optimization.

That’s the type of explanation that’s great IF you ALREADY KNOW what it means.

Another words, at best, it’s barely helpful. Let's try a better explanation.