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SEO Basic Training
Steven Lee
1/30/07

Being the Best On The Search Engines Takes Confidence

SEO training takes time and patience as there is so much to know and learn about that at first seems pretty daunting. Before anyone wants to attempt SEO training be prepared for a long road as you assimilate the knowledge of website design, keyword analysis and density checks.

When doing SEO training students should be aware of what a website design requires to be effectively picked up by search engine spiders not the web design itself. SEO training makes the student aware of page layout, internal and backward linking strategy and the text that is required on the web page for effective Google SEO.

The student also learns the advantages and disadvantages of using images on web pages in SEO training. A benefit is that an image can look pretty and give your website a bit of color and attractiveness. The downside is that search engine spiders do not actually see anything - they do not see images. It will know the image is their but won"t know what it says on it. Therefore you have to use descriptive relevant ALT tags with images so the spider can see what the image describes.

Students learn the best suitable web page layout for a site to be properly crawled and indexed by search engine spiders. This includes the order of how the page should be made up and the use of the content on the page. SEO Training explains how the site should be properly structured for better search engine ranking. This includes the correctly positioned use of page headers, the correct use of paragraphs and minimal use of html tags such as <font> which make it hard for a spider to view the content on the page as it has a load of tags to read through as well as the text.

Another critical factor of search engine optimization we take into account in SEO Training is the use of a proper internal and external; backward linking strategy of the website.
An internal linking structure is how you can guide a search engine spider around the site easily and effectively. The most common form is the use of text navigation menus or links on each page of the website. These are extremely beneficial to your search engine promotion campaign, as a search engine spider can easily navigate around the site and access all the other pages on the site rather than just coming into the one page and being stuck on it and then leaving your website.

The external or backward linking also needs to be put in place or implemented as it can improve the way in which a search engine would position or rank the site.
The more relevant external links you have in place going to the relevant sections of your website the more beneficial it is to your website promotion as a whole. This is because search engine spiders can easily come to your site from various locations and visit the site and view the content more often.

We also cover how the content on web pages should be used in our SEO Training. It’s critically important to be grammatically correct and worded in a way which encourages interest from your audience. What we emphasize is the use of original content. This is content which is unique and relevant to the actual product or service and also content which is not duplicated over several web pages or websites.

This is just an elementary view of SEO Training. It is an ongoing process, as new techniques and strategies are being introduced virtually every day.


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