The document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) concepts, including:
1) The importance of SEO for driving online and offline sales.
2) How search engines work and are composed of web crawlers and databases to index web pages.
3) Key factors search engines use to evaluate and rank pages, such as relevance, importance, links, and content.
4) Techniques for improving rankings, like optimizing titles, meta tags, and adding relevant and quality backlinks.
6. Necessity of SEO… Online advertising drives $6 offline (in stores) for every $1 spent online. Search marketing has a greater impact on in-store sales lift than display advertising—three times greater, in fact 74% of respondents used search engines to find local business information versus 65% who turned to print Yellow Pages, 50% who used Internet Yellow Pages, and 44% who used traditional newspapers. 86% surveyed said they have used the Internet to find a local business, a rise from the 70% figure reported the year before. 80% reported researching a product or service online, then making that purchase offline from a local business
7. “ Iprospect and Jupiter” Research… 62% of search engine users click on a search result within the first page of results, and 90% within the first three pages. 41% of search engine users who continue their search when not finding what they seek report changing their search term and/or search engine if they do not find what they’re looking for on the first page of results; 88% report doing so after three pages. 36% of users agree that “seeing a company listed among the top results on a search engine makes me think that the company is a top one within its field.”
21. “ Crawlers” or “Spiders” in Web… The link structure of the Web serves to bind together all of the pages that were made public as a result of someone linking to them. Through links, search engines’ automated robots, called crawlers or spiders can reach the many billions of interconnected documents.
