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1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.
2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.
3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.
4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.
5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.
6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.
7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.
8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.
8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.
9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.
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Jan
31
Just don’t focus on the home page, keywords and titles.
The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can’t keep your customer on your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the information at a different page. By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details.
Understanding Your Target Customer
If you design a website you think will attract clients, but you don’t really know who your customers are and what they want to buy, it is unlikely you make much money. Website business is an extension or replacement for a standard storefront. You can send email to your existing clients and ask them to complete a survey or even while they are browsing on your website. Ask them about their choices. Why do they like your products? Do you discount prices or offer coupons? Are your prices consistently lower than others? Is your shipping price cheaper? Do you respond faster to client questions? Are your product descriptions better? Your return policies and guarantees better than your competitor’s? To know your customer you can check credit card records or ask your customer to complete a simple contact form with name, address, age, gender, etc. when they purchase a product.
Does your website give enough contact information?
When you sell from a website, your customer can buy your products 24 hrs a day and also your customers may be from other states that are thousands of miles away. Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number and an email address that reaches you. People may need to contact you about sales, general information or technical problems on your site. Also have your email forwarded to another email address if you do not check your website mailbox often. When customer wants to buy online provide enough options like credit card, PayPal or other online payment service.
Some other tips:
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25 Ways to Build Trust (and Sales!) With Customer Success Stories
5 Simple Steps to Small Business Success on the Internet!
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Jan
23
There are many ways to promote your website and one of the most efficient ways is to use search engines. Search engines are the first stop for most people trying to find information, services, and products online. Because of this, it is essential that your website appears quickly in search results.
The Internet contains numerous search engines, some of which offer what is known as “paid inclusion.” This means that you pay the specific search engine an annual fee for your web page to be included in their index.
Of course, every search engine already has an automated program commonly called a “spider” that indexes all the web pages it locates online, and it does this for free. So whether you pay or not, your web page will eventually be indexed by all Internet search engines, as long as the spider can follow a link to your page. The major issue is, then, how quickly your page is indexed.
A search engine that offers a paid URL inclusion uses an extra spider that is programmed to index the particular pages that have been paid for. The difference between the spider that indexes pages for free and the spider that indexes only pages for a fee is speed. If you have paid for inclusion, the additional search engine spider will index your page immediately.
The debate over paid URL inclusion centers around the annual fee. Since the regular spider of these search engines would eventually get around to indexing your web page anyway, why is a renewal fee necessary? The fee is necessary to keep your pages in the search engine’s index. If you go the route of paid inclusion, you should be aware that at the end of the pay period, on some search engines, your page will be removed from their index for a certain amount of time.
It’s easy to get confused about whether you would benefit from paid inclusion since the spider of any search engine will eventually index your page without the additional cost. There are both advantages and disadvantages to paid URL inclusion, and it is only by weighing your pros and cons that you will be able to decide whether to spring for the extra cash or not.
The advantages are obvious: rapid inclusion and rapid re-indexing. Paid inclusion means that your pages will be indexed quickly and added to search results in a very short time after you have paid the fee. The time difference between when the regular spider will index your pages and when the paid spider will is a matter of months. The spider for paid inclusion usually indexes your pages in a day or two. Be aware that if you have no incoming links to your pages, the regular spider will never locate them at all.
Additionally, paid inclusion spiders will go back to your pages often, sometimes even daily. The advantage of this is that you can update your pages constantly to improve the ranking in which they appear in search engines, and the paid URL inclusion spider will show that result in a matter of days.
First and foremost, the disadvantage is the cost. For a ten page website, the costs of paid URL inclusion range from $170 for Fast/Lycos to $600 for Altavista, and you have to pay each engine their annual fee. How relevant the cost factor is will depend on your company.
Another, and perhaps more important, disadvantage is the limited reach of paid URL inclusions. The largest search engines, Google, Yahoo, and AOL, do not offer paid URL inclusion. That means that the search engines you choose to pay an inclusion fee will amount to a small fraction of the traffic to your site on a daily basis.
Google usually updates its index every month, and there is no way you can speed up this process. You will have to wait for the Google spider to index your new pages no matter how many other search engines you have paid to update their index daily. Be aware that it is only after Google updates their index that your pages will show up in Google, Yahoo, or AOL results.
