SEO Isn't Just Metatags

What do you think of when you hear or read the acronym SEO? Is it good metatags? Rich content and links? Or maybe Pay Per Clicks (PPCs)? Well if you put all those together in your website you would have what I might have said was good SEO.

That was until I joined the First Scribe Team. I knew when I accepted my position with them I would have the opportunity to learn and grow as a web developer but never thought I would see so many new ideas and techniques in the realm of SEO.

While some of it is a "Why didn't I think of that?" type of scenario, there a lot of technical, behind the scenes, ways to improve websites that I didn't know about.

Savvy Visitors

As the Internet matures and users become more sophisticated, sites that used to perform well just don't rank as high as they used to. It is far more than looking pretty and giving users enough information to buy something from you. It doesn't mean anything unless the user can find your site.

Let's be honest here for a moment -- When was the last time you searched for something and you went past the first page of results from your favorite search engine? Once or twice, maybe. If you didn't find what you were looking for on the first page, you probably went back to your search terms and modified them.

SEO Works

I have looked at traffic reports from some sites that this team has taken over and improved from an SEO standpoint. The results are remarkable. I can say I have never seen such a drastic improvement in traffic in such a short period of time. All due to the SEO techniques used here at First Scribe.

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