What is SEO and How to Start it from Scratch? – Day by Day SEO Guide

How Search Engine Works
How Search Engine Works Infographic

Today we are going to introduce SEO tips and Guide series in which anyone can learn basic and advanced SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This is the first part of our day by day or you can say step by step tips for on page, off page and technical SEO.

Many of us already aware what is Search Engine Optimization(SEO). There are many websites or articles from where you can learn SEO but our motive is to provide simple and easy to understand SEO tips so that anyone can learn SEO in few days. Just be in touch for next chapters of this SEO tutorial.

Day 1 of Day to Day SEO Guide and Tips

What is Search Engine?

Before you know what is SEO, you need to know what is Search Engine and why all of us use search engines. A search engine is a software system that is developed to search the information on web. The core search engine model is based on two things.

1. Provide most relevant results related to user’s query avilable on web.
2. Provide fastest results for users.

There are many search engines exists on web right now but the main search engines which have largest search market share are

1. Google
2. Bing
3. Yahoo

Other Serach engines are AOL, Lycos, Blekko, Yandex, DuckDuckGo etc.

How Search Engine Works?

Search engines gathers all information available on world wide web and it store that information in their data centers. Search engine collects this information with the help of their programs also know as Search engine crawlers or spiders. When any search engine crawl any webpage or website and collects all information and store in its database, it is known as Search Engine Index. These crawlers find all information connected with internet and networks for pulic documents. All websites and webpages which are avilable to read for all users are public documents on web as defined by world wide web consortium. To Understand it better find infographic How Search Engine works.

How Search Engine Works
How Search Engine Works Infographic

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

Search engine optimization is the process of making your website and web pages avilable for search engine indexing. So whenever any search engine user search any keyword related to your website, then search engine may display your website in their search result pages. Search engine optimization is necessory becuase every user clicks the top results available for their search queries. Users who searches search engines for any kind of information, products or services would like to see the relevant results for what they are searching.

Search engine optimization includes many processes and guidelines as defined by search engines. Search engine optimization can be divided in two main parts

Next Chapter in SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

1. On Page Search Engine Optimization  (Day – 2)
2. Off Page Search Engine Optimization (Day – 3)