Search engine optimization ideas

The principle of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO as it is popularly called, is part and parcel of the Internet. We have Seo consultants and experts who advise businesses on how to harness the power of the web with various advertising techniques for their products. The art of diverting an internet users 'clicks' on certain words to a specific website by using 'natural or algorithmic searches is called SEO.

Now to be an SEO specialist you need to have some serious nerdy qualifications. You must possess a deep interest to find out how a particular search engine works and how it arranges hierarchically the recommended websites based on a the search keyword. To do that, the expert must have working knowledge of scripts used by Google, Yahoo, MSN and other major search engines. You must also carefully follow trade news and the chatter on the 'blogosphere' to find out which company is collaborating with whom.

The biggies and even the small-time companies reportedly pay substantial amounts of money to the primary search engine providers to make certain that their products show up on the top ten in the ranking list of a search. This is based on the standard that people tend to surf through only through the top ten rankings of any search. Some call it 'unfair trade practices'. The label "Internet Gold Diggers" is sometimes used derisively to describe SEO consultants. Is such criticism warranted? Perhaps this looks to be a query that will go in circles, an open debate this is really.