By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2009-11-08 21:07:09 | Word Count: 466
It is very important to know that what is SEO and when it comes in the picture. It is worldwide practice which has been used to improve a particular website's ranking on the Search Engines, like Google, Yahoo, Bing and there are many others. To consider your website for specified search terms it is definitely important that the content is well researched and optimized with selected keywords. This practice is well known as "onsite" SEO.
The important aspect is, it requires some knowledge for making sure that you have set up your website with the correct Meta page titles, Meta tags, page headings, image 'ALT' tags, file names and content. And the most important thing is you need to place your keywords, key-phrases with well optimized content.
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When search engine crawls on your website then it looks for the navigation structure of the website and folder structure as well. It is very important that you have to organize your website before publishing it. It's good practice that you optimize your code such a way that most important sections of the website can be read easily by user. Once you put all your handwork for making highly appealing and search engine friendly website you need to wait for few weeks or few months to get desired results on search engines.
There is one good technique called link building which is very popular to get high ranking. This technique is linking your website with many other websites. The links which your site will get from other site will behave as a vote to your web site. This is the way by which Google rank each website by looking at other website who have a link pointing back to your site. There are other techniques like submitting websites to directories, submitting articles and press releases, Social networking. All this techniques will help you to get quality links to your website.
Above mentioned SEO techniques are mainly divided in two parts "on-site" and "off-site" optimization. Onsite optimization is a technique where you will take care of website structure, content, code optimization, and directory structure. In off site optimization you will take care of link building by directory submission, Article writing, Blogs etc.
It will be good for you to do some research and understand search engines techniques to rank each website. There are many parameters which search engine takes into account to rank website. Though this secrets are never revealed to the world but you need to do some research on it to understand the search engines Page ranking technique.
