Why is there so much talk about SEO's?

[Jerison]

I know what they are, but I see people talking about them on other sites all the time? What do y'all talk about?

 

[Jack~Rouse]

I know what they are, but I see people talking about them on other sites all the time? What do y'all talk about?

If you have to ask that quetion, then you don't understand what SEO is.

SEO is a simple but complex subject, which in itself sounds contradictory, and what I mean is that it is easy to do, but difficult to understand what does exactly work.
What a lot of people tell you is pure hypothesis, and educated guesswork, no-one is 100% sure how Googles algorithm's work, and no-one who works for Google will tell you, all you can do is glean information from different sources and put it all together like a jigsaw.

SEO is in a nutshell trying to understand Google, and then using that understanding to "cheat" your way up the rankings.

Google then spends a lot of money developing ways to stop you "cheating".

So it's a vicious circle.

SEO is all about :

Content ( original)
Backlinks ( links to your site from relevant sites to increase your rank)
Robots.txt ( telling Google where not to go, this makes your site more "search engine friendly")
Relevance ( content relevant to your niche)
Meta tags ( a system search engines use to pull information from your site, and then index it)
Anchor Text ( a way of formatting a URL, so that Search engines associate that word with your URL)
Keywords or Key Phrases ( Words or phrases that users may input into search engines to find sites in a certain niche)
Traffic (The amount of users clicking on your site, the deeper they go, the better it is)
alt tags ( An alt tag is the description of an image, that tells search engines what it is a picture of)

And probably 50 more things that I can't remember right now !

 

[Jerison]

I know what they are, but I see people talking about them on other sites all the time? What do y'all talk about?

If you have to ask that quetion, then you don't understand what SEO is.

SEO is a simple but complex subject, which in itself sounds contradictory, and what I mean is that it is easy to do, but difficult to understand what does exactly work.
What a lot of people tell you is pure hypothesis, and educated guesswork, no-one is 100% sure how Googles algorithm's work, and no-one who works for Google will tell you, all you can do is glean information from different sources and put it all together like a jigsaw.

SEO is in a nutshell trying to understand Google, and then using that understanding to "cheat" your way up the rankings.

Google then spends a lot of money developing ways to stop you "cheating".

So it's a vicious circle.

SEO is all about :

Content ( original)
Backlinks ( links to your site from relevant sites to increase your rank)
Robots.txt ( telling Google where not to go, this makes your site more "search engine friendly")
Relevance ( content relevant to your niche)
Meta tags ( a system search engines use to pull information from your site, and then index it)
Anchor Text ( a way of formatting a URL, so that Search engines associate that word with your URL)
Keywords or Key Phrases ( Words or phrases that users may input into search engines to find sites in a certain niche)
Traffic (The amount of users clicking on your site, the deeper they go, the better it is)
alt tags ( An alt tag is the description of an image, that tells search engines what it is a picture of)

And probably 50 more things that I can't remember right now !

Thanks mate. 🙂

 

[MrSackfist]

Because it affects how much traffic your site gets and your page rank on website search engines. It is very important to consider when contemplating to set-up a site never mind running a site

 

[RH-Calvin]

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a work that requires lot of time and technical efforts to achieve the desired results, depending on the size, niche of the website and customer expectations.

1 – Start with quality content
2 – Determine the keywords to target
3 – Title tags and Meta Description
4 – Analyze and correct
5 – Internal and external links
6 – Optimizing Your URL

Ref: SeoAddict.Org