What is SEO, why is it important?
- Norfolk Web Support
Most companies under-estimate the power of the web and how it can help your business. Search engines such as Google, Bing and Yell are quickly becoming the first place people look when wanting to find a company, product or service. This is where SEO becomes the key to making a website work…
What is SEO? It is an abbreviation for Search Engine Optimisation and is used as a key tool for website owners to get more traffic to the website. What does it do? It’s a way of analysing and building websites so that they can be found a lot easier when they are indexed by the search engines.
SEO can help make the content on your website more relevant and easier to understand when the search engines are crawling your site and indexing the data.
If you search for help in trying to get your website higher in the search engine results you will find hundreds if not thousands of different methods that claim they can help, however I believe SEO is by far and away the most effective method used to date, the reason for this is because by structuring the content effectively and getting link backs shows the search engines your site is more valuable thus making them more inclined to rank your site higher.
The goal when using SEO on a website is to get the traffic increased and to appear on the first few pages of the search engine, also ensuring that the website stays in this position and comes ahead of the competition in the search engine results.