{"id":18769,"date":"2020-11-18T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nzie.ac.nz\/?p=18769"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T02:37:20","slug":"blog-what-is-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nzie.ac.nz\/blog-what-is-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SEO?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Did you know? Approximately 5.6 billion searches are made on Google! And this isn\u2019t taking into consideration other search engines. That\u2019s a lot of searches!<\/p>
You may be wondering, well, how can your website show up on the first page of Google or as a top result when someone searches? The answer is simple: Through the use of SEO<\/a> which also stands for Search Engine Optimisation.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t In other words, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of optimising your online content (e.g., websites) so that a search engine like\u00a0Google<\/a> or Bing<\/a> likes to show it as a top result for searches for a particular keyword.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> For instance, let\u2019s say you wrote an article on a website about making banana bread. You want the search engine (Google) to show your article as the top result to anyone who searches for the phrase \u201cbanana bread.\u201d By using SEO on your article, it will encourage Google to show your article as one of the top results whenever someone searches for that keyword \u201cbanana bread.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t On-Site SEO can help improve\u00a0the usability and credibility of your online content.<\/p> SEO is essential for businesses. An\u00a0ethical SEO approach<\/b>\u00a0can drive more website or blog traffic, increase the number of customers, generate more company sales, and fulfil business objectives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Interested in learning more about SEO? Why don\u2019t you study the Diploma in Digital Marketing<\/a>\u00a0with the New Zealand Institute of Education (NZIE).<\/a> It\u2019s a Level 7 NZQA accredited course that teaches you all about SEO and how you can start your career towards becoming an SEO Specialist.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>Definition:\u00a0SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is a marketing strategy to increase the rankings and visibility of online content on a search engine in the unpaid section, a.k.a organic listings.\u00a0\n<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
What are main components to SEO?<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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SEO can be conducted in two manners either at an ethical standard or an unethical standard:\n<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t