SEO and SEM Explained By a Dummy!

Search Engine Optimization is the process of makingway that you want like buying something or giving
your website and individual web pages friendly to theyou their contact information so that you can follow
search bots (spiders) and the human reviews of webup and fulfill the objective that you had in mind when
pages and sites for the directories. This is a simpleyou built the site.
fact: if your webpage does not rank in the top 20Search Engine Marketing grew out of SEO basically it
for your keywords you don't have a website, whatcombines SEO with Pay Per Click(PPC) , Pay per
you have instead is a very expensive electronicImpression and link strategies that come in a lot of
broacher. Lots of people think that if you have yourdifferent varieties. The idea here is too buy yourself
brother in law put some keywords into the metalinks and high placement for your keywords in order
tags that is all that there is too it. Which would beto improve the relevance and organic rankings in the
the same as your neighbor knows some first aid, sosearch engines, while at the same time drive traffic
you go to him for a triple bypass surgery, soundsto the site if it sounds hard to do it is and that is
ludicrous, but I see people that believe that and betwhy it is one of the hottest tech careers right now.
their online presence on it. If SEO were that easy itGoogle AdWords would be the number one PPC
would be great, however that is not the case.followed by in no particular order MSN Ad Center and
Here is a very simplified breakdown of SEO. The URLone of the originals, Overture which is part of Yahoo
is to the title, which is to the description, which is toSearch Marketing now. There are some smaller ones
the headings, and the headings are to the alt tags,in the arena as well; AdBrite, Knoodle and 7Search
and then keywords, keyword phrases and properare a few of the smaller ones out there. One of the
keyword density in the content. The headings, themost popular linking strategies now would be blogs
title, the alt tags and the URL have the keywordsand researching sites that are relevant to your site,
and keyword phrases incorporated into them,and asking for a link.
followed by the bottom header of the title again andA whole new area is also coming into the main
find links. Oh and make it look natural. A good SEOstream conscience now which would be the social
person can and will spend up to an hour just on anetworking sites like Flicker, You Tube and My Space.
description for a single page to get it correct andReciprocal linking was all the rage for a while;
that doesn't even appear on what you see on thehowever it has fallen out of favor as a reciprocal links
page when you view it. They will also spend hourswill balance each other out. A tried and true way of
researching what your keywords and keywordsgetting links is writing good copy that has value to
phrases should be in order to maximize the numberothers, and then they will want to link to you, like
of qualified eyeballs that land on your page. Awriting articles on areas that you are a expert on like
Qualified eyeball is someone likely to take action in athis one.