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Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a methodology for helping websites to improve search engine rankings.
Most search engines return results based on relevance to a set of input keywords, or a query, provided by a client (typically a user visiting a search engine's website). Ranking well in any given search for a popular keyword can mean more traffic for a website, which translates into pageviews, comments and most importantly, sales.
Most SEO questions are off-topic
Questions must relate to programming to be on-topic. This means you must have a specific programming problem you are trying to resolve.
On-topic examples include:
- Using a URL rewrite to generate an SEO-friendly URL structure (i.e. .htaccess and mod-rewrite)
- Code to generate a robots.txt or xml sitemap dynamically
Off-topic examples include:
- Will using a specific programming technique harm my rankings in search engines?
Most SEO questions fall into the category of how to get better rankings or what tactics can be employed to improve robots crawling a site. These and other general SEO questions that are not specifically about programming should be asked on the Pro Webmasters Stack Exchange site. The questions should include the SEO tag. See this discussion on Meta Stack Overflow for details.
WordPress-related SEO questions should be tagged as wordpress or wordpress-plugin. However, generic SEO questions with regards to WordPress belong on WordPress.
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