SEO Basics: What is SEO and Why is it Important? [SEO Course by Ahrefs]



In this video, we’ll go over the basics of SEO and cover things like what it is, why it’s important, and how it works.
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This is the first lesson of the SEO course by Ahrefs. In this course, you’ll learn the SEO basics, with a heavy focus on execution. The course is broken down into 4 modules plus this video, which is more of an introduction to the course as well as an SEO 101. So, this lesson is all about SEO basics. We’ll talk about what search engine optimization is, why it’s important and how Google works. SEO stands for search engine optimization. And it’s the process of optimizing content to be discovered through a search engine’s organic search results. If you’re completely new to SEO, then it’s easiest to think of search engines as libraries. But instead of storing books, they store copies of websites and web pages. So when you search for a query, the search engine will then look through all pages in its index and try to return the most relevant results. And SEO helps demonstrate to search engines that your page is that result. Now, you might be thinking: why should I focus on SEO when there are so many other marketing mediums? Well, there are 3 major things that attract marketers to search engine optimization and in my opinion, these 3 things make SEO the best traffic source. You’ll find out what they are in the video. To do SEO well, you’ll need to learn how Google works. And you’ll learn all about the concepts of crawling, indexation and its ranking algorithm in the video. Timestamps: 1:37 What is SEO
3:40 How Google works
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