Very Noob Question on Optimizing for Search Engines

I have been reading over many posts and understand so little of the lingo.

When people talk about optimizing sites for search engines, what do they mean? I have a site already made and it has AdSense, how can I optimize it? Sorry if there is already a guide for this; I tried searching.

Also, how do I find out my page rank?

 

You can find your PR by downloading or installing the Google toolbar in your browser, or by going to any of the sites that offer the service for free (Search for "check google page rank".

 

Page Rank : from google toolbar or
http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
SEO means many factors

Theres ON PAGE SEO (content/meta tags / seo friendly urls / age of domanis)
Off page (i can say this means 80% of all seo) backlinks get quality one way backlinks with target anchor text

And use the SEARCH afunction and post in corect sections

 

Optimizing your site for search engine means that you are making your site in a way where the search engine indexes your site with the keywords you want.

This is not an easy job, and it takes a lot of time and effort. There many things you can do such as (Increase links to your site, Keyword density, and so on). There are many tools out there that can help you with search engine optimization.

 

As said before there are many things to do but I'll add to what's said, never use the same title for all your pages, use text for links and content more than images and flash, avoid frames, use alt tag for images with a good description, avoid iframes specially for site menu and optimize the anchor text for your keywords.

 

Optimizing involves both on page and off-page optimization.

 

or you can say optimize your site for search engine means you try to get your site show in a first few ranks, pages of the search result. the higher rankign you got the more traiic you can get.
to achieve those you need to do lots of works both onpage and offpage SEO. more info you can find from SEO section. ^^

 

If you really don't have a clue, just install an SEO-friendly CMS like Wordpress and go from there.

 

Yes - wordpress is a good place to start (you will need to make a few changes from the default install but it is easily done and you can search to optimize wordpress - this will give you all the info you need to start off).

From there, you will then need to look at continued off-page optimization (as well as producing more content to keep your visitors coming back etc).

 

Here's a good article on basic SEO:

http://www.quantawebdesign.com/tips/optimization-tips.html

cheers ~
Denise