What is Search Engine Marketing?

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is the whole range of marketing and advertising techniques a website will use to improve their ranking within search engines. This is not one practice or set of steps, but can include several different marketing techniques. The most important element of any website’s SEM is effective SEO. Other techniques within […]

What are Keywords?

Keywords are the words and phrases that describe a page. Keywords are also the words that search engine users to find the pages they want. Search engines, in essence, retrieve information related to the user’s keyword based on the keywords in web pages. If a user types the words “digital camera” into a search engine, […]

Learning SEO Basics

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a set of practices that a website owner uses to help improve a site’s visibility and effectiveness in search engines. A website must cater to search engines, for the most part, because a vast majority of people use search engines to find what they’re looking for. If […]

Relevancy and Usability

These elements are generally most important to the human visitor to a page, but benefitting the user is a great way to gain more visitors and more rank. Being constantly accessible and easy to understand can only benefit a site through loyalty from current customers and increased numbers of new customers. The relevancy of a […]

Titles, Headings, and Page Descriptions

Aside from the text of an article, keywords should be used within page titles, headings, and page descriptions as well. This serves two purposes. First, when users see these words within the titles and headings, which they will see before they begin to read any content, they know that this page will give them the […]