What is SEO and how has it evolved over the years?

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Many business owners will hear the phrase "search engine optimization" (or SEO) here from friends in the business community or even the competition and may see it as a route to increasing sales, but what is SEO? Alternatively, a business owner may have tried SEO services in the past and found that they did not work as well as they hoped or did, but were no longer as effective - this article explains what SEO is and why what a `` new '' SEO works better than ever.

I worked on search engine optimization and website market ranking, even before it was called SEO. Here are the changes in SEO since the start of the new millennium and what to look for in the SEO services offered or provided by your SEO agency.

We look back at SEO over the years and explain what SEO is today and how to best use it for our website.

SEO in 2000

At the turn of the millennium, the "big" search engines most people used were Lycos and Excite. Of course, at that time, a very small percentage of the British population had access to the Internet and those who did had a slow "dial-up" system.

The websites were one or two pages with basic information to load quickly (in 20 seconds). SEO practices at the time were to `` hide '' as many keywords as possible on a page so that the website would be found for those searches without the page appearing spammy to them visitors.