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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
 - Why is optimising your site so critical?
 - Outline
 - Similar principles for all engines
 - How search engines read web pages
 - Designing web pages for search engines
 - How you see a web page
 - How search engines see a web page
 - The importance of understanding HTML
 - HTML: hyper-text mark-up language
 - Web page display in your browser
 - The HTML content of the page
 - What search engines pick out
 - Important elements for the search engine
 - Starting out in search
 - Implications
 - The first tasks for search engine marketers
 - Search engine optimisation
 - How does your website perform?
 - First step - Google "info:"
 - How many pages of your site has Google read
 - How many websites link back to you
 - Finding out your market position today
 - Key steps in monitoring and evaluation
 - Understanding on-page factors
 - Barriers and spiders
 - Road blocks: Flash
 - Road blocks now opening up to search
 - Road blocks now more open to search
 - Design vs. indexing
 - Design trade-off
 - Making content readable by search engines
 - Must-know on-page factors
 - On-page factors: optimising content
 - Checking your own page content tags
 - Keywords and key phrases
 - How to choose keywords
 - Keywords example - burger guide
 - Issues to tackle when selecting keywords
 - Find out which keywords matter most
 - Important keywords - scuba diving example
 - Keywords development tools - Google example
 - Keywords development tools - MSN example
 - Checklist: on-page factors
 - Off-page factors
 - New challenge - your status in the web
 - What else do you need to consider
 - Checklist: off-page factors
 - Boosting discoverability
 - Link building strategies
 - The importance of link strategy to SEO success
 - Summary
 - Closing remarks
 
Topics Covered
- Why is optimizing your site to be read by the search engines so critical?
 - How search engines work
 - How to get listed
 - Factors determining position of a website in the listings
 - Can the spiders access your site?
 - Keyphrase research
 - On-page factors: writing optimized text
 - Off-page factors: link building and link equity
 - How to monitor your position
 
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Talk Citation
Meadows-Klue, D. (2009, September 30). How search engine optimization works [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved November 4, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/BIGZ4682.Export Citation (RIS)