What is SEO?

日本語で読む (Read in Japanese)

SEO means Search Engine Optimization. It is the work of helping people find your website when they search on Google or another search engine.

This site is a small test site. It has a few simple pages that explain SEO in easy words. We use this site to try things out and see what happens.

Four parts of SEO

People usually talk about SEO in four parts:

After you publish

SEO does not stop once a page is live. Measuring and improving covers the tools you use to check results and decide what to change.

Start here

First, read how search engines work. It explains the three steps a search engine takes before your page can show up in results.