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titleSEO….Why It’s Important (Whether, I Know It or Not)/titleOk, so you own a business. Great! Congratulations! How long have you been in business? Did you know that most businesses fail within the first 5 years? That is a true and prove statistic so if you have been a business owner for 5 or more years, then congratulations are truly in order. However, if your business is less than 5 years old, then I still congratulate you because, if nothing else, you had the guts and courage to step out there and try to turn your dream and/or passion into a viable money making entity, but I also warn and caution you strongly that no matter how great things may appear to be going, until you pass that 5 year mark, you are very much like a premature baby….. no matter how good things look right now, the future is very uncertain. p Don t let that fact bother you, though, because every single business out there today was 1 year old and 2 years old and 3 years old, and so on, at some point so you still have a chance to make it no mater how good or bad things look this very moment. The real question is What do I have to do to make it? As broad as that question may sound, it really is quite simple. There is a possibility of at least 1,000,000,000 answers to this question if you look at it at face value or in broad terms. Some potential answers could be : p Make more money Acquire investment capital Get a loan Sell more product Hire more sales people Acquire more inventory Offer more specials Upsell p These are just a few of the answers to the question that you might come up with and, even though these answers may be pretty good and true in most situations, they don t even begin to scratch the surface or be a definitive answer in and of themselves. But I can give you one answer that, no matter who you are, what business you are in, what you are selling or promoting, that is unilaterally true….. You have to make it so the people that do, or would, want your product or service can find you or, even better still, find out about you, your product or service and that you and it exists. This is where SEO comes in. p Unless you are just one of the most popular people in the history of the world and have a gazillion friends and family members that all love you and think that your product or service is just the absolute best thing since sliced bread and they all are just chomping at the bit to go out and tell everyone they know about you….. then you need SEO. The truth of the matter is even if you have the best product in the world and the best website too, until the search engines deem you worthy or extremely relevant, your website will never be found by the people who are looking for exactly what it is that you are selling. This is your biggest problem. 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titleIs Your Website Doing It’s Job?/titleWhether you have a business or a hobby you d like to share with others or a favorite sports team, actor, actress or a love of animals…. if you have a website, then you want people to see it, right? Well of course you do, otherwise you wouldn t have taken the time to think up a really great url, paid the money to secure it and, unless you are working with a special group and got it for free, the hosting and then spent all that time putting the pages together and then uploaded the whole thing and waited, on pins and needles, for the first visitors to come by and see your masterpiece. p So you sit and wait and wait and wait and , if you are very lucky, the visitors start coming in and there are more and more and one person tells two or three people about your site and they come and visit it and then those people tell two, three, ten, or maybe even fifteen people and they all visit your site and…. ok you get the picture, and before you know it…. you re a tremendous internet success and the whole world wide web is talking about you and praising your work and it all of a sudden turns into the next big thing! Woohooo. Isn t this awesome? Unfortunately, no matter how great, fabulous, terrific or awesome your site is….. this is not the way that it usually goes. There are those one, or two, in a trillion that this happens to but, for the rest of us, it doesn t happen like this. So what can you do? You don t want your site to sit there forever locked away in a little teeny, tiny corner of the internet where no one will ever know it existed, do you? p If you are a business owner, large or small, you truly can t afford for this to happen. Your website is your window to the world. It is the single largest, most important piece of your advertising, or it should be, and pathway to the millions and millions of people who are on the internet each and every day looking for exactly what it is you are selling. So you have to, I mean absolutely have to, get the word out that you are online and open for business and ready to deliver that latest, greatest whatchamacalit that everybody is looking for. So, once again, the question is what do you do? p What you do is get your website optimized. