Creating a well-designed website is the first step in your
internet marketing strategy. Once the website has been created
and optimized, there are further techniques to employ that will
drive traffic to your website for successful, long-term results.
You wouldn’t consider opening a retail store in a major shopping
mall without signage and you shouldn’t consider having a nice
looking website designed without expanding your web presence in
order to be found on the internet. But unless the website is
designed correctly to begin with, follow-on SEO efforts will
have limited results at best. The following strategy overview is
designed to bring about productive SEO results:

- Create an attractive website that is complementary to your
company image and provides your targeted audience with
information about you, your company and your products and/or
services.

- Design a website that has a call-to-action in the form of a
purchase or providing you a contact, subscription or other
commitment from your visitor.

- Create a successful marketing arm for your overall business
promotion and marketing campaign to promote your business,
products and/or services with the many follow-on strategies that
drive traffic to your website.

- Become competitive in your industry and marketplace by meeting
or exceeding the industry marketing standards and attracting a
qualified audience for your products and/or services based on a
strong reputation.

- Generate and maintain or grow internet traffic to your website
resulting in a conversion of traffic into sales of your products
and/or services by evolving as your market demands.

This search engine optimization (SEO) strategy is composed of
several processes in three stages: 1) Good web design, 2)
Attracting attention from search engines and directories, and 3)
Creating long-term popularity on the internet. However, it all
starts with good web design. Website design is the foundation
and beginning of a successful internet marketing strategy. It is
true that there are websites on the internet that are
unattractive but somehow seem to work. If there are aspects of
these websites that work, imagine how well they could do if they
simply followed basic design implementation tactics that
resulted in a good image as well as simply pushed information
out to the viewer.

These basics are essential for Tier 1 success:

- Good web design will complement and enhance the company image
and offline marketing campaign products creating a corporate
branding if done well.

- Easy, logical navigation that leads the viewer deeper and
deeper into the web of information provided by the website will
keep the visitor on your site longer and give you more time to
sell your products or services.

- Attractive but quick-loading graphics that are pleasing to the
eye and meaningful to the website will guide the viewer along
the route you decide is important for explaining what you offer.

- Keyword usage that is search engine-friendly depends on how
the keywords are utilized, the placement of the keywords, the
frequency of the most important keywords and their relevance to
the website.

- Website coding that is lean, clean and without errors will
keep the search engines happy and your viewer seeing exactly
what you intended to offer.

- Relevance of content to the theme of the site is essential. Be
concise, to the point and focus on your goals. If you have
multiple themes and offerings, consider multiple websites to
address the different markets, then tie each website back to the
others by linking.

- Changing content that changes frequently and stays fresh keeps
your viewer returning and prevents the search engines from
treating your website as if it were stale news. A stale site
will be ranked lower by the search engines.

Content is king — it’s all about content, content, content. But
how that content is presented is what makes the difference.

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Chesa Keane
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If you’re approached by an online marketing agency claiming they can get you a Top 10 search engine ranking “overnight”, turn around and run away!

That’s the advice a prominent Arizona SEO Company offers to business owners who are looking to get to the top of the search engine results quickly.

Search on any term in Google and you’re likely to get thousands of web addresses returned to you. And, if you’re like the average surfer, you’ll never click below the Top 10 listings. That’s because nearly 100% of anyone’s search requirements are fully satisfied by web sites appearing on the first of the many search engine result pages (SERPs). If you’re not on the first page, you might as well not be there at all.

The only way to earn and keep a Top 10 rating, other than buying your way to the top by bidding outrageous amounts of money for a laundry list of key words, is to use natural search engine optimization techniques.

Often called “organic search engine optimization”, these natural search engine optimization techniques work because the online marketing agency, or search engine optimization firm, using them creates pages of web content that are specially designed to attract search engine “spiders”.

These pages are optimized with just the right blend of targeted key words, proper HTML tags, and a page/web linking strategy that search engines look for.

Natural search engine optimization is part art and part science and a lot of online marketing experts are getting it wrong. That’s why our contact at a noted Chandler Web Firm recommends that you check out the references that a search engine optimization firm provides before you sign any agreement.

Besides checking references, which can always be faked, ask the online marketing agency for a list of key words that they have achieved Top 10 ratings for. Then search on those terms and see if any of the web sites in the Top 10 match the reference list you were given.

