Search Engine Optimization For Dummies
Chapter One
Surveying the Search Engine
Landscape
In This Chapter
* Discovering where people search
* Understanding the difference between search sites and search systems
* Distilling thousands of search sites down to four search systems
* Understanding how search engines work
* Gathering tools and basic knowledge
You've got a problem. You want people to visit your Web site; that's the
purpose, after all - to bring people to your site to buy your product, or
find out about your service, or hear about the cause you support, or for
whatever other purpose you've built the site. So you've decided you need to
get traffic from the search engines - not an unreasonable conclusion, as you
find out in this chapter. But there are so many search engines! You have the
obvious ones - Google, AOL, Yahoo!, and MSN - but you've probably also
heard of others: HotBot, Dogpile, Ask, Netscape, EarthLink - even
Amazon provides its A9 Web search box on many pages. There's also Lycos,
InfoSpace, Mamma. ... read full excerpt from Search Engine Optimization For Dummies® ebook