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Friday, November 15, 2013

Search Engine Optimization & Your Business

By Marcus Ryan


One of the best ways to generate quality traffic and leads for any business is through search engine optimization. Search engine optimization also known as SEO is basically optimizing your site internally and externally to appear higher in the search engines for particular keywords or phrases. If you been looking into SEO in this article we'll provide you with some powerful tips.

There are many ways to improve results you get from search engines. Having the best possible search engine optimization is important for drawing in more traffic. Increased performance means happier users. To make your site more noticeable you should use a lot of keywords; even ones that are misspelled in the meta tag area. The keywords in your metatags will help search engines match your website with relevant searches. As an example, if your website is about drinking glasses, be sure your metatag includes "drinking," "glasses," "drinking glasses," etc.

Some small business owners turn into PPC or Pay-Per-Click advertising to avoid getting into SEO thinking that is too expensive and it takes too long. Although search engine optimization doesn't happen overnight the results from a good campaign can last many years and it can be more profitable because you are saving a bunch of money from advertising. The best place to start is by optimizing your content so that it has more text than pictures and provides real value.

If you plan to outsource your SEO work then do some research. Before hiring a so called "seo expert" learn how much experience this expert actually has. You need to know all the risks in order to make a truly informed decision. Use keyword-friendly anchor text for links between pages on your website. Just typing "click here" followed by linking to that term, will not help your search rankings. Selecting the optimum keywords to use in anchor text will really get you noticed by the crawling spiders.

Even though it looks complicated, search engine optimization is not hard to understand once you know the principles of basic optimization. However if you believe is too much for you then hiring a professional would be your best choice. We hope that this article has given you a few tips and ideas on how to approach SEO for your own business.




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