Why do you need SEO? Basic of SEO

[Jackie]

You’ve got a problem. You want people to visit your Web site; that’s the purpose, after all, to bring people to your site to buy your products, or learn about them, or hear about the cause you support, or for whatever other purpose you’ve built the site. So you’ve decided you need to get traffic from the search engines — not an unreasonable conclusion. But there are so many search engines! There are the obvious ones, the Googles, AOLs, Yahoo!s, and MSNs of the world, but you’ve probably also heard of others — HotBot, Dogpile, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, Netscape, EarthLink, LookSmart . . . even Amazon provides a Web search on almost every page. There’s Lycos and InfoSpace, Teoma and WiseNut, Mamma.com, and Web- Crawler. To top it all off, you’ve seen advertising asserting that for only $49.95 (or $19.95, or $99.95, or whatever sum seems to make sense to the advertiser), you too can have your Web site listed in hundreds, nay, thousands of search engines. You may have even used some of these services, only to discover that the flood of traffic you were promised turns up missing.

[Manny]

Precisely, SEO is needed in order to rank your pages. Most likely, searchers would click on the first page of the search results. You don't want your pages to be displayed on 1,532,908 search result. That's where SEO comes in. But how do we get good traffics exactly? Any contribution on this Jackie?

[Charles]

Huh, tough question you've got there, Manny. If you're asking on how do you get good traffics, it's like asking on how do you get rich a million bucks in one day? Both have equally almost impossible to achieve in one day. Tagetting good traffics take months even years. Joining chat rooms, social networks, directory listings, email campaigns may be a good start to realize this. Just my two cents worth though!