Much like any new field you may venture into, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can seem overwhelming. There are lots of new SEO terms that you will need to learn and get familiar with.

If you do not have an experienced hand to guide you through the learning process, you may never fully grasp the concept of SEO. This SEO guide is intended to introduce you to your website SEO.

Also, you will find an easy to follow 5-step guide for optimizing your website for search engines. Let's set the ball rolling with a look into search engines and Google in particular.

How Google Works

Search engines are designed mainly for crawling the web, indexing web content, and returning the same as the results of search queries.

Of all the search engines, Google currently has the largest market share of the search market with 73% (according to net market share). Google is able to maintain this share by delivering quality search results and the sheer size of its database.

If your goal is to gain web traffic from search engines, then your main focus should be on optimizing for Google search. From this point onwards we will cover the 5 steps to follow for optimizing your website or blog for Google.