About 85% of the surfers on the Internet are using search engines to guide them to their destination. An SEO specialist primary job is to make your site search engine friendly. What does search engine friendly mean? Here is a good analogy. The search engine is like a person shopping for a particular kind of sock – let’s say heavy duty hiking socks. If your site is not optimized, your site is holding up a tiny sign with tiny letters saying simply socks. A competent SEO specialist will design your site so that when the search engine sees your site, your site will holding up a huge sign that says “HEAVY DUTY HIKING SOCKS RIGHT HERE” Not only will your site have a big sign, it will have a free limousine to take the search engine to the site.

Now we know web sites can’t actually hold up signs but a knowledgeable and ethical SEO specialist will know how to use current technology to transform your site to make it easily accessible to the search engines. To make that transformation an SEO specialist needs a variety of skills. An SEO specialist must be able to understand your business and your goals for the site. In other words an SEO specialist should be able to see your vision of the web site. Additionally an SEO specialist should make the process of search engine optimization understandable to you, so that you can assist them in making your site appealing to the search engines.

In more technical terms here are some of the things SEO specialists are involved with. Not only do they optimize your text but your titles, pictures, tags, links and descriptions throughout the pages of the whole website. SEO specialists evaluate website statistics such as visitation habits, popular pages, entry pages, came from stats and length of visit. They look at recent and long-term keyword analysis so they can continually improve web pages for search engine results.

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