Web Design Blog: What is SEO?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a process that helps search engines find and rank your website. What rank you are determines where your website shows up when someone searches for a topic.  The more traffic that your site gets the higher your ranking will be.  Search engines  use things called spiders that crawl over the internet and record things like how many times a  link on a page is clicked, the quality of the links, the content of the site, and if the site is trustworthy. Google said that they have over 200 things that they use to calculate your rank. Once all these things are calculated it is put into an algorithm. This algorithm determines how high your rank is and where it will it be placed in the list with all of the other pages.