As an Internet marketer, I often find it amazing that people use search engines several times a day without the knowledge that the results are constantly being evaluated and ranked by their quality. The results, they just... happen.

Those .25 seconds it takes for Google to show you something useful rely on years of data collection, quality control, and extremely hard work from the creators of the resulting websites. Search engine optimization is the task of understanding that process and applying it to the content you create I've created this SEO tutorial with two goals: one, to give you an understanding of that process, and two, to give you ways to improve the way your website appears in the search results. Keep reading to get started with this online SEO tutorial for beginners!