So what is all the fuss about? You have a website, now what? Well for your website to gain any hits through search engines it needs to be optimized so that the search engines can index the information properly for the viewer to find, preferably on the first page.
The prime focus of a search engine is to give the searcher the most accurate information they are searching for. And that is why the search engines are so fussy about what content is on your web page relative to what is indexed on the search engine database.
There are some sneaky developers who try all sorts of fancy tricks to gain a first page position at the risk of being banned from the search engines.
We concentrate our efforts mainly on Google, Yahoo and MSN (or whatever they are calling themselves today) because most other search engines feed off these three. Google being the most popular has the strictest rules and change their algorithms on a regular basis to avoid the sneaky guys from taking up valuable real estate on the pages reserved for the genuine websites with the most relevant content.
How it works…
The search engines send out spiders or crawlers to investigate the information on your website and index it in the most appropriate place for searchers to find. When searching for a keyword or phrase the search engine then delivers the most relevant sites first and this depends on a number of factors which is what search engine optimization is all about, which is to make the search engine index the information appropriately.
To get you website index could take months or even years if a SEO strategy is not implemented or poorly implemented. There are no quick fix methods just long tedious tasks that require the knowledge and tools of a good SEO engineer.