Have a brand new website that is not getting any attention? It\u2019s probably because the site hasn\u2019t been looked at through the eyes of SEO or search engine optimization.\u00a0 Webmasters, professional and enthusiasts, have a great love for building unique personal websites. Often times though, the idea of getting better positioning in search engines its left to the way side and this brings up the concept of SEO.<\/p>\n
What is SEO?<\/strong><\/p>\n Search engine optimization is simply a process of attempting to improve the overall visibility in search engines on the internet.\u00a0 Each search engine has a slightly different algorithm that they employ to determine websites relevance in relation to a keyword or phrase searched for by a user.\u00a0 This means that the approach of search optimization for each search engine is slightly different, but there are a set of core standards and approaches that are universal across them all.<\/p>\n Why is SEO important? <\/strong><\/p>\n Think of the search engines like a traditional phone book. If you\u2019re hungry and want a pizza, you\u2019ll look up in the yellow pages pizza companies.\u00a0 Often times, without realizing it, you go for the flashiest ad on the page, when determining the company you\u2019re going to order from.\u00a0 What if you were a pizza company owner who didn\u2019t appear in the phone book? Chances are you wouldn\u2019t get a large volume of business considering the aforementioned example.\u00a0 This is why optimization is so important.<\/p>\n If you, as a business owner, sell the next big thing and everyone you know loves it, that\u2019s great. But if no one else knows about it or can\u2019t find it with any ease, you\u2019ll lose a tremendous amount of potential business and traffic.\u00a0 If search engines are the phone book of the internet and you\u2019re not in it, and not easy to find, you probably won\u2019t get much business.\u00a0 This makes SEO a critical task for any webmaster, or business owner with a website.<\/p>\n Still not convinced? Consider This<\/strong><\/p>\n A local restaurant opens up in your area.\u00a0 The owner advertises on the television and in a few magazines every so often.\u00a0 You decided to go out to eat at this new restaurant and you try to find the address on Google.com. You search for the restaurant but nothing comes up. You try another search engine and again, nothing relevant comes up. How many times will you do this before you find another place to eat?<\/p>\n The bottom line is you need to spend some time learning about SEO and how it affects your website. SEO can make or break a website in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have a brand new website that is not getting any attention? It\u2019s probably because the site hasn\u2019t been looked at through the eyes of SEO or search engine optimization.\u00a0 Webmasters,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2108,2272,117],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-sem","tag-algorithm","tag-earch-engine-optimization","tag-seo"],"views":115,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}