History of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Topic Contents Toggle Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - in another term Search Engine Optimization History of Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - in another term Search Engine Optimization is a process that affects the visibility of a website or web page “naturally” that is not paid in the search results on search engines and this is called (“Organic Search”) Organic search, as it helps attract a larger number of visitors coming through the first search results.

SEO may target different types of searches, including image searches, local searches, video searches, academic searches, and news searches. As an internet marketing strategy, SEO looks at how search engines work, someone's search, and the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines and which search engine is preferred by its target audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and associated HTML coding to increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to indexing activities in search engines.

Promoting the site by increasing its internal links, or external links to your site, is another SEO tactic. SEO can also refer to a “search engine optimizer,” those who provide this service on a paid basis.

History of search engine optimization: Website owners and content providers began optimizing websites for search engines in the mid-1990s. In the beginning, all website owners had to do was submit the address of the page, that is, the URL, to the various engines that would send the “spider” to “crawl” that page, extract links to other pages, and return the information it found to be indexed. The process of search engine spiders involves downloading the page and storing it on its own search engine server, where a second program, known as an indexer, takes various snippets of information about the page, such as specific words related to the topic and where these words fall, and also takes care of the weight of the words in question, and all the links on the page, which are placed in a tab to be crawled at a later time.

Website owners began to recognize the value of having their sites rank high and clearly in search engine results, which led to the existence of what is called “white hat SEO,” which is a metaphor for the correct practices of website owners, and “black hat SEO,” which is a type of fraud on search engines to gain a better ranking, which is what has been combated through continuous updates by Google’s “Panda” and “Penguin” algorithms. According to analyst Danny Sullivan, the phrase “search engine optimization” – “search engine optimization” probably came into actual use in 1997.

It is also mentioned that the first document on search engine optimization was previously issued 

John Audette

His company, which was named “Marketing and Multimedia Group,” was established in August, 1997. By relying too much on factors such as keyword density, early search engines suffered from abuse and ranking manipulation. To provide better results to their users, search engines had to find a way to ensure that the most relevant search results appear to the user, instead of showing pages that are unrelated to the request and stuffed with numerous keywords by unscrupulous website owners who are looking to gain visitors by any means.

The success and popularity of a search engine is determined by its ability to show results relevant to any given search. Search engines developed more complex ranking algorithms to ensure these good results, taking into account additional factors that were more difficult for website owners to manipulate. Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin

They developed what is called “Backrub”, which is a type of algorithm used to analyze a large number of pages according to many factors that are difficult to manipulate and also factors that depend on external links entering the site. Okay

Brin and Co-founder of the search site Google in 1998. At that time, Google was keen to gain user loyalty through simple design  

These sites adhere to quality standards, which require working not to burden the site with matters outside its main topic and keeping its page within the scope of the service provided. Search engines relied on off-page factors (such as page rank and hyperlink analysis), as well as on-page factors (such as word frequency, meta tags, titles, links, and site structure) to enable Google to avoid manipulating search results. Although “Page-rank” was the most difficult to achieve and achieve good results with, nevertheless, the website owners who relied on (black hat) methods focused on exchanging, buying, selling, and links, often on a large scale. And also methods called link farms, creating thousands of websites for the sole purpose of creating unwanted links.

(Later, Google developed some algorithms to combat attempts to buy and sell links and combat all irregular linking methods to links leaving your site.) By 2004, the search engine Google had incorporated a wide range of undisclosed factors into the ranking algorithms it launched from that year and the promise of disclosure came to limit the impact of manipulation of search results.

In June 2007, the New York Times reported, according to journalist Saul Hansel, that Google had used more than 200 different signals to rank search results. Leading search engines, Google

Bing, and Yahoo, do not disclose the algorithms they use to rank search pages.

Some of the top SEOs have studied different approaches to search engine optimization, and shared their personal opinions. Patents that relate to search engines can provide some information that may lead to a better understanding of search engine optimization methods. Between the years from 2005 - until this year, Google is still fighting to show the best search results to the user and is always launching updates that will limit the effects of this manipulation.

With this post, which I will complete and publish on Wikipedia, I wanted to explain to beginners in the world of the web what search engine optimization is and what is the start date for search engine optimization. I hope I have succeeded in that, and the topic is open to your requests regarding points that may need further clarification. Topics that may interest you: What are the manual procedures in Google “Manual site blocking” Archiving image sites in Google - best practices What is rel= nofollow and how is it added to links What is the “Bounce Rate” and how does it affect SEO The 10 most important steps to ensure your site is archived in Google What is SEO Co-citation and what it means for your site Prepare your site for the “Knowledge Graph”

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