One element of search marketing that has many people scratching their head in confusion is the Algorithms that actually determine what the rank of a page should be. These algorithms are proprietary in nature, and so few people outside the search engine companies have seen them in their entirety. Even if you were to see the algorithm, you’d have to be a math wizard to understand it. And that’s what makes figuring out the whole concept of optimizing for search engines so difficult.

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