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:
- Technical SEO: making sure search engines can find and read your pages.
- On-page SEO: the words and tags on each page, like the title and headings.
- Content SEO: writing pages that answer what people are searching for.
- Off-page SEO: other websites that link to your site, and what that says about you.
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.