What Is SEO, Its Types and Techniques?


What is SEO?

SEO refers to Search Engine Optimization that is the action of making your website SEO friendly by optimizing web pages of your website. It also helps you to get the a lot traffic search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) and improves the visibility of your website.  It has different types and techniques.

white hat SEO refers to the usage of optimization strategies, techniques and tactics that focus on a human audience opposed to search engines and completely follows search engine rules and policies.

SEO Techniques:

There are mainly three techniques of Search Engine Optimization:

SEO techniques are classified into two broad categories:

§   White Hat SEO - Techniques that search engines recommend as part of a good design.

§   Black Hat SEO - Techniques that search engines do not approve and attempt to minimize the effect of. These techniques are also known as spamdexing.

§  Grey Hat SEO:  Additionally there is  gray hat SEO,  where the optimizer utilizes  a number of  unpleasant  strategies. In this technique of SEO the webmaster obtain  as well as change links with another websites.

 White Hat SEO: 

An SEO tactic is considered as White Hat if it has the following features:

ü   It conforms to the search engine's guidelines.

§   It does not involve in any deception.

§   It ensures that the content a search engine indexes, and subsequently ranks, is the same content a user will see.

§   It ensures that a web page content should have been created for the users and not just for the search engines.

§   It ensures good quality of the web pages.

§   It ensures availability of useful content on the web pages.

Always follow a White Hat SEO tactic and do not try to fool your site visitors. Be honest and you will definitely get something more.



·         Black Hat or Spamdexing


An SEO tactic, is considered as Black Hat or Spamdexing if it has the following features:

Ø   Attempting ranking improvements that are disapproved by the search engines and/or involve deception.

§   Redirecting users from a page that is built for search engines to one that is more human friendly.

§   Redirecting users to a page that was different from the page the search engine ranked.

§   Serving one version of a page to search engine spiders/bots and another version to human visitors. This is called Cloaking SEO tactic.

§   Using hidden or invisible text or with the page background color, using a tiny font size or hiding them within the HTML code such as "no frame" sections.

§   Repeating keywords in the meta tags, and using keywords that are unrelated to the website content. This is called meta tag stuffing.

§   Calculated placement of keywords within a page to raise the keyword count, variety, and density of the page. This is called keyword stuffing.

§   Creating low-quality web pages that contain very little content but are instead stuffed with very similar keywords and phrases. These pages are called Doorway or Gateway Pages.

§   Mirror websites by hosting multiple websites - all with conceptually similar content but using different URLs.

§   Creating a rogue copy of a popular website which shows contents similar to the original to a web crawler, but redirects web surfers to unrelated or malicious websites. This is called page hijacking.

Always stay away from any of the above Black Hat tactics to improve the rank of your site. Search engines are smart enough to identify all the above properties of your site and ultimately you are not going to get anything.


Gray Hat SEO

There is also, the so called gray hat SEO, where the optimizer uses some unnatural tactics. In this type of SEO the webmaster may buy or exchange links with other websites.


Though search engines do not accept this type of optimization, it may help you get good rankings. If you choose to do grey hat optimization, be aware that this may not work for you website for a long period of time. You need to act as neat as possible, so that search engines do not get suspicions to your account.

Source: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/seo/what-is-seo.htm



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