SEO: What is it?

Discussion in 'All Other Search Engines' started by satyrion, Nov 20, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi can someone give me a good explenation about SEO what it is, and how it works.

    For exampel i saw a guy here have 1k uniques a day on monday, after that he did some SEO stuff and the next day he had 13k uniques, how do u raise ur stats by 1200% over night?
     
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  2. prince4life

    prince4life Active Member

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    I will start it out by saying it's search engine optimization. It's basically just optimizing your site to make it rank better on search engines so there will be more traffic because more people will be finding your site.
     
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    boron Well-Known Member

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    Are you asking for the website in your signature?

    First, you have to decide for which keywords you want to optimize your site, e.g. "Thai cooking", Thai food" or so. But, regarding there are many sites in Google under these keywords, you may want to choose some more specific keyword.
     
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    Dvae Banned

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    yah,yah, definitely yes.
     
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    Hafsoh Banned

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    seo is using the content of a website and the website itself and making it the best possible way of the website to be found on search engines. The true values of optimization are clear content, coherent navigation, wide reputation for quality, and high visibility in search engines. with this true values there will be huge traffic in your website.
     
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  6. Tom Wigley

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    SEO is a longterm investment, to get higher ranked in search engines, which will provide you with more traffic for years.
    PPC is short term, is instant traffic but nothing lasts once the money stops.
     
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  7. thewindmaster

    thewindmaster The Man with the Plan

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    SEO explanation from wiki.
     
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    I had some very good help with seo which took my site to number 4 for my keyword and number 1 for so many key phrases. Start off with good quality one way links, achieved by having good solid content that people want to link with. I also write a lot of articles on my chosen subject and offer it to other sites in exchange for a link in my bio. Updating your site often to keep the info fresh. NEVER trying to do anything under hand to cheat the search engines, just keeping a clean and tidy site, add a privacy page if applicable, site map, be professinal with it.

    Loads more, but this is what I always put at the top of my list.
     
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    ha ha ha, you post up the wickapedia for him. lol.
     
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  13. WatchOut

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    SEO = Search Engine Optimisation

    What does SEO mean? I can write a full story regarding SEO though I will try to limit it to a few words; by using SEO methods on your web site you increase your SERPs on Search engines, higher rankings for each keyword you target.

    There's lots of ways you can achive a good rank in search engines, you may want to browse around the DP forums for some well-written user guides explaining SEO and how to learn some basic steps to a better rank on search engines.

    Meti
     
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    SEO helps alot but It defently wont happen over night..
    But you can see results in less then a month some times. Some times longer there is a certian trial and error aspct of it esp when doing it your self.
    It takes a little while for the bots to crawl your site and index your updated pages..

    Also you could pay a reputable SEO company to optomize your site for you :)
     
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    Agreed, moving up in search engines does take time. But, if you know what you are doing you can move up in a relatively quickly. Getting 1200% increase from search engines overnight just doesn't happen. Whoever told you that lied.
     
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    plain and simple, it's optimizing your site for search engines, namely Google.

    People "seo" their sites to get more traffic from google, yahoo, ask, msn...
     
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    search engine optimization is the process of optimizing your web page to become search engine friendly, the common goal of seo is to rank your keyword to top ten of the SERP (search engine result page) to get the highest possibility to get traffic coming from search engine but of course seo thinks and analyze the right keyword with the highest searches per month.
     
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    I won't explain what has already been explained. However, I will add this: If someone raises their visitors by 12k overnight, it probably wasn't due to search engine optimization. Search engines usually don't work that fast. They probably did some other internet marketing things (digg, blogs, etc.) to get that kind of traffic bump overnight.
     
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