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Search Engine Optimization is a process that involves the following: 

• Choosing highly targeted keyword phrases that are related to your site and your target audience.
• Fine tuning the content on your website along with your code to correlate with your keyword phrases.
• Establishing links to your site from high power relevant sources related to your keyword phrases (i.e. If I sell widget, I want to have other sites that have a high rank link back to be.  They could be blogs or forums related to widgets).
• Having a sitemap file and a robot file on your website to give out the pertinent information to the major search engines. 

The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results and to deter spam pages from clogging those results. A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine. New sites need not be “submitted” to search engines to be listed. A simple link from a well established site will get the search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It can take a few days to even weeks from the referring of a link from such an established site for all the main search engine spiders to commence visiting and indexing the new site.

If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues.

Search engine marketing and promotion companies, will look at the plan for your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep your site traffic flow and your search engine ranking high. Normally your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan right away so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time.