qwertypunk

hi guys,
i have several times heard of seo but i haven't yet understood what it means. could you please explain me about it as well as differentiate between seo and website promotion.

jumpenjuhosaphat

Well, SEO is a part of website promotion. SEO, or search engine optimization, is optimizing your site to better your position in the search engines results. There are two types of SEO, on page SEO, which includes properly forming and using HTML tags, including meta data, using the title tag, etc....and off page SEO, which includes link building. Alot of on page and off page SEO will include keyword research and learning where and when to use those keywords.

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for more information see this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

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seo: is to master all factors that will help your web site to rank well with search engines for specific keywords(on-page and off-page optimization factors).

web site promotion is to get more traffic and to get more visibility to your web site it can be online or offline. the most important is the online because it will help you to drive traffic and the same time to rank well with search engines du to the number of links pointing to your web site.

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SEO = Getting your page to the top of google!

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Dexter

Ultimately the main purpose is all about traffic generation. A website without traffic is just like open a shop without crowd. Which mean nobody will know where and what you are doing or selling...

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HotSauce

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) also entails building links. The idea is to target a few keywords that is related to your site and get as many links possible with your desired keywords. There is more to it than just link building. As eprosumer put it "SEO = Getting your page to the top of google!"

Jackal

SEO is important as it will allow your site to rank higher thus allowing to have more traffic, and ultimately, more revenue.

princess23

SEO is a way of making your site appear in good position at SERP, it is bringing traffic to your site.

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olkin

Like the definition of seo given here .

Dexter

Never worry about SEO. There are many other way to generate traffic as well.

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topseofirm

Hi,
well SEO is nothing but the second face of coin(web promotion). For more detailed information abt SEO and terms related to it, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

Thanx & regards,
keyur parmar
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jwd25

SEO - search engine optimisation- is expensive. In Singapore, an SEO consultant are paid anything from S$3,000 - S$10,000.

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SEO is personal to everyone as there is no real carved in stone definition.

I would say that the key is in the last word. OPTIMISATION
Optimisation means simply to reach an optimum. so that means make your site the best it can be. For me SEO goes WAAAAAAAAYYYY beyond the easy bit of getting a site to the top. SEO for me is about conversions, profitability usability visitor retention maximising spend etc REAL WORLD outcomes. The things that matter. So you think that the most important thing is to be at the top of the search engines? NOPE.

If I was to ask you all what your goal is for your site, you would mostly say 'to get to number one for all my keywords'. This is so sad. A person goes to the hardware store to buy a drill bit. WHY? does he WANT a drill bit? NO he WANTS a HOLE, but you need a drill bit to MAKE the hole

So I ask again, what do you want from your site?

NOW list what you want it to achieve eg £30,000 per year..

Let's say it is £30k that you want. HOW can you achieve this? Say each visitor is worth £0.25, then you need 120,000 visitors right? WRONG.

If you can up the visitor value to £0.50 then you can earn £30k with 60k visitors. Assume for the purpose of illustration that your conversion ratio is 1 in 100. Get the conversion ratio down to 1:50 and you can earn £30 with 30,000 visitors. With me so far?

HERE IS THE KICKER THOUGH.

You now have an optimised site and are earning£1 per visitor. Remeber that 120,000 visitors you needed to earn £30,000 . NOW they will earn you £120,000

THAT my friends is my take on professional SEO

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btw, in what way can forum help in generate traffic to your site...?

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