Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website by using targeted keywords in the webpage content and metatags; title, description and keywords. * Simple Website Tuneups takes Search Engine Optimization (SEO) seriously and are constantly keeping up on the continous changes that the search engine are making so our clients can have the best seo service we can offer. This service is included for all websites that we design for our clients and is available for existing websites owners that are looking to improve their standings with the search engines. If you are interested in having us help you with optimizing your website, please contact us to review your website. Search Engine Visibility is Key: Getting indexed The leading search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!, use crawlers to find pages for their algorithmic search results. Pages that are linked from other search engine indexed pages do not need to be submitted because they are found automatically. Search engine crawlers may look at a number of different factors when crawling a site. Not every page is indexed by the search engines. Distance of pages from the root directory of a site may also be a factor in whether or not pages get crawled. That is why SEO is so important to any website today.

Optimization includes:

Meta tags: To truly optimize your website is to take your content and make sure that it is rich in keywords related to your website and to correlate them with your meta tags for each main web page. The search engines will see the correlation between the two which will improve your placement with them. Meta Tags include; Title, Description and Keywords.

Website Content: As mentioned above, whenever content is added to a website, it needs to be rich in relevant content and keywords, while staying in context of the subject of the website and that specific webpage.

Website Layout: When optimizing a website, we also look at the overall layout of your website. If it is disorganized and poorly mapped, it can have a negative impact with the search engines and the potential client visiting your site. From our analysis of your website if we feel it is necessary we would recommend making changes to your layout.

XML Sitemap: Once we have completed the search engine optimization of your website, we will add an xml sitemap for google and other search engines.

Sitemaps are like a guide for the search engines. Tells them where your pages are located so they can easily find them to spider.

*Please note: SEO is never a guarantee for good organic search engine placement but in most cases it is significant to how well you show up with them.