{"id":6820,"date":"2023-05-04T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crazydomains.com\/learn\/?p=6463"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:57:49","slug":"seo-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazydomains.in\/learn\/seo-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crazy Easy Guide to SEO Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search engines touch every aspect of our lives. From helping us find great local restaurants to showing today\u2019s weather forecast, <\/span>it\u2019s hard to imagine a world without them.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With its influence, imagine how search engines can <\/span>boost your website traffic<\/span><\/a> \u2014 <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> send customers your way.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s where your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) steps in. But where do you even begin?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll talk about all that in this lesson \u2014 and more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why do you need SEO?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Think about the last time you needed answers. Did you flip through Yellow Pages, or turn to Google?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want people to find your business online, you\u2019d want to appear on top of search engine results pages, or SERPs. This includes being featured in rich snippets.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Because the number one result on Google gets <\/span>27.6% of clicks<\/span><\/a> and 10x more likely to get clicked than the tenth spot. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As such, the goal of SEO is to get your website \u2014 and website pages \u2014 on that coveted first page.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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How does SEO work?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Search engines work through three important functions: <\/span>crawl<\/span><\/b>, <\/span>index<\/span><\/b>, and <\/span>rank<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every search engine has bots (a.k.a. spiders) that \u201ccrawl\u201d the web for new and updated content. These spiders catalogue web pages, along with key information, into an index.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When someone searches for something, the search engine displays the most relevant results from its index. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But, how do search engines choose which results to show first?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Search engines use a complex algorithm that ranks each web page based on hundreds of varying factors.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No one is completely sure what these factors are.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But through trial and error, search engine experts have found that these three factors lead to higher search rankings:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n