When it comes to marketing these days, it is often the case that those who want to sell their products or services are able to choose between outbound and inbound marketing methods. While the outbound marketing is often what most people are already accustomed to, it is not so effective any longer. This is why people are turning to inbound marketing methods that take advantage of the advancements achieved in terms of information technology, in this case the internet. However, in order to be able to succeed in marketing their products or services using inbound marketing methods, there is one thing known as SEO that they should understand pretty well.
With a good understanding of SEO, business executives will be able to increase the rank of their products or services on the most widely used search engines such as Google and Yahoo. With a higher ranking, chances are their potential customers will find them quite easily. This is due to the nature of internet users that tend to go to search engines first whenever they want to find out about something particular they have in mind.
When it comes to SEO, there is one thing that plays a very major role. It is known as meta-data. For business executives that are more familiar with the outbound marketing method, they may not have even heard of this at all.
Well, meta-data is in fact information regarding a particular website on the internet. However, the information meta-data provides is not included as the main content of the website itself. The main content of a website is of course the content which is clearly visible to anyone who comes across the website. But Google meta-data provides very useful information with regards to a particular website to other software such as the crawler of a search engine, the browser and so forth. In most cases, this information is kept apart from the clearly visible content people can normally see.
With regards to the meta-data, there are three main things to which business executives should pay attention. To start it off, there is the title of the meta-data. This is also the part that plays the key role in terms of meta-data. It is also arguable that this is the part that plays the key role in every single website. The reason is because the title often says what a website is about. The title is also what browsers will use when a website is saved by someone onto their computer. Also, when compared to the other parts of a website, the title is the most interesting part for most of the search engines available today.
The second part of meta-data that is also very important is the description part. This is what usually summarizes what a particular website is about. In order to use this description part successfully, business executives should include important terms with regards to their website here. This is because there are not a few of those search engines in existence today that try to match this description part with the keywords people enter in their search box.
Now, last but not least, another part that also plays a very important role in terms of SEO and meta-data is the keyword part. This is the part that plays the key role in describing the content of a particular website. As a matter of fact, in earlier times, this was the only part that search engines would take into consideration. However, due to the abusive use by people in this keyword part over time, search engines now have to take into account a lot of other things with regards to a particular website.
Ashley Feaster
You said it very well..