The PageRank Algorithm In 1996, two Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, developed the PageRank algorithm as part of a research project for a new kind of search engine. The concept is quite simple: the algorithm calculates the importance of web pages based on the number of links pointing to them. The university filed […]
SEO, or search engine optimization, in its broadest sense, is the process of increasing a website’s visibility and deploying techniques that increase traffic to the site, therefore making it rank higher in search engine results. Within the realm of SEO, however, there are two additional camps. These consist of black hat and white hat SEO. […]
However, the process of maximizing clicks to a website does not necessarily mean getting bogged down in research about various keywords or designing complex spreadsheets that contain information about search volume. In truth, some of the best approaches for SEO involve ignoring the need to focus as heavily on the research about the exact word […]
When people first hear the term Search Engine Optimization, they usually imagine something technical with code, algorithms, and people trying to outsmart Google like its chess. Because of that, many beginners misunderstand SEO before they ever actually use it. The easiest way to understand SEO is by defining what it is not.First, SEO is not […]