Once you learn about blogging, you will come across this term – SEO. Almost every “teach you how to blog website” will talk about this. What is it? It stands for Search Engine Optimization.
What is it all about? Is it that important that a website/blog owner should be aware of it? Well, I can tell you that, there are many things to cover when talk about SEO. It”s a subject to learn by all times.
First of all, let”s take a look at a couple of definitions quoted from the web.
the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. [Source: Webopedia]
is the process of optimizing a website through an extensive mixture of caca-niqueis tasks that help improve a website”s presence on the search engines. [Source: Ezine Articles]
Apparently, by the name itself, you know that SEO has something to do with search engines (ie. Google, Yahoo!, MSN). From the definitions above, we know that SEO is a way to get your sites/blogs high listed in the search engines.
Why do we even bother about get high listed?
This actually brings some impact to your blog. Imagine a search engine user (a.k.a. reader) type in a keyword in the search engine. If the user is searching something related to your blog, you might get a higher chance of your blog listed in the search results. Hence, you get a higher chance that the user might click to your blog. Traffic! It draws traffic to your blog!
I believe now you should see the importance of SEO. However, don”t be too obsess on building SEO and forget about quality content of your blog.
Google – The famous search engine.
If you”ve been an Internet user for some time, you should know that Google is sort of owning the Internet world. Therefore, whatever statement made by Google, we bloggers, have to be aware of (if you want to gain benefit from Google).
Google has implemented something called PageRank. It has something to do with SEO. Will talk about PageRank in the next post. Stay tune!
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