For people who would like to learn about promoting websites on the internet, you will want to understand the term SEO. SEO stands for search engine optimization. SEO is the act of optimizing a website so that the search engines know where to index or place the site correctly in their search results pages.

Search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing must serve up the most relevant results to any given search if they expect people to use them. In order to do that they crawl and read the pages of every website that they are aware of on the Internet. Then they index what they see. Proper SEO helps search engine's do their job.

There are several aspects to good SEO. There are on-site and off-site factors that must be taken into consideration. On-site factors are things such as the title of the site (URL), page titles, internal links (links within the site itself), use of H1, H2, H3 tags, the bolding of important words, Alt tags on image, etc..

It's a great idea to incorporate all of your on-site factors when the website is being built. That way you'll have a good base to build on. A good website designer will include all the things that the search engines are looking for, as the site is designed and developed, but it is also possible to take an existing site and add any SEO factors that are missing.

Off-site factors include things such as links to your site from other sites (the higher the authority the better), anchor tags from other sites (the words that link to your site from other sites), links from video sites, topical relationship of sites that link to yours, etc. Off-site factors are also links to your site or blog from other blogs or comments on other blogs.

Off-site factors can come from other site owners linking to your site because they think the content would be of interest to their readers. It can also be self-generated by creating your own off site content like extra off-site blogs, Hub pages, Squidoo lenses, and Ezine articles.

On-site factors used to be the most important factors on a website. That is quickly becoming old-school because there are more and more websites competing for the first pages of the search engines. On-site factors are still very important to getting indexed correctly; especially for local or low competition keywords. But for now it seems they remain merely an important core of a good website.

With competition for the first 10 spots on Google getting stiffer and stiffer off-site factors have become more and more important. As a matter of fact it's impossible to compete in today's world at a national or global level without making sure that all of your off-site factors are being updated and added to on a regular basis.

To sum things up: For low competition keywords, especially where people are typing a location into their search, like "Chiropractor in Lake Worth Florida," on-site SEO may be all you need. But for national and global searches, or highly competitive search terms (which are the majority of sites on the web today) it's going to take more work and plenty of off-site SEO.

For more information about SEO and how it's done visit Action Website and SEO .

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"Joomla Websites in West Palm Beach" is now on the first page in Google search. Why is this significant? What's the big deal? The big deal is this: I did not have this spot a few days ago. I did not even mention Joomla on the Action Website and SEO site a few days ago. I decided to go after the keywords "Joomla Websites in West Palm Beach," and I did the basic necessary things to get that key word on Goggle, and a few days later there it was on the first page. If anyone doesn't believe in the power of proper SEO, there is the proof... again.

For a great Joomla CMS website in West Palm Beach, or to see your current site on the first page of Google, contact Randy at Action Website and SEO.

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Less than a week and already First Page for Website and SEO in West Palm Beach.

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It's only a couple of days since the new site has been put online, and already we're on the first page of Google in the organic (free) results for CMS websites in West Palm Beach, and the second page of Google in the organic results for content management websites in West Palm Beach. This is a very competitive industry, and I am having fun proving that a site built properly from the ground up will get quick, superior results in the search engines. Contact Action Website and SEO if you want your site to rank better on Google.

Our new website is basically ready for viewers. I just created and installed a sleeker looking banner, spell checked all the text I wrote over the last three days, and did some other house keeping. Along with that I created a sitemap and analytics and submitted it all to Google and Yahoo. The cool thing was that I received my first customer phone call on the new number even before all that was done, with only 3 days into the creation of the new site. Building a site that's optimized from the ground up will maximize free search engine results for sure.