One way to figure out whether paid URL inclusion is a good deal for your company is to consider some common factors. First, find out if search engines have already indexed your pages. To do this, you may have to enter a number of different keywords, but the quickest way to find out is to enter your URL address in quotes. If your pages appear when you enter the URL address but do not appear when you enter keywords, using paid inclusion will not be beneficial. This is because your pages have already been indexed and ranked by the regular spider. If this is the case, your money would be better spent by updating your pages to improve your ranking in search results. Once you accomplish this, you can then consider using paid inclusion if you want to speed up the time it will take for the regular spider to revisit your pages.
The most important factor in deciding whether to use paid URL inclusion is to decide if it’s a good investment. To figure this out, you have to look at the overall picture: what kind of product or service are you selling and how much traffic are you dependent on to see a profit?
If your company sells an inexpensive product that requires a large volume of traffic to your site, paid inclusion may not be the best investment for you; the biggest search engines do not offer it, and they are the engines that will bring you the majority of hits. On the other hand, if you have a business that offers an expensive service or product and requires a certain quality of traffic to your site, a paid URL inclusion is most likely an excellent investment.
Another factor is whether or not your pages are updated frequently. If the content changes on a daily or weekly basis, paid inclusion will insure that your new pages are indexed often and quickly. The new content is indexed by the paid spider and then appears when new relevant keywords are entered in the search engines. Using paid inclusion in this case will guarantee that your pages are being indexed in a timely manner.
You should also base your decision on whether or not your pages are dynamically generated. These types of pages are often difficult for regular spiders to locate and index. Paying to include the most important pages of a dynamically generated website will insure that the paid spider will index them.
Sometimes a regular spider will drop pages from its search engine, although these pages usually reappear in a few months. There are a number of reasons why this can happen, but by using paid URL inclusion, you will avoid the possibility. Paid URL inclusion guarantees that your pages are indexed, and if they are inadvertently dropped, the search engine will be on the lookout to locate them immediately.
As you can see, there are numerous factors to consider when it comes to paid URL inclusion. It can be a valuable investment depending on your situation. Evaluate your business needs and your website to determine if paid URL inclusion is a wise investment for your business goals.
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Jan
20
Advertising your services or products on the Internet is
both extremely effective and extremely competitive. There
are several ways to go about attracting traffic to your
website; Pay-Per-Click is one of the options you can choose
from, along with developing an SEO, or search engine
optimization campaign. Both pay-per-click and SEO are
targeted to get your website placed as close to the top of
search engine results as possible. One of the differences
is that it takes minutes to set up a pay-per-click campaign
versus months for a good SEO campaign.
Pay-Per-Click is a simple type of paid advertising that
most search engines, including some of the largest ones,
now offer. It requires a bid for a “per-click” basis, which
translates to your company paying the bid amount every time
the search engine directs a visitor to your site. There is
the added bonus that when a per-click site sends your
website traffic, your site often appears in the results of
other prevalent search engines.
As with all marketing campaigns, there are advantages and
disadvantages. If you understand the process and monitor
your pay-per-click campaign frequently, it can be very
effective. One of the greatest advantages is that you never
have to tweak your web pages to change your position in
search engine results, as you must do in a typical SEO
campaign. What you do have to do in a pay-per-click
campaign is pay a fee.
Another advantage is the simplicity of the pay-per-click
process. You just bid and you’re up and running. It doesn’t
demand any specific technical knowledge, though the more
you know about search engines and keywords, the easier -
and more effective – the process will be.
The downside is that pay-per-click is essentially a bidding
war. A higher bid than yours will lower your position on
search engine results. This means that you will have to
raise your bid to regain your position – which can
obviously become quite expensive, especially if you are
bidding on a popular keyword.
In order to determine if pay-per-click is a cost effective
form of marketing for your business, you must do some
computing to figure out how much each visitor to your site
is worth. You can compute this value by dividing the profit
you make on your website over a given period of time by the
total number of visitors for that same time period. For
example, if your site made $5,000 in profits and there were
2,5000 hits, each visitor would be theoretically worth 50
cents. The basic formula is profits divided by visitors.
The figure of 50 cents per visitor is the point at which
your business breaks even. The idea, of course, is to show
a profit, not to merely cover your costs. Therefore, you
are aiming at a figure less than 50 cents per click.
