Sunday, January 31, 2010

Effectively Promote Your Website With These Tips

By Julie Johnson

A few years ago, advertising your business was a simple task. Businesses utilized billboards and newspaper ads to get their name out into the public. Back then this was one of the most successful marketing strategies that a business could use, today it is not as profitable. Instead of looking towards billboard and newspapers for a service, customer now log onto the internet and everything they are looking for is right at their fingertips.

This means essentially that no matter what business you are in, you will need to stake a claim on the web for your business or get plowed over by your competitors. Creating an internet marketing plan for your business should include at least the three following players, Yahoo, Bing and of course internet giant Google, because if people are going to look for you on the web, they are more than likely going to look you up under one of the three major search engines.

Although many companies like to create these fabulous websites, this is not going to improve the search rankings on the major search engines. It has been proven that when someone is utilizing an internet search they often click the first result on the list. Therefore, if you are not the one on the top (or close to the top) you will be missing out on a lot of potential business.

So what is the best way to go about making your business visible to others on the web? Well, honestly the two biggest factors are valid links to amazing and relevant sites and of course fresh and informative content that will help inform potential customers as well as attract search engine spiders to your website.

Doing these two things can really help enhance your website and help move it to a higher ranking for your chosen keywords. Search engine optimization is something that can be accomplished by any company willing to put forth the effort and understanding the importance of good links and relevant, keyword rich content.

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