Finally, our Arizona SEO Company friend says that you should beware of any search engine optimization company that cannot provide a couple of local references. After all, how good of a marketing agency can a company be if they claim to be a Scottsdale marketing company and they don’t have any clients in their home town?

Eddie Sanmarco
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SEO basics start with the composition of the words on your pages and what intrinsic value they offer your audience. The first prerequisite of SEO is understanding the basic correlation of content composition and the impact that content has on rankings respecitively.

Relevance is the underlying criteria that search engines reward, if your content is specific, informative and manages to acquire click through traffic, then your pages have the trappings of becoming popular which is a component to acquiring a top 10 ranking.

Aside from the title tag, (the main tag you use to describe the content of the page) and the links that endorse your content through back links (links from other sites)and the copy (which is completely under your control). There are fundamental guidelines you can adhere to that will assist you in keeping your content on topic to elevate topical relevance.

What are Search Engines?

Search engines are a cataloging system that are essentially transparent in their composition. Search engines are expected to glean information and organize data from thousands of unique industries, compile that data and then, based on the fetch command you issue as a result of you entering a boolean query in the search box are then expected to retrieve the most relevant result.

Understanding the premise of how search engines function rather than struggling to adapt and muscle your way up the SERPs (search engine result pages) is far easier instead.

Through appeasing the laws of their construction (the mathematical algorithm, teamed up with it’s ability to gain contextual artificial intelligence like phrase rank algorithm, search engines have the ability interpret the context of your pages.

Your focal point is simply to provide the ideal (relevant) result according to their ranking criteria. Which falls into three categories.

These three measuring sticks search engines use to assess content in addition to semantic synonyms and related phrases are called allinanchor, allintitle and allintext.

Talk about green widgets enough on your page, they know your page is about green widgets (allintext), placing it in the title is also a great way to signal the plane (allintitle) or get enough links from other pages that say your site is about green widgets and even if it is or not, it can potentially rank for that or related phrases (allinanchor).

That in a nutshell is how SEO basics play out according the the search engine spiders (the little programs that scour the web looking for new or exciting information to report back to the index).

The next part of SEO basics will cover how to ensure that your content is spider friendly or how to invite search engine spiders to skim, index and rank your content.

In closing, the gist is (1) make your titles unique (2) keep your writing style focused and use key words (words containing the phrases you want to rank for) as well as develop as many on topic links from other sites to cement your position in the search engine result pages.

Just writing about it on your site is not enough, unless you sites has hundreds of thousands of strong links pointing at in, in which case it can rank on the title tag alone. That is called website authority and is yet another topic we will be covering in the future.

The most relevant search result is the one that makes it to the top 10. There are no secrets involved, just logical relevance, but popularity counts so don’t just write dry content.

The whole exercise of SEO is to get traffic from people. Since people pay the bills and not spiders, make sure you have something worth saying and they will take notice and pass it along.

Otherwise, you are only helping your competition by leaving your guests hungry or thirsty for more topical information about your subject. In which case, they will simply return to the search engine and click the next result in the list. So, the bottom line is user engagement aside from topical relevance and traffic.

I am developing a website, and was eager to know what all I should consider for Search Engine Optimization, while developing my website.

Thanks

Keywords are definitely a big deal. The general rule of thumb is that you’ve got to please Google because it’s the biggest search engine in the world, and if Google sneezes, all other websites follow suit.

Each page of your website should have 300-600 words with your keyword sprinkled throughout it 10-15 times. I’ve seen somewhere that 5 times is usually enough, so you might want to start out with five. This allows Google to pick up your keyword and index it.

Secondly, you need find out what kind of competition you might have. Type in a keyword or a keyword phrase in google related to your niche. If you get 2 million search results or less, you’ve got a good keyword phrase for a homepage. 3 million or less, you’ve got a keyword page for other pages in your website. Anything more than 3 million, you’re going to have a hard time getting noticed.

Third, you’ve got to make sure that keyword has enough of a search market. Anything less than 400 searches per month is lousy. You’re not likely to make sales. Go to Wordtracker Free Keyword Tool. Type in your keyword or keyword phrase.

Wordtracker gives daily search counts. So multiply the daily search count by 30. This will give you a monthly count. 400 or more, good deal. Less than 400, look for a different keyword.

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