Be aware that the most popular keywords often cost
considerably more than 50 cents a click. The only way
around this is to bid less for these phrases or you will be
paying too much for each individual hit.
The key (pun intended) to success is to learn everything
you can about search engine keyword research. The good news
is there isn’t a limit to the amount of keywords you can
add to your bid because additional keywords do not add
additional cost. This translates into a lot less hassle for
you because there is no need to optimize your site to index
a particular set of keywords.
Obviously, some keywords are much more effective than
others are, but they will not cost you anything except time
to set-up your account in your pay-per-click bid. Of the
popular search engines that offer pay-per-click, one called
Overture provides an online tool that will give you the
data on how often particular keywords are entered into
their search engine. They also offer suggestions for
keywords after you enter a description of your site.
In pay-per-click, this written description is crucial. You
must understand that the object of your description is not
to generally attract visitors, but to be as specific as
possible so that only those visitors who are likely to buy
your service or product go to your site. You must use
expert marketing copy to guarantee that your description is
both precise and enticing to attract the most ideal
candidates to your site. This description is your most
powerful tool to insure that your bid is profitable.
Another essential element of pay-per-click advertising is
that you constantly monitor your bid. It is very important
that you bear in mind that the results of the top search
engines providing pay-per-click advertising, which are
Overture and Adwords Select, usually appear on other
popular search engines. Because of this, the competition
for top ranking is intense, and very often you will find
that the bidding price balloons too high for pay-per-click
to yield a profit.
If this happens, it is advisable to withdraw your bid on
that particular keyword and try another one. Remember: when
you pay too much per click to make a profit, you are in
essence losing the bidding war.
Since losing is not acceptable, you must have a plan in
place to closely track the effectiveness of your keyword.
It is advisable to monitor your keywords on at least a
monthly basis.
Not only is careful monitoring important, but the analysis
of visitor behavior can produce invaluable knowledge about
consumer motivation, habits, and trends. Expert monitoring
and consumer analysis is essential to your overall business
needs, and will also insure that your pay-per-click
campaign is a success.
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Since search engines are the first stop for people on the Internet looking for goods or services, the position your website appears in search results is an important factor. If your URL shows up far down the results list, the chances of the consumer never finding you increase incrementally. Once you achieve a high search engine position, it is essential that you make sure you maintain the high ranking you have worked so hard to achieve.
This means you must come up with a strategy to monitor your search engines positions. This strategy is crucial to the success of any marketing campaign. Think of your search engine positions as your online portfolio. Would you let your stock portfolio be ruled by chance and market fluctuations, or would you keep close tabs on your stocks so you could buy and sell when the time is right? This is the way you must consider your search engines positions.
Be aware that at first, after you have launched your search engine campaign and done all the right things to increase your rankings, you will most likely see a continual upward climb. What you need to be on the lookout for is the moment that upward climb reaches a plateau. When this happens, your search engine position campaign moves into stage two, the monitoring and protecting stage.
In stage two, do not be concerned about the short-term fluctuations in your positions. These are similar to the subtle rising and falling of stocks in a portfolio. Short-term movement is an integral part of the whole process. It’s the long-term changes that you must watch for and prepare to act on immediately.
Analyzing the long-term trends of search engines positions is imperative. The way in which search engines rank websites may change at the drop of hat. If you are unaware of these changes – many of which are subtle yet can be deadly to your ranking – your position may drop to the bottom of the list before you can get your bearings. To prevent this kind of precipitous drop, you must create a system to monitor your positions on a monthly basis. Devise a chart to keep tabs on your top ranking positions or your top pages, and make sure to watch “the market” closely.
Each search engine uses a formula to compute website rankings. When a search engine changes this formula in any way, it may raise or lower your ranking. Some search engines use a number of different formulas, rotating them so that a formula doesn’t become overused or outdated. Depending on which formula is being applied, your search engine position may suddenly drop or rise in rank significantly. Therefore, you must check your positions frequently in order to catch when a search engine changes formulas and what effect it has on your positions.
You must also deal with your competition – a crucial factor you must always be vigilant about. Your competitor’s position may suddenly rise, automatically lowering your position. Or their position may drop, pushing your position higher. Each month, expect position changes due to the continual changes that are occurring in your competitor’s position, and be prepared to adjust your marketing strategy to compensate for decreased rankings. Monitoring these fluctuations will also give you vital information about how to improve your website to increase your position in search results.
