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dimanche 13 septembre 2009

How Important Is Search Engine Optimization?

By Jack Spencer

Although almost everybody has at least heard a little bit about search engine optimization, the vast majority of people are really unsure exactly how important it is for their Internet marketing efforts. Some people may do quite well without really worrying about the traffic that they are getting from the search engines. Perhaps they're using social media or purchasing advertising in some way or another. The simple fact of the matter is, however, if you're not using search engine optimization, you're leaving a lot of money on the table.

I'd like to illustrate search engine optimization for you in order to make it a little bit easier to understand. Consider that you have a local store and there were are different groups of people that were coming in to it regularly. One group of people would only be casually interested in what you have to offer and they would be browsing around the store looking at the shelves. The other group of people, however, was searching for something very specific that you had and they were already holding their money.

Of course, it is rather obvious which of these groups of people you would rather have in your store as the one is going to mean that you are going to be an almost instant success. The fact is, having your website properly optimized for the search engine's is going to pull in this type of people to your website regularly.

There is a lot to be considered whatever you're thinking about optimizing your webpage for the search engines and there have been entire volumes that have been written on the subject. For the most part, however, search engine optimization can be broken down into two basic steps which are on-site optimization and off-site optimization. Understanding these two different steps can make all the difference in how successful you are with it.

The on-site optimization is fairly easy to do. You need to discover the key words that people are searching for in your particular niche and then include them on the pages on your website. You should make sure that they are included in the title tag, along with being sprinkled throughout the entire page naturally. Don't over do it, simply include them and that will be enough.

Optimizing your webpage off of the Internet is a little bit different than that. You need to get incoming links from a variety of different sources in order for your page to truly be considered optimized properly. There are so many different ways for you to do this but it is easier if you start with things such as article marketing and social bookmarking. One other thing that you might do is to write controversial information in order to pull in natural links.

Yes, search engine optimization is going to take a little bit of work on your part but getting that traffic for free from the search engines is going to make all the work that you put into it well worth it. It can help to pull in so much additional traffic to your website that it may overwhelm you at times but in the long run, what is really going to do is to push your business to the next level.

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