Why Beginners Can Succeed at Search Engine Optimization

Don't know what a meta tag is? Don't worry it won't affect your search engine rankings! A lot of gurus suggest that you have to be an expert to get high rankings. You simply don't. Search Engine Optimization is pretty simple. Once you understand the basic concepts anyone can do it and rank well!

Think about it for a moment.

The aim of all the search engines is to provide fresh, original content to the person looking for it. Once you understand that statement, SEO becomes really easy.

Now you understand what the search engines are looking for, it follows that a web page needs to meet the following criteria to rank well:
- it needs to have original content
- the content needs to be clearly defined
- the page needs to contain high quality content

What this means to you as an internet marketer or publisher is:
- you need to write your own content
- you need to focus key elements of your web page around your keywords
- you need to write quality content that people will value and want to share

How well you need to do the above three elements in order to rank well depends on how competitive your targeted keywords are?

The more competitive your keyword phrase is, the bigger the challenge you'll face to achieve a high ranking for it. If there are only a few sites competing for it, it won't take too much effort to get ranked on the first page of Google. Well targeted, original content will simply do the job.

But, when the competition increases and you start to compete with thousands if not millions of other pages, you'll need more than well focused, original content, you'll need quality as well, and lots and lots of inbound links!

Why? Well lets consider exactly how the search engines measure quality...
It's pretty simple in practice. The search engines count how many sites link to your content. A link coming in to your page from another webmaster's site is seen as a recommendation. Therefore, the more pages you compete with for your chosen keyword phrase, the more inbound links you need for your pages to rank highly.

SEO is that simple! Experts try and over complicate it so they can sell you their products and services.

Simply place your keywords in your page title, page header and a few times in the content of your article, and then get lots of sites to link to your page.

Keywords and Links equal High Rankings!

The main reason that so many would be marketers fail at SEO, is purely because they want to rank highly overnight for competitive keywords! It simply won't happen.

Getting lots of free traffic from the search engines requires lots of time, effort and focus.

Apply all three of those, and you'll succeed at SEO.

SEO For Newbies

Seeing that you are a noob in the Affiliate Marketing Industry and you are only just starting to stick your head out and trying to delve deeper into the inner workings of this form of online money making. As you start to learn more about Affiliate Marketing you will surely come across the "SEO" term, meaning search engine optimization. In fact you probably already have and by now you might think that thats what affiliate marketing is all about, trying to rank up high for a specific keyword in the search engines. Well in a sense that is certainly true, but there are tons of other ways to get targeted trafficand make money online.
So the main idea around SEO is to rank as high as possible for a certain keyword or phrase, in this case trying to rank top 4... Which are your money spots, these four spots receive the most traffic and most of the time cash out the most seeing that the traffic they are receiving is absolutely free as well as super high converting.

*Would you like to learn more about Search Engine Optimization as well as Affiliate Marketing?
*Then keep in touch with the upcoming blogs in this site.

Introduction to SEO: What is SEO?

Tough question, "What is SEO?". As with pretty much all internet-related terms, concepts and notions, that of "SEO" does not have a unique definition and it is a blurry concept in most people's mind. Still, what is SEO? Since there is no ultimate, fully comprehensible definition for "SEO", the only way to go is to take a look at several definitions and try to merge them in order to have the right perspective.

Wikipedia : "Search engine optimization (SEO) is a set of methodologies aimed at improving the visibility of a website in search engine listings. The term also refers to an industry of consultants that carry out optimization projects on behalf of client sites."

Website NOVA : "acronym for search engine optimization. This is the process of making a website 'search-engine-friendly. Search engine optimization is primarily used to increase rankings in SERPs, and effective SEO can increase the potential of your website and bring in more traffic."

SEO = abbreviation for "Search Engine Optimization", the process of optimizing and tuning a web site and gaining online awareness for it, in order to deliver targeted visitors and ensure high conversion rates.
When done correctly, SEO activities must:
- make search engines crawl the site;
- make search engines index the site;
- achieve a high page rank;
- drive targeted traffic;
- achieve high conversion rates among the site's visitors.
- ensure a high ranking among SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for given keywords;