Of course, you must discern what the most popular search engines are in order for your monitoring efforts to be effective. Right now, there are ten popular search engines that direct most of Internet traffic to your sites. The challenge you face is that these top ten may change from month to month.
This means that your must not only monitor your search engine positions, but you must also keep track of the ranking popularity of the search engines you are monitoring. Find out which search engines people use most frequently every month and be sure to live in the present! People are fickle about their favorite search engines, and it takes constant vigilance to follow their dalliances. The search engines they loved when you first launched your campaign may be old news in the next few months. You must adjust your list of engines according to the whims of the Internet users. Check out
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/netratings.html
for a current list of website favorites.
Another factor to monitor carefully is a sudden drop of your positions in all search engines. This is not the same as monthly fluctuations – this is a neon red warning sign! It could mean a number of different things.
It all your search engine positions have plummeted, it may indicate that search engines spiders – those sneaky programs that seek out your site and rank their positions - have found some type of problem with your website. If you have recently changed the code, for instance, the spider may become utterly confused and consequently drop your positions disastrously. If a spider creeps up on your website when it is down for adjustments or changes, you may actually disappear from a search engine index entirely. Or a search engine may drastically change its formula, and suddenly all of your websites come up as irrelevant. If that search engine is a current favorite, it may create a domino effect, causing all of your position to drop in all search engines.
Some search engines rely on the results from other search engines, and it is vital that you know which engines these are and keep track of all the engines they influence. The biggest problem here is that search engines will sometimes change affiliations, and this can create a major shift in the geography of the Internet. For example, recently Yahoo decided to display only results gleaned from Google. So you must not only monitor your own positions, but you must keep abreast of seismic shifts in the landscape of the Internet as a whole.
Finally, pay attention to your keywords. Keywords are the foundation bricks of the entire search engine system, and they demand individual scrutiny in your monitoring efforts. If you have found that a number of your positions have plummeted, it may mean that a page of your website has become invisible or inaccessible to search engine spiders. Or the competition for that particular keyword or phrase has recently rocketed into outer space. In either case, you must act quickly and efficiently to regain lost ground.
Your search engine marketing campaign is an investment. If costs you time and money on a continual basis. Protect this investment as diligently as you would your financial portfolio. In the same way, track your positions from an objective perspective, and monitor your positions on a regular basis. Make sure your time and effort reap rewards by keeping your eye on the big picture – your long-term marketing campaign.
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Nov
30
Website Design To Bring Better Visibility To Online Business
HTML / Joomla / Search Engine Marketing / Search Engine Optimization / SEO / Web Pages / Web Pages & Web Graphics / Wordpress Posted by Tony Mack
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Engaging Website Design To Bring Better Visibility To Online Business
The greatest challenge in website design is tuning the right chord at right time with the right target audience. In this era of high-end technology, having a website with an engaging look and design not only reveals the identity of a company but also serves as an effective way of building big profitable business relationships. There are plenty of website design companies in Augusta who build their services and promote their website design, but fail to provide that much needed level of professionalism, needed to prove the effectiveness of the website. Whichever, brilliant website design in Augusta you incorporate, if it is not optimized for search engines and lacks proper web marketing strategy, there remains always a chance of your site not being able to serve the necessary purpose. So, be it the launch of new product or service or conveying business ideas, One Source Graphics can serve your purpose the best way with right type of website design solutions.
Know What Are The Keys To Quality Website Design
Having an aesthetically designed website is just not enough. With digital marketing getting immensely competitive, it seems important to make sure that your website is well designed and ranks high in search engine. Let’s take you through some of the important things, necessary to build a quality website design.
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Consistent design
Having an appropiate design all throughout the pages help users in knowing where exactly they have come over and where they need to go to find their requirements. The feel and design of the site must remain consistent throughout as that helps in creating a sense of ease for user, enabling them to stay on the site for longer period. Remember , it is through consistent web site design only, the whole message of the site gets conveyed in right manner.
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Visual Appeal
It would be wise to create a website, which your target audience will find pretty appealing. A designer must take good care of the factors like font styles, high resolution graphics, right color contrasts, layout and more to create an everlasting impression.
