What is SEO and how does it work?

SEO is the procedure of making your site more appealing to search engines. It's also a job of the title. SEO helps us increase our visibility on the internet.

If you've got a site using an automated web hosting platform such as Blogger, WordPress or run a small-sized business and don't have time to put on your site it's a good idea to understand the fundamentals of managing your site's presence on search engines. A little understanding will go a long way to help people locate your website.

What is the process behind Google Search work?

Google is an automatic search engine which makes use of crawlers or programs to browse the web continuously, searching for sites that we can add the index. There is no need to put your site up online. In reality, all websites that appear in our results are discovered and automatically added when we scan the internet.

How long will it take to see an any changes in the search results?

Each change you make takes some time to reflect at Google's end. Some changes may be in effect within a couple of hours, while others may take a few months. In general, you'll would like to wait several weeks before determining whether the changes you made had a positive impact on Google Search results. Remember that not every change made to your website can be noticed on search results. If you aren't satisfied with the results, and your business strategy allows you to try again, make the changes to check if they have made an impact.

Help Google discover your content

Before you do anything in this section, make sure to check whether Google has already discovered your site's content. Try searching Google to find your website using the search operator on the site. If you get results that point to your website, you're on the index. For instance, a search for site:www.xyz.com yields the results. If you're not seeing your site, take a look at these technical specifications to be sure there's nothing that can block your website from being displayed on Google Search, and then return here.

Google mostly finds pages via hyperlinks to other pages it previously visited. Most often this is other websites linking to your page. Other websites linking to you is a natural process with time. However, you can also make it easier for people to find your site through promoting your website.

Verify that Google is able to view your website in the same way that users do

When Google is crawling a webpage and it is expected to view the webpage in the same way users do. To do this to happen, Google must be capable of accessing the same resources that are accessible to the user's browser. If your website is hiding the essential components that comprise your site (like CSS and JavaScript), Google might not be capable of understanding your site's pages and, consequently, they may not appear in results for searches or rank highly for the keywords you're trying to rank.

If your website's pages contain different information based on the physical location of the user Make sure you're happy with the data that Google detects from its crawler's position which is typically the US.

Do you not want to be a part of Search results from Google?

It may be essential for you to remove your website as a whole or portions of it from showing up in results for searches. For instance, you may not want to see your blog posts about your embarrassing new makeup to be displayed in results of a search. Google offers a variety of ways to let you opt-out of indexing and crawling your web pages. If you're looking to block certain directories, files or even your entire website completely from Google Search, check out our article on how to stop the content from showing up in results of searches.