Thursday, February 3, 2011

Search Engine Optimization-Techniques


A website is a compulsion now a days for any business company or firm. Opportunities come clicking their way into the site for want of a product or service. The products offered must be properly advertised to the internet users. Generally people search for any product or service in any search tool bar, and the first top results are explored. A site is listed in the result if the keyword typed in the search bar is linked to it. One of the optimization techniques employed for increasing your site visibility is using the linked keywords. When a visitor clicks on the keyword, the browser will be directed to your site.

Linking are of two different ways. Internal linking where in, the keyword in a page of the site can link to another page in the same site. Creating pointed links from other sites to your own site needs to be done in affiliation of the other site. Like for example an advertisement on a different site can have links pointing to your site for certain keywords. Having more links is always advantageous. The search engine calculates the ranking of a particular site taking into consideration of all above factors. Ranking of a site, decides the place in the result listings. Generally users do not bother to see the listings after the first page. Hence it is very important for one's site link to appear in first page of the listings.

There are a certain guidelines to effectively use linking in your own site. The keywords used for linking must not be repeated. This is considered as spam by the search engine. Same meaning words can be used as links. The famous search engine Google allows 100 such links in a page. Keywords must be chosen with proper care.

One can link the footer to important pages of the site. There are many search engine optimization experts, who are well versed with the techniques and working of the search engine. Their insight of the engine related algorithms for ranking help in deciding on the strategies to be employed.

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