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Easy Navigation
One of the vital aspects of successful website design is easy navigation. Find out how easily navigable the site is for both search engine spiders and visitors. The more clear and logical the structure of the website is, the greater is the chance of retaining the navigational aspects of website design. Remember, without a simple and user-friendly navigation, browsing through the website becomes a real challenge for the prospective visitors.
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High quality Content
In the web world, the power of words is simply unsurpassed. No matter, how aesthetically beautiful the website is, it tends to loose its sheen if the content seems badly written and incorporated. At One Source Graphics, we take good care of such things and thus enhance the aesthetic appeal of site.
So, make your online business speak with engaging website design!
Nov
25
Essential SEO - Search Engine Optimization - Advice for New Webmasters
Sales & Marketing / Search Engine Marketing / Search Engine Optimization / SEO / Websites, IT & Software Posted by Tony Mack
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The world of SEO can be confusing. This article contains some useful search engine optimization advice to help you get your website better rankings in the search engine results.
The right keywords are essential to your success. Make sure you select keywords that are unique and also at the same time beneficial to your business. You do not want to pick generic keywords and meta tags because this will not help you. You must put time and effort into your keywords and meta tags to see your page pop up in the results. Think long and hard about certain keywords, and once you have attained this position, you can use those keywords in many different ways.
Article marketing is a very effective tactic. You can use multiple sites with articles talking about your products and services, all of them linking to one another. This is a way to broaden your horizons and attain a customer base from many different directions. They call the internet the web for a reason. Web different sites together and your presence then becomes stronger online.
While you may want to do much of the work yourself, hiring a SEO consultant still may be an option. You have to have a business plan set in motion, so you need to have a search engine optimization plan set in motion. This has a lot to do with your business being successful online. So, weigh the pros and cons of hiring and SEO consultant and see which direction you need to go.
Seek the advice of others. Visit popular SEO forums and get practical advice from other web masters. This will help you know what to do, and you will learn different tricks of the trade that could go a long way in helping your business become successful online.
By carrying out some of the advice contained in the tips above, you could increase your website’s ranking and hopefully start to get more free organic visitors.
Nov
21
How to Best Use Social Media to Boost Your Business
Advertising / Internet Marketing / Marketing / Search Engine Marketing Posted by Tony Mack
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Social media is an amazing business opportunity that gives you access to millions of potential customers! It is also only as powerful as how you use it. Here are some great ideas on how to use social media to take your business to the next level.
1. Take the time to learn about each social network.
Social media is more complex to market with than people immediately think! Every social network is different. They target different audiences, different lifestyles and different messaging styles. And as you know, people can belong to multiple social networks. They may expect different types of information based off of the network they are using at the moment. Taking the time to understand the social network landscape can better prepare you and keep you from making costly errors.
2. Test the social networks yourself and stay on top of new options.
Reading about social networks can only take you so far; you need to get in the trenches. Join the social networks yourself and see what they are all about. By experiencing them first hand, you’ll learn a lot more about how to use them as a marketing tool. Also, be sure to keep up with what is up and coming. There are numerous niche networks that pop up that may be perfect marketing vehicles for your business!
3. Make quality brand homes on the social networks.
One of the worst things you can do is decide that a social network is important, start a page, then leave it half done for its life cycle. If you are serious about social media, be serious about your home page. It is your calling card to the community, and it should reflect the passion you have for your business.
4. Market exclusive discounts and sales to the social community.
Social networks as a platform thrive on exclusivity. Being a member of a group is a big thing, so exclusive offers scratch that same itch. When you make an offer that is only available to your followers, you make your followers feel important and that your brand cares about the relationship. That’s the kind of trust building that makes customers loyal to your brand!
5. Update your home page consistently.
Even a completed page can feel stagnate if there is no posting or content made available on a regular basis. Remember, social media is a living organism. It thrives on change and new information. Those that succeed in social media marketing understand this and post status updates and content on a daily basis! Build the time to update your social networks into your daily schedule. It can really pay off.
6. Find the right social network for you.
As mentioned, there are a lot of niche social networks out there and more coming online every day. Find the social networks that befit your brand. With these niche networks, you may find an opportunity to really come forward as a thought leader in the community, a very powerful position for your brand to be in.
Social media is a very powerful tool when used properly. Look into your options, experience the networks yourself and be consistent in your communication. Your efforts can lead to a new customer base that you would have never found before!
