Saturday, June 19, 2010

My thoughts on Search Engine Optimization

If you still visit and read my posts in here, thank you so much for spending some time. I felt a bit guilty of not writing much in this site and not bringing you some fresh and informative posts. Aside from having hectic schedules in school, my hands are also full in building up my other four new blogs! Sometimes, my brain drains already after updating those blogs that I'm left nothing to say on this site. No wonder I lost some of my best readers, commenters and followers. The quality of traffic in this blog doesn't improve and doesn't receive back its page rank after Mr.Google stripped it off a year ago. Thus, only few online opportunities were received by this blog.

I've shared this concern to a friend and she advised me on optimizing my pages for search engines . It is vital if I want people to find my pages. There are millions and millions of pages on the Web, and the chances of ever finding my pages is very slim unless I work on optimizing my site.

Now here comes my ignorance with some internet terms, I'm not really familiar with Search Engine Optimization so I have to dig in the net to know more about it. Thanks to Mr. G who's always just a click away.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page (such as a blog) from search engines via "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results as opposed to other forms of search engine marketing ("SEM") which may deal with paid inclusion. The theory is that the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

Now, I'm enlightened on how important SEO is. It's very important especially for those building websites for business purposes and only rely on search engines to get readers. But it can take a lot of time and effort on a continuing basis to optimize websites for search engines, isn't it? So it's a good idea to look at search engine marketing firms. I've been told that you could easily saved a lot of money if optimization companies were involved from the first stages of your site's development.

Would I pay a site to optimize my page? I think I'm not ready for that. I'm not yet earning much from this site so it's impractical for me to pay a site to optimize my page. I would only do so if I could establish a business online in the future. That is "IF I could..." only. As of now,I need to know how to make my website search engine friendly, and then submit my URL to all the major search engines if I want more readers to visit my page. I believe joining memes will help much, too. What do you think?


Her and History

1 comments:

Hi sis.. I do come here kapag idle time, you know naman kahit SAHM, medyo busy pa rin because of the neverending chores.. Thanks for sharing this SEO.. na-drain din ang utak ko sa kaka-search nito but with wp, may plugin na pwedi install, search mo All in one SEO.. if you like, install mo dun sa fashion explorer mo.. My gosh, di ko na nga na-uupdate yung wordpress ko.. sa blog pa lang ni Anzu, nauubos ang energy ng utak ko lol..

 

Share Your Thoughts!

This is a DO FOLLOW blog. Your comments are moderated. Your comments will make a history...so let's keep it friendly and memorable:)

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
 

Copyright © Her and History. Old Timer Theme created by WAHMaholic Blog Designs. Emoticons by BabyDoll.