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SEO :
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web
page in a web search engine's unpaid resultsoften referred to as "natural", "organic", or "earned"
results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a
site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users;
these visitors can then be converted into customers.[1] SEO may target different kinds of search,
including image search, local search, video search, academic search,[2] news search, and industry-
specific vertical search engines.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for,
the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines and which search engines are
preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its
content, HTML, and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to
remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number
of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic. By May 2015, mobile search had surpassed
desktop search.[3] Google is developing and pushing mobile search as the future in all of its products.
In response, many brands are beginning to take a different approach to their internet strategie
Webmasters and content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as
the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all webmasters needed only to
submit the address of a page, or URL, to the various engines which would send a "spider" to "crawl"
that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to
be indexed.[5] The process involves a search engine spider downloading a page and storing it on the
search engine's own server. A second program, known as an indexer, extracts information about the
page, such as the words it contains, where they are located, and any weight for specific words, as
well as all links the page contains. All of this information is then placed into a scheduler for crawling
at a later date.
Site owners recognized the value of a high ranking and visibility in search engine results, creating an
opportunity for both white hat and black hat SEO practitioners. According to industry analyst Danny
Sullivan, the phrase "search engine optimization" probably came into use in 1997. Sullivan credits
Bruce Clay as one of the first people to popularize the term.[6] On May 2, 2007,[7] Jason Gambert
attempted to trademark the term SEO by convincing the Trademark Office in Arizona[8] that SEO is a
"process" involving manipulation of keywords and not a "marketing service."
Early versions of search algorithms relied on webmaster-provided information such as the
keyword meta tag or index files in engines like ALIWEB. Meta tags provide a guide to each page's
content. Using meta data to index pages was found to be less than reliable, however, because the
webmaster's choice of keywords in the meta tag could potentially be an inaccurate representation of
the site's actual content. Inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent data in meta tags could and did
cause pages to rank for irrelevant searches.[9][dubious discuss] Web content providers also manipulated
some attributes within the HTML source of a page in an attempt to rank well in search engines.[10]
By 1997, search engine designers recognized that webmasters were making efforts to rank well in
their search engine, and that some webmasters were even manipulating their rankings in search
results by stuffing pages with excessive or irrelevant keywords. Early search engines, such
as Altavista and Infoseek, adjusted their algorithms in an effort to prevent webmasters from
manipulating rankings.[11]
By relying so much on factors such as keyword density which were exclusively within a webmaster's
control, early search engines suffered from abuse and ranking manipulation. To provide better
results to their users, search engines had to adapt to ensure their results pages showed the most
relevant search results, rather than unrelated pages stuffed with numerous keywords by
unscrupulous webmasters. This meant moving away from heavy reliance on term density to a more
holistic process for scoring semantic signals.[12]Since the success and popularity of a search engine
is determined by its ability to produce the most relevant results to any given search, poor quality or
irrelevant search results could lead users to find other search sources. Search engines responded
by developing more complex ranking algorithms, taking into account additional factors that were
more difficult for webmasters to manipulate.
In 2005, an annual conference, AIRWeb, Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web was created
to bring together practitioners and researchers concerned with search engine optimization and
related topics.[13]
Companies that employ overly aggressive techniques can get their client websites banned from the
search results. In 2005, the Wall Street Journal reported on a company, Traffic Power, which
allegedly used high-risk techniques and failed to disclose those risks to its clients.[14] Wired magazine
reported that the same company sued blogger and SEO Aaron Wall for writing about the
ban.[15] Google's Matt Cutts later confirmed that Google did in fact ban Traffic Power and some of its
clients.[16]
Some search engines have also reached out to the SEO industry, and are frequent sponsors and
guests at SEO conferences, chats, and seminars. Major search engines provide information and
guidelines to help with site optimization.[17][18] Google has a Sitemaps program to help webmasters
learn if Google is having any problems indexing their website and also provides data on Google
traffic to the website.[19] Bing Webmaster Tools provides a way for webmasters to submit a sitemap
and web feeds, allows users to determine the crawl rate, and track the web pages index status.