Memes are little games, challenges or other often copied activities that take place on the Internet.

Examples include the "five things I'm grateful for" meme where you list five things you are grateful for and then "tag" five other people to do the same. But most of the truly useful memes start by accident or are at least a lot less forced.

Like, for example, the one I am going to show you now.


Take for example the SEO Challenge Number One meme with the open challenge to make a page and rate first and highest for the phrase "SEO Challenge Number One".

SEO is a short hand for Search Engine Optimization and in the "good guy" sense of the word simply refers to those little things you can do to rate well. Things such as using descriptive titles, using the keyword in the body text when you talk about it (use the word and not the word "it") and other small but effective things (like getting linked to or adding links to).

Of course, it is easy to stray into the world of the "Black Hat" and try to cheat the system but sooner or later the system will find you out and you will loose out.

This particular meme stands out as a useful challenge because in order to come first you must pay attention to the entire site. You will want to make sure all your links work, that you have a site map,that you have set your titles to show the page title correctly... and so on.

It forces you to "think SEO" if only for a little while. But that little while could have a long lasting impact on your site.


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