Before I learned more about SEO, I just thought about how to get higher ranking and traffic in google for business purpose only. A little knowledges of SEO techniques I have learned then brang some of my sites into top 10 google search engine result page for certain keywords. Actually, it’s not optimized well until my participation on SEO contest a few months ago. I really know and consider what’s another advantages of SEO friendly website then.
In my opinion, besides using SEO for business, we can use it for da’wah too. What’s da’wah? Let’s see the meaning of Qur’an surrah an-Nahl (The Bee) verse 125,
“Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance” (Qur’an 16:125)
“Invite (all) to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious” is a statement of da’wah basis. On internet field, use websites as media of da’wah nowadays give more benefits for they who has much times to interact with internet. Most people study Islam from books, websites, mass media or another third parties. Then internet is going to be the biggest tool to find informations. It’s fast, cheap, and easy to use. Da’wah is invite all to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching. By that means, we can use internet for da’wah.
Why does da’wah need SEO too? Let’s do a little observations around search engine field. Have you ever tried to search some keywords used for kindness and truth? For examples sites about Islam news (truly Islam, not wrong one), or about Palestine, maybe another keyword about something that usefull in our life. I’ve done the searching, and guess what? There are some sites which contain about wrong thought of Islam. What will it cause? People who use search engine as their tool to find a lot of informations will land at these sites. Say that maybe they know and understand the truly Islam, it doesn’t influence their thought much, but remember too that most of them maybe don’t understand the truly Islam and this causes a chance to influence their thought become wrong. Then they learn from bad thought of Islam and after that they can be wrong too. In fact, these are happened in our environment.
Wonder if we can optimize that kinds of site with SEO techniques, I think more good sites will appear on top 10 google position. With SEO, sites also can get high traffic to create online business for supporting da’wah. Most of money we get from da’wah site can be applied for da’wah cost too. So, my conclusion for this opinion is only one, “Da’wah need SEO to bring more people to the truth and kindness”.
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Add your commentis SEO halal?
and..what do you think about SEO in law, hospital, or medical area?
as a professional, they have some ethical rules due to massive promotion
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Hey your article is quite interesting and providing valuable information with regards to SEO even i do have similar kind of website which is giving valuable information on……
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salam kenal bos
saya usul bos bikin tulisan SEO dalam kajian syariah dan fiqih. belum ada yang bahas tuh. coba aja search
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Looks like this word can be next SEO competition:-)…,just my ideas;-)
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Sabar… sabar… Komentar pertama tu kayak debat ma adminnya
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Bismillahi Allahu Akbar
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Looks like some simple ideas but have great followers.Let’s take this for FIB journal programs next day.
He.he.he..me..,just an ordinary man with thousands idea:-D.But this was your idea Sis…;-)
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@dani, SEO is one of optimization technique, same with way of marketing in business. There are two fields in SEO, ethical and un-ethical technique. Of course we have to use ethical one, it’s halal, that’s a white hat SEO. While blackhat SEO is un-ethical one eventhough there is no word to say halal or not. Ethical isn’t same with halal. To my know, SEO technique doesn’t contain any haram things. Haram is if you get money from keywords such as p*rn*graph, gambling, and others like that.
SEO in law, hospital and medical area, have been used by most of marketer especially in West world. But in Indonesia, I see it’s not optimized yet. Maybe we have to use it too because technology is going faster and many people find informations about them too. In this case, I only talk about SEO and Da’wah basically. Even Law and medical area are included on kindness and truth too.
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@admin,
I’m nota moeslem.
Some SEOers try to shoot keywords, but many of their sites are not accessible and usable (on disable images: the same color of content and background, no visible submit button, etc).
And I’ve my opinion that SEO against the accessibility. Especially from the case of anchor texts. Anchor texts are usually a tricky (but great SEO) from the accessibility point of view.
FYI, in accessibility, the same link text on web pages should refer to the same web page.
Ya, I don’t have a data, maybe many users don’t care about it.
Even Ramaditya said that detik’s site was accessible enough.
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@dani, I only try to answer your question about halal. It doesn’t matter whether you’re moeslem or not. For me, I make friendship to all person, no matter what their background
Well, about SEO according to your opinion, I can’t say if it’s true or wrong. But actually, website and SEO is like knife. We can use knife to cut or even to hurt. It’s depend on our hand and hearth. Website has similar analogy like that. You can use website for accessibility and usablity or not, depend on your self. You can’t also say that site A is not usefull while perhaps other person consider that site A is usefull for him/her. It’s a relative case, isn’t it?
“SEO against the accessibility. Especially from the case of anchor texts. Anchor texts are usually a tricky (but great SEO) from the accessibility point of view”,
in fact it doesn’t. Like I said before, SEO is depend on how you use it. So let’s not see this one in common case, but please see this case by case. Maybe you find case that make you think like that, but really it’s not at all. Anchor text isn’t tricky, it’s used to sharpen the keyword (if you do it in right way). But your statement can be true when the anchor text is only used as fake, fo example: your site is about recipe, but you use a p*rn*graphy keyword to buzz your rank and traffic. It’s a fake, and I don’t agree with this.
“the same link text on web pages should refer to the same web page”
This is not a must you know. You can use it or not, it’s up to you
And about detik’s, back to my last comment. Another example, this site is about my thought. Some parties consider that this site is usefull, but some others don’t. Another example too, a gambling site isn’t usefull for me, but maybe for some people, it’s usefull. So, you can’t use your term generally for all case.
Once again, this is my opinion. Maybe I don’t get your real meaning about accessibility, it’s all because I’m not good in english hehe
. But I appreciate to people’s opinion. I hope we can find the best way to make our site more usefull, has great contents, more traffics, and very important is giving advantages for visitors 
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@admin,
nice evy..I’m not an evangelist in this topic
actually, for me, all of that items are the art of the web
it’d be useful depends on yours..
sorry for my poor english
move on, mbak evy
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@Gusti Dana, yep, that’s right. haha…you always can read my mind, and sometimes I read your mind too. Well, maybe it can be my first SEO contest? (laughing…coz I’m still not confident, still a nobody in SEO field, and very urgent…I have no money for the prize
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@ardi, gak pa pa mas Ardi, saya ga menganggap debat, saya anggap ini diskusi. Sebab dari komentar tersebut saya jadi tahu, ternyata masih banyak orang yang memandang SEO dari sudut yang berbeda, dan ini sangat bagus untuk kita jadikan bahan belajar bukan? Sebab darinya, kita bisa membahas SEO dengan lebih terbuka lagi. Gimana kompetisi kampanye damainya? sukses ya!
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@Pencerah, Allahu Akbar! amiin
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@dani, thank you Dani. For additional, SEO is the art and the science
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@shalimow.com, wah usul yang bagus tuh mas Shalim. Nanti kita buat yah, bantuin buat tambah-tambahnya hehe
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@admin, Kompetisinya alhamdulillah… saya belum keindex
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@Gusti Dana, but FIB isn’t only moslem community, it doesn’t match with keyword SEO and da’wah haha…but, FIB can hold SEO contest with another keyword like “friendship for blogger” maybe. I hope so.
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@ardi, gpp mas, sabar aja. mungkin google lagi dancing hehe
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@admin, Dancing kelamaan bikin gerah aja….
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