What is SEO? It is the process of making sure that your website has been written in such a way to get the search engines (google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.) to list your website higher in the rankings when a search is conducted that your website pertains to.
There are a lot of ways to get the search engines to rank you higher (or lower) based on what information your website contains. If you try to cheat it can actually make your rankings go down.
“So what do I do?”
That is a hard questions because the Search Engines are constantly changing the way they work
- First,Think about your message and content, choose the keywords that describe your business, choose the best, use the tools to see how they will help your rankings.
- Second, make sure that your pages are ‘optimized’ and don’t have errors that can cause problems with the way the search engine reads your site.
- Third, keep the content fresh! If you havent updated your content and information in years, you will have problems getting ranked high.
- Fourth, get friends, business partners, etc to link to your pages. If your site has a lot of links to it, it will help with your rankings. (And be sure to reciprocate )
There are a lot of tools out there to help, but you may also want to contact someone who does this regularly. A pro will know the best way and what to use and what to shy away from!
Be sure to check with www.thewolf.net . Get help in optimizing your site and to get you listed higher in the search engines!
