Ohio SEO Firm Discusses History of SEO

By Wendy Suto

As long as the Internet has been around, it has remained a mystery to the mainstream public how Web sites are listed at the top of search engine results. There are many theories of how search engines and search engine optimization (SEO) initially began.

The 1990s
Alan Emtage, a student at the University of McGill, created the first true “search” program in 1990 called Archie (still in use today), to archive Web documents. The following year, Gopher started at the University of Minnesota, and this is when the concept of search engines began. In 1993, Matthew Gray created the World Wide Web Wanderer, the earliest known search engine robot that assists with ranking Web sites. But search engines as we use them today were born in 1994. In that same year, Galaxy, Lycos and Yahoo! were all started, two of which are still widely popular search engines today.

Read more on the history of search engine optimization written by Cleveland SEO specialist Wendy Suto here.

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Feb. 20, 2006
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Wendy Suto is president of Search Circus, an Ohio SEO and Web site marketing firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. She specializes in the latest optimization, link building and article submission tactics. Before becoming an Ohio SEO consultant, Wendy was a computer instructor for a wide range of businesses, teaching software and security programs to children and adults alike. Businesses included Gateway Computers, Stautzenberger College and a Catholic school in Toledo, Ohio. As a certified Ohio SEO consultant, she will be starting SEO training classes this spring at local adult education facilities.
wendy@searchcircus.com