I get asked a lot of SEO questions from work at home moms and small business clients. It’s time for me to do a series on SEO to get some of these questions answered! Many people ask me “Do you *do* SEO?”. My answer is simply “No”. There are a lot of things you can do to an existing site to help with SEO but we’ll get to that later. The simple answer of “No” is because good SEO on a web site really needs to start in the planning stages of your web design! I focus on creating websites that are SEO friendly right from the start!

Let’s start out with the basics! SEO? What’s that? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. When people are talking about SEO they are referring to search engines and how you are indexed. The optimization part comes into play when we talk about how you get your site prepared to be listed, how you manage your site to maintain listings and how to increase your ranking. You are optimizing your search engine experience. The next terms that comes up are spiders and robots. Spiders and robots are parts of the search engine software that actually scour the internet reading web sites and collecting the data. These spiders go out and read websites looking for information that it can bring back to the main database (search engine) to be indexed. We want to make it easy for the spiders to find data to bring back to the main database so we’ll start with that. Read More…

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