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Learn what SEO is and how to do it

By , About.com GuideNovember 19, 2007

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SEO or search engine optimization is a technique where you write Web pages that are attractive to your readers and to the search engine spiders that catalog Web sites. You are optimizing your pages to rank well in organic searches. The goal is to create Web pages that contain useful information for your readers that is understandable by the robots or spiders that search engines use to crawl your Web site and add pages to their database.
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November 19, 2007 at 12:05 pm
(1) Kathryn says:

What is the difference between Web Design and Web Development? Everything I read interchanges these words. But, when is it correct to each word?

November 19, 2007 at 1:02 pm
(2) Jennifer Kyrnin says:

Hi Kathryn,

Personally, I tend to use them in this way:

Web development – the business of planning, designing, building and maintaining Web sites – includes all aspects (graphics, design, content, programming)

Web design – the graphical or design aspects of the job. In other words, in my writing I would refer to a Web designer as someone who decides what the site will look like.

Note that About.com uses the term “Web Design” the way I use “Web Development”. I think that that is the more commonly used term – but some people get twitchy if a programmer builds a simple Web site and then says s/he “designed” it. :-)

December 29, 2008 at 5:04 am
(3) Ronen Hersh says:

Thank you for this!

I like SEO so much and when I see the results I’m just amazed, now I started using SEO ELITE from http://www.seoellite.com and I have to say that I’m shocked from it. I wanted to reach the top position on a very competitive keyword that had 7,535,444 results and that software helped until now to get to the second page of the free results and I know I will get to the #1 because I’m using it for only 23 days. So what I want to do is to use the software and combine the things you said in your great post and I hope I will reach my goal.

Wish me luck because I wish you:)

Great post and thanks for the info.

Mike G

February 6, 2009 at 6:41 am
(4) rassik says:

hi
i know about PPC networ and SEO..
but i dont know how to work on it..
can u explain about it

March 11, 2009 at 6:30 am
(5) aswinkumars says:

can any one help me how to so seo for my site.

May 13, 2009 at 1:17 am
(6) johna says:

Hey what things effects the SEO

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