As a business owner, you know that there are literally a million and one things that demand your attention on a daily basis. From employee issues, taxes, product, and customer service, skip on any one of them and you will pay a price in terms of lost customer loyalty, absenteeism from employees and other issues. One thing that must not escape your attention, especially if you wish to succeed online is search engine optimization for your business website.
What is search engine optimization though? SEO as it is usually called is the practice of analyzing and tweaking the copy of a given site (and in some cases the code) to give it more weight with search engine such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's Live. There are many techniques that can be used, but I'm going to focus on two today.
First, the best start you can have in the SEO game is by going over what are called meta tags. These are tags within the structure (code) of your site that do not display on the browswer screen but are instead "read" by the search engine spiders. Examples of some meta tags include:
Proper use of meta tags will go a fair way to ensuring that your site gets ranked in the category you want it in. As such it is important to spend the time and target your keywords properly as this will be the first thing the search engine spiders will see and is the first step in the search engine optimization process.
The next step is the site copy itself. The first thing you should focus on is the
tag. What is that? Take a look at the top left side of your browser. See the text there? That text is there courtesy of the title tag. Think of it as a site description. Here again, you'll want to do more than just list keywords. Instead, use a "hook." An example of this would be "Widgets, Bad for Your Health?" What this does when it shows up in the search results is it targets your keyword and it will cause readers to click, wanting to know more. Controversy is always a good hook.<br />
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The idea here is to try to think like your prospective reader or customer and NOT just like the search engines. Given that search engine optimization is as much about good, cohesive content as it is the right keyword research, this is something that you really need to watch.<div class="googleleft"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Beyond that you will want to ensure that your copy includes liberal use of your keywords without over doing it. Old tricks such as making tons of keywords super small or the same color as the background on the page will no longer work and the search engines will penalize you for it. If you just stick with providing relevant, timely, keyword rich content your readership and ranking will grow over time. And this is the point of a good search engine optimization strategy.<br />
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