What Is SEO?
Published: December 1, 2014
Categories: Open Source
Let’s start with a common story from a website owner before jumping right into what SEO is. A website was created by IT professionals as per the business’s needs. The website looked great and the functionality was working well – everyone was happy with the results. Once the site was live, the owner prepared upward to a 1,000 mails to send to his friends and connections to announce the launch of this amazing new website. Fast forward a few months, he is running his business and getting some customers, but not as many as he anticipated. He wants to be attracting world-wide customers. What is holding him back? Why isn’t his site getting the maximum number of hits? That can all be explained with SEO – a website can look and function perfectly, but if the search engines do not know about it, it is all for nothing.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving and promoting a website in terms of increasing the number of visitors from search engines. In other words SEO is making websites in a well-structured format that search engines understand. SEO is a great technique that helps to place your website and display search results higher than the millions of other sites out there. Search Engine Optimization is not just for targeting search engines and making search engine friendly website, it is also about making a website better for the viewers too.
There are leading search engines, such as Google, Bing and Yahoo!, these search engines are unique in that they provide targeted traffic, people looking for what you offer.If search engines cannot find your site, or add your content to their databases, you miss out on incredible opportunities to get traffic to your site.
Below are a few helpful links you can visit for even more information:
Google SEO guide
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
http://www.google.com/analytics/
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
https://adwords.google.co.in/KeywordPlanner
https://www.google.com/adwords/
http://www.google.com/trends/
Internally Charter Global actively implements best SEO and SMO practices. Take a look at our social channels and engage with us: Face Book, Google+,Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube. We understand the importance of a fully optimized site, recently, Charter Global was been named as one of the Top 17 staffing and recruiting websites for 2014 by EchoGravity! Over 700 company websites were analyzed and we made the top 17, right alongside other big industry leaders.
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