Search Engine Optimization Education

Whether you have your own website or just freelance write for other websites and blogs you must learn all about SEO. Search Engine College offers online classes in SEO(search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) where you choose either their own certification or self-study. I don't believe that they are nationally accredited though.

Backlinks Are As Easy As 1, 2, 3

Websites need to get backlinks in order for the search engines to recognize their existence. Backlinks are links coming from other websites that point to your site or the site you are writing for. Getting backlinks can be time consuming, but in the end will pay off. If you want to get backlinks try doing the following:

1. Articles - submitting articles to directories provides backlinks & as the writer you become known as an expert as well
2. Forums - for every post you make you will have a link attached
   
3. Blogs - make intelligent comments on blogs of similar content
   

Content Writer As A Job

Have you ever thought about being a writer? If you have you first must decide what kind of writer you would like to become. Having come to this blog I would assume that you may be interested in being a content writer. A content writer works online writing articles, blog posts and other types of material. There is a little more to being a web content writer than that though. They not only have to be creative, but they also must be knowledgeable in SEO (search engine optimization). Being focused on SEO just means that their goal is to convey information so that it gets a top page rank spot with the search engines. The following are ways that a content writer may accomplish SEO:

• Original content - plagiarism causes loss of page rank
  
• Keyword density- without keywords there would be no SEO
• Backlinks - links pointing to the site the content writer is writing for(more links, better PR)