PUTTING SEARCH ENGINES TO WORK FOR YOU.

• All this information about search engines has one purpose — to show you how they work, so that you can put them to work for you. You’ll find various strategies for optimizing your web site so it appears high in search engine rankings when relevant searches are performed. But this requires that you know how to put search engines to work for you.
•  Search engine optimization (SEO) is essentially the science of designing your web site to maximize your search engine rankings. This means that all of the elements of your web site are created with the goal of obtaining high search engine rankings. 
• Those elements include:

1. Entry and exit pages
2.   Page titles
3. Site content
4. Graphics
5. Web site structure

• However, you also have to consider things like keywords, links, HTML, and meta tagging. Even after you have all the elements of your page optimized for search engine friendliness, there are other things to consider.

 For example:
You can have all the right design elements included in your web pages and still have a relatively low search engine ranking. Factors such as advertising campaigns and update frequencies also affect your SEO efforts.

• All of this means that you should understand that the concept of search engine optimization (SEO) is not based on any single element.
•  Instead, search engine optimization (SEO) is based on a vast number of elements and strategies. And it’s an ongoing process that doesn’t end once your web site is live.
• SEO is a living, breathing concept of maximizing the traffic that your web site generates, and because it is, that means that it’s a constantly moving target. If you’ve ever played a game of Whack-a-Mole, you can understand how difficult search engine optimization is to nail. In the game, a little mole pops up out of a hole. Your job is to whack the mole on the top of the head before it disappears back down the hole and appears in another.
• Search engine optimization (SEO) is much the same concept. Search engines are constantly changing, so the methods and strategies used to achieve high search engine rankings must also change.