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I am a freelance web site designer located in Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to providing web site design that conforms to the latest web design standards and web accessibility guidelines, I also provide search engine optimization. Search engine Optimization or SEO is what makes the difference between a great looking site and a great looking site that can be found when visitors search for specific keyword phrases. Without search engine optimization you need to drive traffic to your site using other methods such as advertising, word of mouth, pay-per-click campaigns, or direct mail. These methods are almost always more time consuming, considerably more costly and less effective. The bottom line is search engine optimization is the most effective way to get people to your site.
Even the best-looking web site won't generate much business for you if it can't be found by search engines. Search engine optimization is the practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. Optimizing a web site for search engines requires looking at many unique elements of the sites code and content. By writing or rewriting a sites content to be rich in selected keywords and phrases, search engine optimization allows your site to rank higher in a highly competitive search market.
The majority of web traffic is driven by the major commercial search engines – Google, Yahoo!, MSN & Ask.com (although AOL gets nearly 10% of searches, their engine is powered by Google's results). If search engines cannot find your site, your content cannot be put into their databases and you miss out on the incredible opportunities available to web sites provided via search engines. Whether your site provides content, services, products, or information, search engines are a primary method of navigation for almost all Internet users.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the science of improving both quantity and quality of the traffic to a web site. This is done by following many different techniques across the web site, including the writing or re-writing of content, proper coding of pages, and structurally organizing and naming the elements of your page. Search engine optimization takes a given list of keyword phrases and optimizes the sites content so that pages from the site will be more likely to be found when a user searches for those keyword phrases.
Search queries, the words that users type into the search box that contain terms and phrases best suited to your site, carry extraordinary value. Experience has shown that search engine traffic can make (or break) an organization's success. Targeted visitors to a web site can provide publicity, revenue, and exposure like no other. Investing in SEO, whether through time or finances, can have an exceptional rate of return.
Search engines are always working towards improving their technology to crawl the web more deeply and return increasingly relevant results to users. However, there is and will always be a limit to how search engines can operate. Whereas the right moves can net you thousands of visitors and attention, the wrong moves can hide or bury your site deep in the search results where visibility is minimal. In addition to making content available to search engines, SEO can also help boost rankings so that content that has been found will be placed where searchers will more readily see it. The online environment is becoming increasingly competitive, and those companies who perform SEO will have a decided advantage in visitors and customers.