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Aug
08
Improving My Google Ranking - Some Tips that Helped me
Sales & Marketing / Search Engine Marketing / Search Engine Optimization Posted by Tony Mack
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How Do I Move My Website to Page One? How do I conquer the internet? One byte at a time! Here are a few tips for improving website ranking, moving higher in the organic listings (Organic listings, of course, refers to the free listings located below and to the left of the paid advertising). This is not a comprehensive list; just a few approaches that moved my website from the 13th page to the first page. You may require additional steps to achieve your results, based upon the industry you are involved in, the level of competition, the level of optimization for your site, and a hundred other variables.
Article Writing. My first approach, though not unique, is an often ignored medium. I was shocked by how quickly things changed after writing my first electronic article. Not a writer? Nonsense. If you are reading this article then you are savvy enough to write articles. Go to any article website and, since there is some variation between sites, read the author/editorial guideline page carefully. This is a small learning curve that any high school graduate can master. Not a high school graduate? That’s an article for another day. Submit your work to as many popular article outlets as possible. Also, write as many articles as your e-ink will allow. Link your articles back to your website, usually in the bio section of your article.
Writing Articles. Choose a title with important words (keywords from your website) in the title. Don’t stuff the title with more than six keywords. Study the topic on a search engine: “How to choose keywords for seo.” This will also help with your title, which is just as important as the article itself. Write an introductory paragraph saying what you are going to say, say it in the body of the article, then write a concluding paragraph saying what you just said. Put most of your best stories, jokes, attention getters, toward the front of the article, not at the end. Give away something of value in your article-useful, on-topic information. Don’t worry about how good the article is, just keep writing. The more you write the better you will get.
Web Referrals. In my office equipment repair business in San Luis Obsipo County I work with a great company that consistently ranks high on the internet. This company has given me many referrals for printer repairs and I am trying to get leads for their computer repair business. On my website I mentioned the fact that I work with this outstanding company and gave out their website URL. Two days later my site appeared on the first page of Google and Yahoo Search engines under the category of Printer Repair Arroyo Grande and Typewriter Repair Grover Beach. The first line of the ad talked about what I do and, and, in the smaller print, beneath the title, was a phrase describing the fact that I work with that outstanding computer repair company. In other words, search engines read the wording of my URL reference, then added that phrase to my organic listing. The spiders that roam the web, mapping out a larger portion of the internet for you, as they make these connections, really do pay attention to what is on your website.
Search Engine Criterion. Of course, your website must meet search engine criterion for web searching. Article writing and back-linking (linking articles you write to your website by including your web address in the bio section of your article) will help drive traffic to your website, but if search engines do not like your website you will slow down traffic, like dropping half empty paint cans on the freeway. For example, if you advertise toner cartridges in your titles and meta tags, don’t advertise lingerie in the body of your web page. Also, make sure your meta tag words appear in the body of your web pages. Meta tags are the keywords in your html head that search engine spiders use to determine the content of your website. Make it easy on the spiders.
Whether your business is a local health food store or internet marketing, be vigilant about your study of the internet. Make your presence known – spread your URL around with ezine articles. Be generous. Be willing to give away useful information about your products or services. Put your best stuff or attention getters toward the front. Reference those who have helped you. They will appreciate it and so will search engines. Make a search engine optimization (SEO) checklist, based on your study of the topic and do it ONE STEP AT A TIME. Finally, expect progress, not perfection.
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Company: Accutek
Region: Central California
Website: accuteksite.com
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Mike Edwards has been repairing office equipment since 1983, beginning in San Diego and now in SLO County, California. His website is www.Accuteksite.com and his phone number is 805-704-9704.
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Jul
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Learn why local search engine marketing is essential for your business
By now, most people are aware of the benefits of search engine marketing and search engine optimization. One concept that many businesses have not completely explored, however, is using local search engine marketing to extend your online reach even further as well as to drum up local business. It is important that you learn why local search engine marketing is essentially for your business if you want to get the most out of everything that search engine marketing and search engine optimization have to offer.
Search engine marketing and search engine optimization, in their traditional forms, are designed to optimize for all users of the internet, including users from all over the world. By focusing on a search engine marketing endeavor that is localized, you can make sure that you are attracting attention from the right web traffic – People in your local area that can patronize your business not only online, but in person as well.
