SEO or search engine optimization is confusing especially for newbies trying to learn the system. Since the purpose of this blog is to aim at Newbies on SEO including me. For my visitors, what exactly is seo? My thought would be, search engine optimization is a science and process of understanding search engine behavior and for search engine to understand well you website for ranking on their engine. Simple with an objective to rank higher on a particular search term to gain traffic to your site.

So back to the title, what should a newbie should know on SEO? I will try list basic knowledge you should know that will be discussed further on the next post on this blog. So first, know the terms on seo like seo, traffic, search engines, sem, ppc, response codes, SERP, backlinks, on-page,  and other terms related to SEO. Secondly, try to use google.com, yahoo.com, msn.com, and ask.com for a sample keyword search and take a look at the results you get. Look how each results on the first 20 that comes up their respective title and the text search engine displays below the link called description. Try to go to the result link and check the sites. In your browser, you can see that there is a view menu, click view source of that page and you will see some information, like the title and description and also keywords they have placed on their site.

From there, you can have a grasp an how search engine see their respective site. Implement this on your site and check if search engine spiders are crawling your site. Make sure your site returns an status code 200 and returns 404 for pages that is not on your site. There are several websites you can check this server response.

Next thing, we can do as an exercise on the next post is to create a blog using blogger.com. So I want you to create a blog now on blogger with any niche you want and we will take it step by step. Happy week-end.