What is that SEO mean anyway? It means Search Engine Optimization and its all the rage.
See, each search engine compiles it’s search results differently using algorithms, wizards, and little gnomes to rank pages all across the internet. Knowing how they do it and then tailoring your pages to their algorithms and gnomes liking is one of the biggest battles a webmaster can go through. Staying up to date it seems like is a full-time job and there are even blogs, lots of them, devoted to following Search Engine Optimization, for all the different search engines.
Really there are three search engines where if you follow your stats you can see that the bulk of your traffic comes from, or at least your search traffic anyhow. Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Each of them have slightly different ways of “indexing” your blog. Indexing is essentially putting all of your web pages into their system so people can search your content. Once they finally index your pages, they rank them for different keywords and keyword combinations.
Your job as a part-time blogger is to follow how they rank your pages and optimize your blog for that. As a part-time blogger that’s a tough thing to keep up with day to day. Like we said, it’s a full-time bloggers job, many of them.
We’ll be giving you tips here and there but the biggest thing you can do is get links and stick to keywords. Following those tips will help you optimize without knowing you’re doing it.
