Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of making improvements on and off your website in order to gain more exposure in search engine results, if you select transcript lines in this section. More visitors finding you for the right reasons means more. Before we begin, let’s understand the goals of the search engines themselves. Search engines are just trying to find and understand all the information out there on the internet and then deliver relevant and authoritative content that is useful to their users.
Let’s start talking about relevance.
When a user searches for Australian travel on the internet, search engines will analyze all the web pages they’ve ever visited and pick out the pages that they think are the most relevant to the topic. They use a lot of different factors, including how that content is written, how it’s implemented in code, and how other websites around the internet are linked to, thus making a determination based on all these results. This information is stuffed into a very big, complex, and very proprietary index. Then, in a fraction of a second, the search engine is able to rank and return all of those pages to the user. Search engines distinguish between content related to Australian travel and content that is relevant to other phrases like Australian resorts or beach getaways.
Search engines understand the connections between words and concepts. An example search query is dog crates. While a search engine knows that pages selling dog crates are relevant to a search query, it also knows that websites about pet carriers are very relevant too. It knows that a website promoting things like pet food or dog toys could be relevant to the search query. Search engines understand the connections between words and concepts. An example search query is dog crates. While a search engine knows that pages selling dog crates are relevant to a search query, it also knows that websites about pet carriers are very relevant too. It knows that a website promoting things like pet food or dog toys could be relevant to the search query.
Let’s start talking about authority.
Basically, this means that out there on the largely lawless World Wide Web, where anyone can post anything, can your content be trusted, so that the search engines would want to show it to their users? One way in which search engines determine authority is by looking at what other websites have to say about a piece of content. This can be measured through links pointing to that content around the web. You can think of links as a way to vote on the internet. “Hey, I trust your content enough that I’m willing to reference your page and even send my traffic to your site” is what a webpage linking to your website is like.
Search engines find and store their vote of trust when they crawl and index all the pages of the internet. It is important that we know that this isn’t just a popularity contest. The relevancy of a link is one of the things that search engines place emphasis on. A search engine is more likely to trust a link if it comes from a well-respected or industry-related site like an industry-leading blog or nonprofit or government agency involved in your field of work. If you were the owner of an Australian travel website, you might have links to travel review sites, local chambers of commerce, and things like local travel bureaus. All of that is relevant to what’s going on. It’s not going to be worth much if you get a link from a domain that has nothing to do with you and is next to a text that says, “I’ll link to anything you want for five bucks. You might think of the whole system as a weighted democracy, where some votes are more important than others. If you understand how important relevance and authority are to a search engine, you will be able to improve these factors, which will lead to better search engine exposure and more visits to your own content. The audio-visual experience is audio-visual.