Learning SEO Basics

It’s always helpful to know a bit of search history while learning SEO.

Learning SEO involves observing and analyzing the nature of internet search and it’s progressive evolution. Ever learning. Ever changing. Ever growing. Such as we do as individuals.

That said, here’s some tidbits of the beginnings of internet masterpieces that we take advantage of daily and know very little about:

Firstly, what is the internet?

This is just a tiny tidbit of history for us newbies to chew on…

Implementation of search engine optimization began in the 90’s. It is still very new and constantly growing, changing, improving.

At first, SEO was less complicated. A URL was submitted and a spider would crawl the page, gathering links and extracting data.

How SEO Has Evolved Over The Years

In her review of a 7 year old workshop outline, SEO expert Jill Whalen of Search Engine Land discusses how the years have affected or NOT affected SEO and implementation.

Her review contains relevant comparisons of

• Design
• Keyphrases
• Body Text Copy
• Title Tag
• Meta Description
• Meta Keyword