SEO For Newbies: Your Key to Generating Floods Of Traffic
Search Engine Optimization or SEO, is one of the cornerstones to marketing your home business on the internet. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most complicated and least understood aspects. In this blog post I hope to teach you some basics of SEO, how to implement the techniques I use, and when and how you should focus on SEO.
Obviously, the higher you’re rankings in the search engines, the more traffic you’re going to get. Usually, when people search for a keyword term, they only visit the websites listed on the first page, with the number 1 spot getting about 40% of the traffic. This is what SEO is all about. Getting your website ranking within the top 10 results on the first page, and then moving up to the top three spots to start getting floods of traffic.
So the question now becomes, how do you go about doing this?
SEO Techniques
There are two factors that contribute to the overall SEO process. There is on-page optimization, and off-page optimization. Search engines have algorithms which help to determine which web pages to rank and where they should be ranked. You need to meet some of the algorithm’s requirements in order to have a page that ranks in the top ten.
Now we don’t know how many requirements exist in any search engines ranking algorithm, some estimate that there are over 400 in Google’s algorithm. Knowing everything is not important, or even possible as most of the algorithm is top secret. But there are some basics that if you understand and implement will get you traffic. Read the rest of this entry












