SEO: What And Why?
SEO is the commonly used acronym for ‘search engine optimisation,’ which is, as the name might give away, the process of optimising your website to increase its rankings in the search engines for the search terms relating to your products, services or website. But why would anyone bother?
Search engines use what we call spiders or crawlers to sour the web and return all the information that will then be displayed in the search engines according to what people are searching for. Optimising your website basically means implementing minor things within the page that indicate to the bots what your topic matter is and what keywords might be relevant to you. It’s critical not to let this hinder the human user experience of the site though.
There’s a good reason that people would invest in search engine optimisation, as we steadily become a society full of cyber shoppers. We simply love the Internet. We can get anything there, from clothing, to food, to car insurance and a whole host of other things as well. We certainly take advantage of it, too.
In fact, in 2009 just in the UK, consumers amassed a total online shopping spend of 38 billion, predicted by Forrester Research to rise to 56 billion by 2014. That’s a huge online spend, especially when you consider the fact that the UK was in the grip of a recession from which it did not officially emerge until the end of the year.
As the Internet becomes ever more impossible to ignore, businesses are switching on to the fact that simply having a website will not suffice as an Internet marketing strategy. Given the fact that so many millions of us shop online and that a high proportion of such searches for products and services start with a search engine, SEO has become an effective means of enhancing your site’s visibility to the consumers specifically seeking out your products.
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