Internet Marketing Strategies Using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Internet Marketing Strategies Using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
By Festus Taferi
Internet marketing means the use of the internet to advertise and sell goods and services. It includes banner and text advertising, email marketing, interactive advertising, affiliate marketing and search engine marketing (including search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising). The aim of using search engine optimization in internet marketing is to increase targeted traffic to one’s website via search engine rankings, paid listings and advertisements.
So, what is SEO?
It is the art and science of making your Web pages as relevant as possible. Here, relevance is a measure of how close your Web page is aligned to what the user is looking for. Simply, the more relevant your page is, the higher your rankings are by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista etc.
This means that if your web page is ranked high by the likes of Yahoo or Google, and a user searches for information that contains specific keywords/terms associated with your web page; your web page is most likely to be among the top 10 search results that will be presented to the user.
The act/art of adding keywords to ones web page for maximum relevance is what is known as search engine optimization (SEO).
Humans and search engines treat Web pages in different ways. Where people look at design and read text, search engines will scan and detect relevant keywords that it would use to rate your web page as having the relevant information that a user needs.
Such “key words” are strategically placed within the web page for search engines to “see” them. Also noteworthy is the relevance of your link popularity and theme. That is, who is linking to your page? Are they related to your site’s theme?
So how do search engines evaluate your Web pages?
They determine relevance of your page by breaking it into areas. Each area consists of elements, namely HTML tags. this engines emphasize some of these tags and scan them for your keyword. If found, your page is considered more relevant.
To optimize your pages, you need to learn these three main terms: Frequency, Prominence, and Weight.
A. Frequency:
Frequency is how often your keyword appears on the page or in its elements (Title, META Description and Keywords, visible text, H1, ALT, etc.).
B. Prominence:
Prominence is how close to the start of the tag your keyword appears. In general, a keyword that appears closer to the beginning of a page element (Title, META Description and Keywords, visible text, ALT, etc.) will make your Web page more relevant.
C. Weight / Density:
Keyword weight shows the number of times a keyword appears in an area as a percentage to all words in the page:
Keyword weight is calculated as the number of words in the key phrase multiplied by frequency and divided by the total number of words (including the keyword). Mathematically, it is:
Weight = (Words in keyword/All words) x 100%
Logically then, the higher the weight of a particular keyword in a page, the higher the ranking of the page for that keyword. However, repeating a keyword too often to increase its weight can cause the page to be penalized by the search engines.
Keyword weight is sometimes referred to as ‘Density’ which stands for the same notion – overall percentage of some definite word relative to all words in the text.
It is very important to balance your site’s optimization so that it is neither under-optimized nor over-optimized.
Under-optimization may get your site lost among hundreds of thousands of other sites. While over-optimization would get your site penalized or worse – banned from the search engines
Festus Taferi is an IT professional with over 9 years experience in online business development and marketing. Get more mind blowing SEO techniques at: http://linksman-seoplace.blogspot.com/.
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