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Search engine optimization (SEO)

The practice of improving a site's visibility in organic (unpaid) search results by aligning content, structure, and signals with what search engines reward.

Definition

In long form.

SEO breaks into three loose disciplines: technical (crawl, index, render, performance, schema), on-page (titles, headings, content quality, internal linking), and off-page (backlinks, brand mentions, citations). The job isn't to game the algorithm — it's to publish genuinely useful content that's structured so search engines can understand and serve it. Algorithms change constantly; content quality, site speed, and clear structure remain durable.

In context

Most SMB sites underperform on SEO not because of mysterious algorithm changes but because of fundamentals: missing meta descriptions, slow LCP, broken internal links, no schema markup, and no Google Business Profile.

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