SEO the trick behind website design

I never did fully realize how it was that search engines work. An interesting note is that currently my dad works for a search engine department called Fast search. They specialize in searching for parts of a site within that particular site. However, this SEO that we are discussing is much different. This pertains to the larger search engines that search the web to find you the closest match for what you requested. These include the obvious big ones such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing however there are other search engines out there that are a little less remembered such as AskJeeves.

As far as both social networking and bookmarking are concerned, I thought that they article that Jeff assigned really addressed this well. The article discussed some issues that were very obvious when thinking about the issue while also addressing several more complicated ones that I certainly did not know about. An example of an area that I was familiar with was to create accurate page titles. This would help the person searching to find it easier as well as allow the search engine to locate your site easier. An example of something I was unfamiliar with was that of the description meta tag. I found this particularly very interesting and informative. When I was searching on Google, I would often see these snippets at the bottom, however I really did not understand what it was these were. Now I am beginning to see the whole picture much better.

http://online-social-networking.com/the-long-tail-and-social-media
This website discussed several different advantages that you get from combining your social networking sites with SEO. I found this to be an interesting concept that I would not have actually thought of. Now I better understand what was meant for the combination of the two features. Using the combo of the two really seemed to get your site much better recognition and also at a much faster rate.

http://www.deondesigns.ca/blog/top-social-bookmarking-sites/
This site lists out the top social bookmarking sites that are available online. I found this interesting as well because again, I was not very familiar with this concept. Scrolling through these sites I notice a few examples of sites that I am familiar with which include iLike, Google bookmarks, and Twitter. Surprisingly enough I am also not the most familiar with any of these sites either so I plan to look through a few of them to get a better grasp on these. Anyone have a brief summary of this concept that might clear it up for me?