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Search Engine Optimization
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Search Engine Optimization

by Harold Davis
May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
48 pages
1h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Search Engine Optimization

SEO—short for Search Engine Optimization—is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites.

Web traffic is food, drink, and oxygen—in short, life itself—to any web-based business.

Some web sites depend on broad, general traffic. These businesses need hundreds of thousands or millions of hits per day to prosper and thrive. Other web businesses are looking for high-quality, targeting traffic. This traffic is essentially like a prequalified sales prospect: already interested and able to buy your product.

This PDF has the tools and information you need to draw more traffic to your site, and build your bottom line. You’ll learn how to effectively use PageRank and Google itself—effective use of SEO means understanding how Google works: how to boost placement in Google search results, how not to offend Google, and how best to use paid Google programs. You’ll also learn how to best organize your web pages and web sites, apply SEO analysis tools, establish effective SEO best practices, and much more.

When you approach SEO, take some time to understand the characteristics of the traffic that you need to drive your business. Then go out and use the techniques explained in this PDF to grab some traffic—and bring life to your business.

SEO’s Evolution

Originally fairly narrowly conceived as a set of techniques for rising to the top of search engine listings, search engine optimization, or SEO, has conceptually expanded to include all possible ...

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