The task of optimizing a website for search engine visibility is a job that requires tremendous skill and patience to the team that is obliged to do it. For one thing, search engine optimization is placed in the context of extreme competition by millions and millions of websites dedicated to different topics in the internet. The search engine’s function is to try to temporally organize these websites and discriminate the irrelevant to the relevant. The task of a search engine optimizer is, therefore, to help the search engine to know that the website is indeed relevant, legitimate, and contains credible information. How do they do it? It all depends on the algorithm used by the search engine. The most popular algorithm used by many search engine optimizers is the Google search algorithm. Google is the largest and the most popular search engine used in the internet. Its algorithm is arguably the most useful as well as its ability to discriminate between useless and useful websites has been tried and tested over the years of its existence as a simple, minimalist html page.
It is not true, however, that most search engine optimization occurs only with respect to the Google algorithm. Some websites and companies also consider the algorithms used by Yahoo or Bing, being the second and third most popular search engines in competition with Google. But still the reality is that Google has the dictatorial power in the market of search engines, therefore the whole industry is dependent on the existence of Google as a powerful tool to look for information here and there in the internet. One of the most distinctive features of the Google algorithm is the monitoring of backlinks to the site in question. It works with the irrefutable fact that legitimate websites are often linked with other websites especially social networks where its popularity is usually dictated. The number of backlinks to a site is not enough. Keywords function to determine if the website is, indeed, relevant. However overuse of keywords may result to excessive repetition of the same word in the site’s contents, therefore arousing the suspicion of the whole system.
It is very important, therefore, for the team to be able to come up with a strategy that is natural but at the same time fulfilling the main objectives of an SEO. Writers must work together with search engine optimizers so that their aim of making a website more accessible to the general population of the internet will be reached. All in all, search engine optimization is just another way of advertising that should be spent upon, or else the mob of the internet shall take over and channel your website to sad obscurity.


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