What is organic search?
Organic search is also referred to as "natural search". Search engines index pages based on content and relevancy. Unlike paid search organic search is free. Paid search results are the listings that you see on the top and sides of the page. The other results are organic search results.
What are Meta tags?
Meta tags are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide information about a Web page. Tags help search engines understand the contents of a site.
A simplified description of Meta tags...
For search engine optimization two of the most important Meta tags are the Title tag and Description tag. The Title tag describes the content of your page using popular search terms. The Description tag text is displayed in search results by search engines like Google and Yahoo when people do a search. The Description text should contain important search terms and should also entice searchers to click your link in the search results. Additional tags like image tags and header tags also are important for SEO.
Will Meta tags on my web pages enough for top results?
Many factors influence how search engines rank sites including Meta tags, inbound and outbound links, number of pages, relevance and quality of content, how long people stay on your site and the number of pages that they visit on your site.
However, using web tools to analyze search term popularity and selecting carefully chosen quality Meta tags are an important part of SEO. Creating sitemaps (XML and HTML) sitemaps and submitting your site to directories and search engines enhances a site's visibility on the web and is another important step for SEO.
What are Search Engine Spiders?
Search engines like Google and Yahoo send out search engine spiders to gather information about web sites. The spiders, also called search engine crawlers, are software programs that "crawl" the world wide web. The information gets indexed into the search engine's database to provide relevant search information to people when they search on the web.