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a series of things that are done to your website to make it readable by the search engines so that they can determine what your Rank or Relevancy is to the industry in which you are doing business. Now that is the technical definition. The truth is it s part science, part luck and part plain old magic. Think of it like a tune-up for your website, much like a tune up for your car. The thing is, you have to be extremely careful because tweaking the wrong this or that can have the absolute opposite effect. p Google, Yahoo. AOL, MSN and all of the other major search engines, base the placement of your website in search results relative to the placement of other websites based on your rank or relevancy and they determine what yours is based on a multitude of factors. The most common ones are : 1. Keywords 2. Description 3. Title 4. Content 5. Traffic 6. Popularity 7. Industry Status p p Depending on who you ask, these are just some of the grading criteria. Some say these are all of the criteria. Some say that ones weighs more than the other and so on and so on. What I will tell you is that the right combination is achievable but unless you have studied the system and are extremely good at it…. you should probably hire a consultant to do the work for you. p In this article, I will explain to you what these particular criteria are. p 1. Keywords p These are the words that you choose that you feel people who are searching for what you are selling, will type into a search engine. They can be single words or phrases but you want to find out exactly what keywords or phrases people type into search engines when they are searching for the product or service that you sell. There are many keyword suggestion tools that you can use to find the ones that are most actively searched for. The only problem is, more often than not, the keywords that you select are the same ones that everyone else in your industry is using. As a matter of fact, the companies that come up highest in the searches generally pay money for the keywords that are searched the most. This practice is called Pay Per Click (PPC) and , depending on your industry and the keywords you want to be found under, the keywords can be very expensive to purchase. p 2. Description p The description is exactly what it sounds like. It is a brief description of what your website is about. The importance of the description is the fact that it is what is listed next to your site name when you do come up in search results. You want this to be clear, concise and short (if possible) because only a certain amount of it will be displayed when you come up in search results and the more you can tell someone about your site and what it has to offer in this short little blurb, the better the chances that what they are looking for might catch their eye and they may be enticed to actually click on the link and view your website. p 3. Title p Again, exactly what it says it is. The title of your website. This should be short, sweet and to the point. Usually it would include the name of your company and maybe your slogan. It can also include a very brief description of what your product or service is. If you can include a few of your keywords in the title…. it can be beneficial. p p 4. Content p This can and should be used to your advantage. The more information that you include in the content of your website, the better. This is where you have to make your case as to why your visitor should buy from you and not someone else. More importantly, the more you are able to include your keywords into the content of your site, the more seriously the search engines will take your site. Now, don t get any crazy ideas and decide to put your keywords over and over in succession in your content. That will not be work at all and will just make the search engines disregard your site. Part of how the search engines grade your site or decide what relevancy or rank to assign to it depends on it s readability level. In other words, your content has to consist of real sentences and paragraphs or your site will be disregarded. p p 5. Traffic p The amount of traffic the number of visitors that come to your site, how long they stay and how many pages they view are all taken into account when your traffic is rated. There are millions of websites on the internet and each and every day more are created and launched. The amount of traffic that all of the websites on the web receive is tracked and charted. Alexa is one of the companies that tracks this information. Quantcast is another. How many visitors you receive and what they do when they get there makes a difference in your rank. p 6. Popularity p With the advent of the Twitters, Facebooks, MySpaces and the many other social media sites and their huge popularity, a lot of weight is given to the likes and whims of the millions of people who are members. When the members of these sites deem your site important enough to bookmark your site inside of their social pages, this lends relevancy to your site. The more people that do it, the more the search engines view your site as credible. p 7. Industry Status p Who is linking to you? The search engines look at how many other sites point back to yours. Yes, they not only look at how many other sites link to you, but they also look at who they are and why they are linking to you. Some people try to cheat and use link farms or link trading companies. Well, that s not going to work out very well because if a site links to yours and you link to theirs, this is considered a reciprocal link or link exchange and it doesn t count very much at all. What the search engines are looking for is how many other sites, especially within the same industry that your site is in, that are linking to yours. The search engines view this as Industry credibility. It is also good to have links from the general public (preferably from inside one of the aforementioned super-social websites). p If you are looking for a great, affordable SEO company for your business that can get the job done, has a written money back guarantee and has a proven track record for getting their clients the rankings and position that they want…. Give a href=http://www.topspotsseo.comTop Spots SEO/a a try. 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