Why Do You Need SEO?

Web designers are expert at design. With that in mind most designers are not marketers and are unaware of the implications of online marketing. If you do not optimize your site it’s like designing a beautiful brochure and putting it in a drawer where no one can see it. Optimization opens your site up to search engine spiders and the people searching for your products and services.

Higher Rankings |Increased Traffic | More Sales

Internet marketing and search engine optimization are concerned with higher search engine rankings and increased traffic to your web site. If the traffic is targeted to your products and services it can increase your sales and business dramatically.

What is Special About Highly Ranked Sites?

Search engines such as Google use various criteria to determine which sites will rank highest for particular search terms. These include; the age of the domain, the meta tags, the site content and the links pointing to the site from other related sites. Therefore the highest ranking sites will be given to those that have been around for a while, have relevant meta tags and content relating to the search terms, and have links from other ranked sites with similar content. High ranking sites are deemed ‘authority’ sites.

To develop an authority site takes time. Google looks for lots of quality content on your site that is relevant to the topic of the site. To build great content you should analyze what search terms (keywords) people are using to find your site. Your money keywords are those that visitors who convert into customers use to find your site. Your meta tags and content should be written around those keywords. Update your content regularly. Also links pointing to your site should use these keywords (contextual links). All this tells the search engine spider what your site is about and how important is in regards to all the other sites relating to the keyword.

Therefore if you have a relatively new site (under 2 years old) with your company name as the meta tags, with poorly written content, and with no links pointing to your site it has little chance of being listed in the search engine results or viewed by searchers.

Essential 3 Steps in Search Engine Optimization:

1. Define the keyword terms people are using to find your site and products
2. Make sure your meta tags and site content reflect these terms
3. Build up quality links from other sites using these terms

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