Someone suggested you make a website to advertise your business; you did it and began waiting for all of those new customers to start pouring in the doors. Didn't work? The truth is, it's not enough to just put your face on the net and hope for the best: you must put in the marketing work to help your website get more hits. An effective way to do this is through search engine optimization.
Your website should contain a variety of different "keywords:" they might be a single word, but most likely your keyword will be a phrase. These are the phrases most commonly entered into search engines when people are looking for your type of business or service. For example, if you are a dentist who works in Atlanta, Georgia, your most common keywords would probably be "Atlanta dentist" or "dentist in Atlanta."
A great deal of care and study should go into choosing your keywords. There are professional marketing companies whose job it is to know exactly how people search online, and these businesses can help you to select what might work best for you.
Your keywords will most likely be descriptive of your type of product and your business's location. Unless your company bears a name that is nationally known, a searcher will not be entering your name: it makes an impractical and ineffective keyword. The folks who are looking for you, even locally, probably do not even know your name at all: but they do know what they're shopping for.
Once you've established your keywords, you should place them repeatedly on your business's home page, and they should appear in the meta title line as well. However, overuse of your keywords will be recognized by a search engine's sophisticated evaluation mechanism and your rankings are likely to be reduced as a result.
There is a delicate balance that needs to be struck: you want your keywords to appear often enough to be effective (especially in the opening paragraph), but the text should still be easily readable and interesting. There is no need attracting new visitors to your site only to have them be turned off by it.
Search engine optimization is truly an art as well as a science. But once you figure out how the system works, you can really use it to your advantage. If it's done right, you'll not only have a great website, but one that increases your bottom line as well.
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If you are interested in the local marketing of your business, and want professional help with local search engine optimization, contact the experts at Orange Soda, Inc. Art Gib is a freelance writer.
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