May 1, 2010
Searching Is Not All About Your Company’s Home Page: Optimization Should Affect The Whole Domain
It was assumed by many that someone landing on a website would always enter via the home page. Because of the ways that search engines operate, an intending customer may land on your enterprise’s domain via a number of pages, any of which could have a high search engine positioning. This then is a good incentive to apply search engine positioning across all of your domain’s pages.
Part of applying search engine optimisation should be to analyse the site pages and determine which keywords to highlight and where. Search keywords ought to be connected with the page on your enterprise’s domain with the information most relevant to the intending consumer’s requirements. A visitor to your domain will have an enjoyable experience if he does not have to go trailing through several pages when the search engine result could have aimedalso possible for a natural search to visit your enterprise’s domain to land on a page that is unexpected, because the engines more often use the content of pages that they have indexed to influence the search result. This is another good reason for applying search optimization to each page of your domain and ensuring the content is good, using the keywords that are most relevant often enough to make the search engines notice but in a way that still reads properly. Including keywords too widely can cause problems with the search engines.
Another part of the search engine optimisation process is to improve awareness of your site through the creation of documentsacross the internet. These documents usually include references to specific pages on your enterprise’s domain anchored to the keywords you have decided to encourage. Again, those references do not have to be directed to the domain’s home page. The documents are disseminated to create content that add meaningful references to your enterprise’s domain and enhance the profile of your domain with the search engines.
Another common assumption appears to be that a search engine results listing will use the wording in the description metatag to describe the highlighted page. Now it looks as if this may not always be the case. The search engines may snippet from the content of the chosen page. This is another reason to use search optimization to be sure that the page content is meaningful with well placed keywords and easily crawled by the search engines.
The search engines may have dropped the reliance on the description metatag because some optimisers have used it unethically in the past by overloading a description with irrelevant keywords. However, it may be said that the engine’s own guidelines were vague enough to allow the practice. These days, the search engines use so many criteria to arrive at a search engine positioning that it is still sensible to supply a suitable metatag description just in case.
Once an intending customer has changed into a regular customer, he is probably going to arrive via the home page, but a new customer could land via any page that a search result could aim him. The home page of your enterprise’s domain may not be the one with the best search engine positioning. This is why you need to apply search optimization to the whole domain.
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