Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for dating sites Part 1

This post is about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) with particular focus on how it can be applied to a dating site, both regular dating sites and adult dating sites. It deals with the basics, an intermediate to advance SEO practitioner will not find much information he/she does not already know, however there are some dating site specific SEO resources you may find useful at the end of this article.
If you are completely new to SEO and looking for ways to improve your site popularity in search engines, you will find loads of useful information to get your site ranking well. The article will attempt to define search engine optimisation the way the author understands it and then discuss the two main parts to SEO, the conclusion gives tips on how to carry our basic optimisation on both regular and adult dating sites.

To begin from the beginning, perhaps we should attempt to define what SEO is in the hope that the definition will point us to where we need to be.
SEO, or to call it its full name, Search Engine Optimisation is the name given to a process whereby the components of a website such as the graphics, the textual contents including how site layout is optimised to ensure Search Engines crawls and ranks the site highly for topic the site is about.

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