It is the search engines that ultimately get your website to the notice of the potential clients. When a topic is typed for search, practically directly, the search engine will separate through the millions of pages it has indexed about and present you with ones that match your subject. The look for matches is also ranked, so that the most related ones come primary.
Remember that a potential client will most likely simply look at the opening 2-3 listings in the search results. So it does matter where your website come out in the search engine position.
Further, they all use one of the top 6-7 search engines and these search engines attract more visitors to websites than anything else. So finally it all depends on which search engines the customers use and how they rank your site.
It is the Keywords that play an important role than any expensive online or offline advertising of your website.
It is found by surveys that a when customers want to find a website for information or to buy a product or service, they find their site in one of the following ways:
The first option is they find their site through a search engine.
Secondly they find their site by clicking on a link from another website or page that relates to the topic in which they are interested.
Occasionally, they find a site by hearing about it from a friend or reading in an article.
Thus it's obvious the most popular way to find a site, by search engine, represents more than 90 of the people looking for a website will use methods other than search engines.
All search engines employ a ranking algorithm and one of the main rules in a ranking algorithm is to check the location and frequency of keywords on a web page. Don't forget that algorithms also give weightage to link population (number of web pages linking to your site).
When performed by a qualified, experienced search engine optimization consultant, your site for high search engine rankings really does work, unless you have a lot of money and can afford to pay the expert. With better knowledge of search engines and how they work, you can also do it on your own.
To Your Success,
Terence D Nason
CEO and Founder of 1StopMoney4U.com
Author of SEO Simply Laid Down and How To Set Your Mind Free
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