So how does one get seen among the Internet masses? It’s real simple but fairly involved. The process is called search engine optimization, or better known as seo. SEO is just that, it is a means of optimizing your site, so the search engines, like yahoo and google, can find your site.

SEO occurs in a variety of ways. One is by the search engines releasing what coders know as “spiders”. These are little snippets of code that search websites for new content. The more information that changes on your website, the more frequent the visits from these little spiders. The more visits to your site, whether by these spiders or by people searching on the web, the more popular your site becomes. The more popular your site becomes, the higher in the search engine rankings your site moves.

So now this leads to the next question, how do people find my site on the web? Well there are several things you can do to “get found”.

1. Link building. Thus involves adding a link to your site on many other sites that can drive traffic to your site. For example, if you are a graphic designer you would want to add your link to pages having to do with graphic design. People searching for designers may come across your link and visit. Another possibility us adding your link to a site that your town has up. This way if someones looking for a graphic designer locally they will find you.

Another way to gain SEO popularity is by adding you tube videos having to do with your profession to both your site and you tube. When adding videos you can use meta tags when uploading your video with possible search terms a viewer who would need your services would use. Meta tags are keywords that are relevant to your website. Those same meta tags should have been used when you built your website as well, for the same purpose.

A third option for SEO is to create a blog. Much in the same way that you tube was used for. By adding a blog, you can link it to your website and people searching for relevantvterms used in your blog will find your blog and also see the links to your website.

Remember the object is to be popular. Getting as many people to your site as possible will move your ranking up in search engines. Always remember to link link link.

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I encourage you all to participate in conversation on my blog.  If you just stumbled upon me, I’m happy to say that everything happens for a reason.  If you are just wanting to check me out, read About Me, it’s all there.  If you came here on purpose, chances are you too want to make this world a beautiful place, once piece of graphic design at a time.

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