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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Should I be using SEO?

I rarely use SEO. Maybe that's the problem why there aren't more visitors to this blog. What is SEO? From my limited understanding, I believe it means using words and terms in your writing that are popular and frequently used when internet folk are searching for information online. Maybe if I start using SEO, which stands for "Search Engine Optimization" I'll draw much more traffic to this page. SEO is a tool that many, if not, most writers and webmasters use.

Hmmm... I wonder if I just used the letters SEO, a lot more in my articles, that people would find this blog. The trick of course, when using SEO, is not to let your readers think you are using specific words just to draw attention. That's why I would never consider just typing SEO, SEO, SEO, SEO, SEO, over and over again, because, as you can see, this would be obvious to even the most uninformed internet user.

To sum it up, I think writers who consistently use SEO have a much higher chance of finding readers, than people like myself, who rarely use the SEO method.

To understand a little bit more about using SEO, read the following information from a Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

Oh, and if anybody is wondering how many times I've used the term SEO in this blog post, the answer is 15 times. Count them for yourself if you don't believe me. As you can see, you probably didn't realize that I was using the letters SEO just to get you to visit me. Sorry that doesn't seem ethical does it? Oh and that's 16 times I've used SEO. I mean 17. BTW, I didn't count the SEO in the title so if I count that one, plus the one in this sentence that would make 19. I can't believe I used SEO 20 times in this post. Whew!

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