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Why does every website that comes on the online arena clamor to get search engine optimized? The main reason being to attract a lot of website traffic to their respective websites so that they can get more business generated. Therefore getting the website identified, crawled, indexed and placed in the top ranks of the major search engine results is the aim of every business that has an existence online.

In order to get their pages moved up in the rankings for their chosen keywords, a few sites stuff their pages with these keywords in the hope that the search engines will pick up on it and rank them higher. This is however, not considered to be ethical practice and if it is picked up on by the search engines, they will penalise the site by removing it completely from the search results.

When web designers or SEO operatives use techniques that are ethical and rightful in the eyes of the search engine, this is known as using “white hat” techniques, whereas the other techniques that are not so ethical and rightful are known as “black hat” techniques. Using white hat techniques and using them well will mean that it will just be a matter of time and patience before your site gets to the top, and where black hat techniques can seem to work well in the short term, they can be disastrous in the long term.

SEO is constantly changing. The major and minor search engines are forever making changes to their algorithm i.e. the way they decide upon the quality of a site, and so it is very important for all webmasters to understand that SEO is not simply a one-off solution, it is an on-going process.

Search engine optimization operatives and webmasters will have to know what techniques the search engines are using to read and rank sites in order to incorporate what the search engines want to see into their own sites so as to be identified and ranked well.

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