SEO: What And Why? | Geek Blast

Search Engine Optimisation, more often referred to as SEO, is simply the practice of enhancing certain elements of your website specifically with the intention of increasing rankings within Google and other major search engines for the keywords and search terms relating t your website’s content. But why is it such a big deal?

Search engines use what we call spiders or crawlers to sour the web and return all the information that will then be displayed in the search engines according to what people are searching for. Optimising your website basically means implementing minor things within the page that indicate to the bots what your topic matter is and what keywords might be relevant to you. It’s critical not to let this hinder the human user experience of the site though.

We love the Internet. Over recent years the number of people using it to make purchases or enquire about potential purchases has risen rapidly. We can buy anything online from car insurance, to food and clothing!

Businesses invest a lot of time, effort and money into search engine optimisation and there’s a good reason. In 2009 in the UK alone, 38 billion was spent online, this in spite of a very serious recession from which we only officially emerged towards the end of that year. Forrester Research expect this figure to rise to 26 in 2014.

As the Internet becomes ever more impossible to ignore, businesses are switching on to the fact that simply having a website will not suffice as an Internet marketing strategy. Given the fact that so many millions of us shop online and that a high proportion of such searches for products and services start with a search engine, SEO has become an effective means of enhancing your site’s visibility to the consumers specifically seeking out your products.

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