When planning your first small business website, there are three essential questions you should ask yourself: Who is your target audience? How will your target audience find you? How will you convert your visitors into sales? These questions sound obvious, but it’s amazing how many people don’t bother…and then moan that “our website doesn’t bring…
… No, they won’t. On the web, building a website is not enough. If there are no links to the site anywhere, no-one is going to visit it. The site won’t even be listed in any of the search engines without some incoming links. To get traffic, you will need to do some promotion. Web…
Take a moment to think about how you would really answer this question. If given enough thought just about any business owner who utilizes the Internet for any purpose will likely find that whether or not they intentionally organized an Internet marketing campaign, they may already be marketing their products and services on the Internet.…
A lot of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Professionals are voicing their opinions and saying than directories are dead. But remember, these are the people that also say that Page Rank is dead, SEO is dead, and the latest this is a dead theory. So is directory link building no longer worthy? well,…
There has been much debate on which factors are the most important when determining what domain to purchase. Choosing a domain name should be deeply tied to the business plan and the vision of the company. A domain can be chosen for its advantages in Search Engine placement, a company’s brand, or as a description…
In the past, SEO was simply a tool brand employed to drive traffic to their websites. Yet, in the past year alone, SEO has incurred dramatic changes that have altered its primary functions. SEO is more than simply a vehicle for driving traffic; it is transforming into a supportive mechanism for brand-building and 2013 is…
Credibility is an important ranking factor. The more credible a website is, the better it will rank on Google. How do search engines measure the credibility of a website and what can you do to improve the credibility of your own site? A) Proven elements that influence the credibility of your website There are several…
Backlinks are still the most important ranking signal of Google, Bing and other search engines. Since Google’s Penguin update, bulk-link spam doesn’t work anymore and the quality of the backlinks has become more important than ever before. A good plan will make your link building activities much more efficient. The following steps will help you…
Are you frustrated by Google’s recent updates? Do you think that it is too difficult to get high rankings on Google? There’s a simple six-step plan that will bring your website to the top of Google’s search result pages. Step 1: don’t try to outsmart Google Face it: if your website was hit by Google’s…
Internet. Business. Profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful merging you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful would always include the importance of generating traffic. So, we all know that at the core of it all, traffic is the essential…
If you are currently marketing your business online and have not put a great deal of thought into the content on your website, you may be making an incredibly costly mistake. The content on your website is invaluable for a number of reasons. First of all, it gives visitors to your website their first impression…
The online community is definitely a large marketplace that you cannot ignore, especially if you have an internet business. There are thousands if not millions of consumers that you can tap on the internet. At the same time, the internet also poses a quite different challenge. The easy access that internet provides also gives you…
