Search Engine Optimization SEO Information
If you are not, particularly, bothered about being found and indexed by Search Engines, then there is no, real need, for Search Engine optimization (SEO).
Likewise, if good Search Engine placements are integral to your sites success, then your Website needs to be carefully optimised for Search Engines. If not, then getting your site indexed for key search phrases, will be left to luck rather than good judgment. More information, below.
Do You Need To Be Indexed?
For those of you, who believe, their site does not need to be optimised or even picked up by Search Engines, then, most likely, the majority of your business is generated via referrals. This is all very well and assumes a single source of new business leads is able to sustain business growth. However, circumstances do change, as many businesses would agree.
Therefore, it is, usually, prudent, to have some eggs in other baskets when it comes to marketing the business. Competitors, who have identified the Internet as a major marketing channel, most likely, have already taken steps, to ensure good exposure. They also know, once much of the hard work has be done, there is every chance, they will reap the benefits further down the line.
By not starting the process of taking even the simplest of steps to optimise your Website, every day lost, will be a day gained by your competitors. The majority of Search Engines, take a long term view with Websites they index. They want to se sure, you will be around tomorrow.
Therefore, if good Search Engine placement is about being in it for the long term, the sooner you get started, the better. Playing catch up with competitors, with good search results, is very difficult and can be measured in years and not months.
Looking At It From A Search Engines Perspective
Most new Website owners, wrongly assume, their Website will be found, by just about anyone, looking for their services or products. Definitely, not so!
With, literally, thousands of new Websites being added to the Internet every day, Search Engines have the, unenviable, task, of trying to filter the good from the bad. They do this, by crawling the Internet using Web Robots. These robots are capable of retrieving vast quantities of information, that is then analysed by special algorithms, able to score and rate millions of Websites. Some of the techniques used for ranking Websites are described in the following pages.
Needless to say, Robots and their algorithms, take an objective view of the sites they look at. Like any judge in a competition, Search Engines will judge you on certain criteria. Not surprisingly, Websites ignoring this criteria or not giving enough consideration, are given low scores and placed well down the list of search results.
If you are not on the first two or three pages (some would say first page), then there is little chance of being visited by Web Surfers.
This is one of the, key reasons, why we do not market and sell Websites with less than a handful of pages. These type of sites, seldom offer sufficient information to satisfy their visitors, a fact not lost on the Search Engines. Search Engines are after Websites with good informational content and have made, to some extent, the effort to win some valuable scoring points.
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