If you’re new to making a living on the Internet, you’ve problem heard a lot of talk about SEO, or search engine optimization. A lot of what you’ve heard may sound confusing or overwhelming. Well, while this article in no way can possibly cover the entire sphere of SEO, it is the hopes of this author that it will at least give you a starting point so that this maze of information isn’t so totally out in another solar system. With a little bit of reading and maybe some luck, you’ll come away from this article with a clear head a little knowledge.

The first step in this process is that you have to understand that there is on page SEO and off page SEO. I’m going to give you examples of each so don’t worry. The point is, in order for SEO to be effective you must use both on page and off page methods. Leaving either one of them out can spell disaster in a big way.

Let’s start with on page SEO. On page SEO is where you actually add certain things to your web page in order to placate the search engines. One of these things is meta tags. Meta tags are pieces of HTML code that tell the search engines something about your page, such as the title, description and what keywords you’re targeting. This is very important to do in order to naturally get your pages up the ranks of the search engines.

Off page SEO is more related to things you do outside of your web page to also get that page up the search engine ranks. One of these is article marketing. This is the practice of submitting articles to directories while utilizing the resource box of your articles to include the link to your web page. The more links that are out there, the higher up the search engines you’ll go. This isn’t an overnight process and it does take a lot of work, but over time, with enough inbound links to your web page, you’ll see an improvement in your search engine standings.

The interesting thing is that there are really more things you can do with off page SEO than on page. There are only so many things you can do with a web page, such as adding meta tags and adding content to your site, which is always something search engines want to see. But with off page, the list of things to do is almost endless. Aside from article marketing there’s link exchanges, blogging, social bookmarking sites and the list goes on and on.

If you are going to optimize your site for the search engines, you are going to have to use a combination of SEO on page and off page strategies and use them often. Optimizing your site is an ongoing process that never ends.

Hey, if it was easy, we’d all be making a fortune on the Internet.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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