Search Engine Optimisation

[tali1]

I'm rather new to SEO-seems to be something for programmers tinkering with hmtl ? .SEO keywords - aren't you limited by number of keywords you can use anyway ? - and won't have other similar content sites also used those keywords ? so you're back to square one ?
And what about tags ? arn't they supposed to do what
Is SEO a general use of keywords -or do you have to use specfic ones for each article ie Premier League article anda Championship one
Hope that makes sense.I have read (lots!) online but it is still rather confusing and technical

[Buenchico]

In the early days of web design, the idea was that tags could be used to help search engines to produce relevant results. However the fight to get particular websites near to the top of the ratings of Google (et al) meant that some website designers would happily add tens of thousands of tags to their websites, making the whole system rather meaningless. So nowadays search engines largely (or totally) ignore tags.

Keywords can be more useful but you'll still find plenty of websites where the bottom part of the page is taken up by hundreds, or even thousands, of keywords. (They'll be in very small script or even in white type on a white background, so that Google's web crawlers can see the text but the page visitor can't). So, while keywords can help search engines up to a point, they can still end up being less useful than the site designer might have planned on (simply because there are thousands of other websites using the same keywords).

What search engines really look for these days are websites which have got loads of links to them on other sites, suggesting that they might be genuinely of interest to people. However that results in the sort of spam that we get here on AB in the early hours of each morning, where there are loads of posts containing links. The spammers couldn't care less that nobody here is likely to click on those links. They also couldn't care less that a moderator is likely to to zap those posts within a few minutes. They know that Google's web crawlers check this site continuously, so those links will have been picked up, boosting the relevant sites' rankings.

So what you really ought to be trying to do is to work out how to get plenty of links to your website(s).

[tali1]

Thing is SEO is touted as be all and end all.What i also find confusing as a non -techie is the fiddly html editing required-this seems akin to the old days of command prompt for MS DOS

[farabi-seo]

SEO abbreviation is Search Engine Optimization.Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit 'enter' you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query.In one word SEO is the best way to boost your visibility online.

[mark-taylor]

You have to first choose your proper, relevant & well analyzed keywords on the basis you you want to rank your website. If you use same keywords as other sites do then they will become your competitors.
Tags are mostly considered as keywords.

[KendraSpringfiel]

Article Submission and Blog commenting work best for me. These techniques have the capacity to increase your ranking.

[AmelCS42]

For different types of website, keywords differ according to their products and location. Keywords are not limited to a website. You can use as many as you can. If you are taking services of an SEO Company,
then you should think about limited but good traffic keywords based on you packages. For a quality SEO at affordable SEO packages