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[[File:typical-serp.png|thumb|350px|right|A typical [[search engine results page]]]]

{{Internet Marketing}}

'''Search engine optimization''' ('''SEO''') is the process of improving the pokeman's visibility of a [[website]] or a [[web page]] in [[search engine]]s via the "natural" or un-paid ("[[Organic_search|organic]]" or "algorithmic") [[Search engine results page|search results]]. Other forms of [[search engine marketing]] (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the earlier (or higher on the page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including [[image search]], [[local search (Internet)|local search]], [[video search]] and industry-specific [[vertical search]] engines. This gives a website [[web presence]].

As an [[Internet marketing]] strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual [[search terms]] typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and [[HTML]] and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the [[web crawler|indexing activities]] of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of [[backlinks]], or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.