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Mario Puzo-The Godfather Eng
Mario Puzo-The Godfather Eng
Mario Puzo-The Godfather Eng
- Plain and simple, search engine optimization is the process of making
improvements on and off your website in order to gain more exposure in search
engine results. And more exposure in search engine results will ultimately lead to
more visitors finding you for the right reasons. In order to understand what
improvements will affect search engine results, let's take a step back and
understand the goal of the search engines themselves. At the heart of it all, search
engines are just trying to find and understand all the content out there on the
internet, and then quickly deliver relevant and authoritative results based on any
searches for something like California hotels, search engines want to show a list of
all of the webpages they have ever visited, and pick out the pages that they believe
are the most relevant to California hotels. They determine this by evaluating lots of
different factors, including how your content is written and implemented in code, as
well as how other websites around the internet are linking to you. And all of this is
stuffed into a very big, very complex, and very proprietary index. At the end of the
day, and in a fraction of a second, the search engine is then able to use complex
algorithms to rank and display all of those webpages in order of relevance to that
phrase that the user just typed in, California hotels. This is very important to
understand because search engines make a very clear distinction between content
that's about California hotels versus content relevant for other phrases, like
California resorts, or a phrase like a beach getaway. Search engines are able to
understand quite a bit about semantic and thematic connections between words
and concepts. Take another example search query, dog crates. A search engine
it also knows that websites about pet carriers are very relevant, too. And it knows
that a website promoting things like pet food or dog toys might also be relevant to
the search query, but perhaps to a lesser extent. The other factor that influences
search engine exposure is an authority. In other words, out there on the largely
lawless world wide web, where anyone can post anything, is your website a trusted
place on the internet that the search engines would want to show to their users? One
very common way that search engines determine the authority of a webpage or a
domain is by evaluating what other websites link to you, and this can be measured
people are saying about you on the internet, a category collectively referred to as
website is almost like saying, hey, I trust your content enough that I'm willing to
reference your page and possibly even send my traffic to your site. It's a vote of
trust, and the search engines pick up on this as they scour the web, reading,
evaluating, and storing all the data they can find on all the pages of the internet. But
it's important to know right from the start that this is not just a popularity contest
where you try to accumulate the most votes or links on the internet. Search engines
have safeguards in place to prevent this kind of abuse, and instead, place an
emphasis on the quality and relevance of a link. For example, a search engine is
more likely to trust a link if it comes from a well-respected or industry-related site,
field of work. If you were the owner of that California hotel, you may have links from
travel review sites, local chambers of commerce, or things like local travel bureaus.
All that is pretty relevant. A link coming from a one-month-old site that has nothing
tossed from the results pages altogether. From the search engine's perspective,
some links are more effective than others in casting their vote to your website and
determining your site's authority. So you might think of this whole system as a
how important both relevance and authority are to a search engine will help us to