Search engine marketing involves keyword optimization, and you are probably already using keywords in your web content and advertising endeavors. The way that you can localize your search engine marketing campaign is to change the way that you optimize your content with keywords by implementing local modifiers for the keywords that you use. For example, keywords like “weight loss help” are over saturated because there are so many websites on the internet today that are using keywords like these, broad as they are. Could it be possible to optimize for this keyword while catering to a local crowd? How about “weight loss help in austin tx”? Now you are carving out a niche for yourself, and seriously cutting down on the competition by targeting a specific area, the local area where you operate.
There are a lot of websites on the internet that can help you with local search engine marketing as well. Websites like http://www.yelp.com and even http://maps.google.com can help you increase your search engine marketing capabilities online. When you create a local presence for your company or business online, you are creating a completely new and unique presence for yourself online that will go further then your traditional web presence, allowing you to reach out to new audiences that normally would not find you online. This way, when people start looking for local help in their vicinity, and they plug a query into a search engine, your business will come up for them.
In case you weren’t aware of this already, most people are going to prefer working with local businesses rather than product and service providers in other states and countries. This means that catering to your local audience is vitally important to the success of your business and your ability to attract traffic to your website, blog or anything else that you are attempting to market and advertise online.
Are you ready for your business phone to ring off the hook ?
If you think that our search engine optimization services may be what your business needs, give us a call at 800-974-5580 or request a price quote. Thanks for visiting!
James is a business coach and mentor that assists serious entrepreneurs in building a profitable online business with multiple incomes streams. James and his team have assisted hundreds of people in generating profits in their very first year. For more information and to contact James, visit his website.http://thesevenfigurepro.com
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No matter how profitable and successful a local business is, building that business into a prosperous, lucrative internet force will require a good deal of advertising and marketing. Even if your business is the largest of its type in the state, that is small potatoes on the much larger and global scale of the internet. Any company wanting to make the leap to the internet world must learn about and utilize search engine marketing if they want their online business to be as successful as their offline one.
Many businesses will, of course, hire web designers and webmasters and other online specialists to help them get started on the internet. Even so, the business will need to know the techniques of search engine marketing (SEM) so that they will understand what must to be done in order to explode their online presence.
SEM Starts with Keywords
The most important part of a search engine marketing plan is to figure out the keywords for the business. These cannot simply be plucked out of the air; instead, they must be researched. There are websites that can help a person to determine the best keywords to use for any website. Two of these sites include wordtracker.com and adwords.google.com.
The basic idea in choosing keywords for SEM isn’t complicated. It involves selecting phrases or words that fit both your business and how customers search online for matters relating to your business. For example, let’s say your company sells organic dog and cat treats and food. Keywords for your website may be ‘organic,’ ‘dog treat,’ ‘organic dog food,’ ‘cat treats,’ ‘organic pet food,’ ‘pet food,’ ‘dog food,’ ‘organic cat treats,’ or many other variations of number of other possibilities. By using one of the websites listed above, businesses can determine how consumers search for these products most often by plugging in the possible keywords.
After finding the keywords that are searched for most often, businesses will know which terms to use as keywords for the website. This will be extremely valuable when building the site because keywords are the foundation for many SEM strategies.
Using Keywords Effectively
There are many ways in which keywords can and should be built into a company website. A few of these are very important, however:
- Domain name: It is essential to use keywords in the domain name because this is what search engines look at. Using the example above, the domain name should be something like ‘organicpetfoods.com.’
- Homepage title and copy: The domain name should be used as the title on the homepage. In addition, the keywords should be used in a section of writing on the homepage. This will help to tell all the different search engines what the website is about.
- Make each page about a different keyword: This will help to build up more content and to get more of the company’s pages ranked higher in the search engines for more keywords.
There are more SEM techniques, of course-these are just the basics to get a business on its way to success in the online world.
Are you ready for your business phone to ring off the hook ?
If you think that our search engine optimization services may be what your business needs, give us a call at 800-974-5580 or request a price quote. Thanks for visiting!
James is a mentor and business coach that assists serious entrepreneurs in building a profitable online business with multiple incomes streams. James and his team have assisted hundreds of people in generating profits in their very first year. For more information and to contact James, visit his website.http://thesevenfigurepro.com
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