Tuesday, August 22, 2006

newbie in SEO/SEM

SEO....Search Engine Optimization......this is the new terminology in the world of marketing, one of the marketing strategies that a webmaster must have in order for him/her to be able to make his web site visible and also to be at the top-most pages of the popular websites such as Yahoo, Google, etc.

Basically, trying to find and get links, especially backlinks from other websites with high PR like one of the SEO consultant had stated on his web site, although Google's PR is just one of the applications of link popularity but not the same as link popularity, we can find other tools that can help a webmaster find more links from other sites which can be done either manually or automatically.

But even though, SEO is very much the new buzzword, and it is very crucial for new businesses or new web sites, it is still very uncommon to find it cheap, it is not cheap and if you want to do it yourself, you still have to use most of your time finding the best tools out there, some of the are okay but not reliable enough. But every webmaster must be knowledgeable about SEO in order to tweak their web sites and also to be more popular...speaking of popularity, bloggers everywhere want to get traffic, earn revenue from their blogs and also to get popular on the web, that is why using SEO under Search Engine Marketing is very important.
I am abit left behind in this whole SEO thingy but I am sure that it is useful for any blogger that is willing to share their thoughts and find links from other searchable websites.
I am still a newbie though and I am still learning about SEM, it is very expensive if you are looking for a SEO consultant and it is very encouraging if you find articles and blogs about SEO.
Although, critics have complained that a high PR doesn't deduce that the site has a high link popularity. You can't conclude that your links have alot to do with your PR status, but your PR tells alot about your site indexes and meta tag crawlers that the search engines use. If you site is not searchable, no PR and if it has no meta tags, no PR maybe...ask the profesionals!

There is a lot more to find out about SEO, and I am still trying to understand how it works....without the whole gaga about it being protrayed by the consultants online..... still a newbie...and just my own cup of coffee!


~fatyma~

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