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Question: “I am a business owner and i can’t get clients to find my website on the internet, what to do?” Answer: One word: SEO. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization” which is the process of structuring your website in a way that makes it easy to find, read and index by search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo and therefore, visible to people who are looking for the services that you or your company offer.
Since people are relying more and more on Internet search these days, having a website is very important for any business, but having a well indexed site is crucial so people can find it easily. This is why search engine optimization is so important for your site.
Although other ways of advertising might work to promote your services, TV and Radio commercials, flyers, newspaper and other form of advertising promote your business temporarily and only reaches a small number of people. However, a good internet presence allows potential customers to find your address, email or phone number as well as information about the services that you offer.
Here are some tips and suggestions for optimizing your site for search engines:
- Use tools like Google Keywords suggestion tool to find the right keywords to your site
- Install and use Google Analytics to your site to get statistics from your site and analyze the results
- Use Google Webmaster Tools, they have very useful tips and tools that will definitely help you
- Backlinks are important for your site, but they have to come from sites related to yours.
- Sitemaps are extremely important for your site as they help search engines find their way around your site.
- Relevant and quality content is very important: remember search engines like what a user will like. Have quality content that will attract visitors and will make them like it and eventually share it with others, this will get you more traffic, create a buzz around your site and get search engines attention.
- If you can, add a blog to your site, it makes it more interactive, gives you more content and search engines love them; again don’t forget: relevant and quality content!
- If you have interesting and quality content, submit it to article sites and add a backlink to your site in the end of the article.
Here’s an interesting video where Google gives you SEO tips form the experts to optimize your site for Search Engines.
Hope this helps!
