Are You Searching Me?

Can you believe it, we're at the end of the road in Multimedia Media Production Skills. One more class left!

This could potentially be my last blog post for this blog, but on a positive note, I might actually start my own blog. I feel like this class has inspired me to do so. Now that I have these blogging skills, it's a good idea to put them into good use.

So our last topic of discussion will be SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO is the process of making your web page easy to find through search engines. It not only increases the traffic for your web page, but also your archives are benefitted. It actually gives more value to your archives, and SEO allows people to further search specifically into your stories.

What does the SEO "spider" look for? Well, it looks for keywords, titles, and search friendly text. However, there are bumps and walls that make your web page difficult to find. Walls are blockages. They don't allow access to a webpage without a certain login and/or password. Speed bumps are just poorly structured web pages that are so removed from the actual site you visited.

Here are the factors to improving search:

• Link value
• Diversity of links - linking different sources
• Keywords/headlines/titles

So why is all of this important? Well, it's actually pretty to understand why. If you create a website, you want as many as you can get to visit the site right? Well, SEO helps increase the traffic to your webpage because through the use of keywords, it allows your webpage to come up in searches conducted through search engines such as Google.

Think about it. Would you rather have a couple people reading your blog? OR Would you want to be like me and have as many people possible read your blog? Frankly, it's a bit more exciting.