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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results—often referred to as "natural", "organic", or "earned" results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a website appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users; these visitors can then be converted into customers.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization</ref>
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results—often referred to as "natural", "organic", or "earned" results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a website appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users; these visitors can then be converted into customers.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization</ref>
== How to ethically improve SEO ==
According to Google, these specific strategies are a good place to start SEO:<ref>https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf</ref>
* Create unique, accurate page titles
* Make use of the "description" meta tag
* Improve the structure of your URLs
* Make your site easier to navigate
* Offer quality content and services
* Write better anchor text
* Optimize your use of images
* Use heading tags appropriately
* Make effective use of robots.txt
* Be aware of rel="nofollow" for links
* Notify Google of mobile sites
* Guide mobile users accurately
* Promote your website in the right way


== White hats and black hats ==  
== White hats and black hats ==  

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results—often referred to as "natural", "organic", or "earned" results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a website appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users; these visitors can then be converted into customers.[2]

White hats and black hats[edit]

In general terms:

  • when you see white hat you should think "ethical, legal, in line with terms of service"
  • when you see black hat you should think "unethical, illegal, not in line with terms of service".
  • when you see grey hat you should think "skirting along the boundary of white hat and black hat".


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White hat search engine optimization[edit]

Black hat search engine optimization[edit]

Standards[edit]

  • Discuss the use of white hat and black hat search engine optimization.

See Also[edit]

This is the guide from google discussing SEO

References[edit]