SEO Toronto: What Is It?

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By Miguel Pancardo


SEO is an acronym for "Search Engine Optimization." Search engine optimization is sort of a loose, general term referring to a set of techniques for increasing the visibility of a Toronto-themed or Toronto-based website. Think of it as a form of internet marketing or advertising for websites. Poor, fair, or good search engine optimization can make or break the success of a Toronto website.

How does SEO Toronto work?

As the name implies, all the SEO Toronto techniques focus on a Toronto website's search engine ranking. Why, you may ask, are search engines so crucial?

The unpleasant truth is that most of humanity has absolutely no idea that your Toronto website even exists. How, then, are potential customers ever going to find and visit your site? Well, the same way most people find anything on the internet: through search engines like Google.

How Search Engines Work

Let's say that you're on the Internet, and you are looking for something. When you look for something, what do you do? Chances are that you type in some keyword phrases that are relevant to what you're looking for. So for example, if you're looking for a fishing pole, you might type in "fishing pole" and come up with a whole bunch of sites that sell fishing poles. It's the same with any search engine optimization.

Basically, when someone is looking for something, and you sell it, they need to be able to find you. That is, they need to be able to find you with particular keyword phrases relevant to what they want. If your website comes up high in search engine rankings, chances are, your prospective customer (Net surfer) is going to see it, click on it, and perhaps buy from you.

That's why you want your website to show up on search engine listings, so that potential customers can find you, visit your site, and potentially buy from you. However, it's not enough to get on search engine listing results. Search engines are very good at returning plenty of websites that will match the search term, but chances are most surfers are only going to look for results on the first or maybe second pages. If your website is ranked further down than that, chances are that no one's going to be able to see it, which effectively means it doesn't even exist as far as the Internet is concerned.

For example, if your website ranks as number 100 out of 170,000 results for a particular keyword search, that may seem good. Hey, you beat out 169,900 competitors, didn't you? Unfortunately, a ranking of 100 means that your website will appear on the tenth or eleventh page of keyword search results. The vast majority of web surfers will find what they're looking for on another website ranked higher than yours, and never get far enough down the list of search results to even see the link to your website.

What Does SEO Toronto Do?

The goal of all the various SEO strategies is to determine exactly how the "Big Three" search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing) rank websites in search result lists, and then tailoring your Toronto website to rank as high as possible in those lists. If you can get your website onto the first page of results, you'll see an increase in web traffic to your site. If you can get your website to be a the very top of the first results page, you'll see a dramatic increase in traffic.

Using SEO strategies to increase internet traffic (and sales) to your site involves specifically designing your entire website around specific keywords related to your product or service. This gives your website a high degree of relevancy to that keyword, and consequently moves it up the list on a search engine results page.

Remember, search engine optimization strategies are also commonly known, which means that competitors, too, are probably using them just as you are. Because Internet marketing is so competitive, if your traffic is still almost nonexistent with few sales, give a comprehensive SEO Toronto campaign a try. This could make the results much better.




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