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The Magic of SEO - How Search Engine Optimization Can Be Magical!

If you recently started creating your own website for your company, you probably haven't been getting many hits or leads because of it. This can be because it hasn't been search engine optimized yet. If you haven't heard about SEO yet, it's time to learn! Great search engine optimization skills can get you a higher position in search engine results, which in turn leads to more customers in both the long and the short run. Best of all, search engine optimization is quickly becoming the easiest way for companies to increase their sales more each year with minimal effort.

Keywords...What Are They?

When people search for your company, they may or may not know your company's name. More often than not, people use keywords to search the net for different things. For instance, a person who is looking to lose weight might Google “weight loss tips” or “diet plans” in order to learn more about the subjects. Using the right keywords in your company's SEO tags, articles, and descriptions can help you get the traffic that you need without having to break the bank.  It's the first step to a properly search engine optimized website.

Choosing the Right Keywords

A well-optimized website is a website that uses the right keywords to get the search engine results they want to see. The best way to differentiate between a good keyword and a bad one is to do a little bit of research. Plenty of different tools exist to help compare the frequency of different keywords used in internet searches. In order to really give your website a boost, you will need to use the most commonly searched keywords that you can get.

The right keywords also can be in a particular pattern. For instance, “weight loss tips” is a three word keyword that is frequently searched by people who are looking for weight loss. Meanwhile, “tips gaining diet” is just a phrase that almost no one searches for. Many of the more common keywords are intuitive, while others may need to be researched in depth.

Positioning Your Keywords

Using keywords just isn't enough in an optimized website anymore. You need to put the right keywords in the right part of your page. For many local businesses, adding keywords to the title of the page, as well as a few extra in the description is a great way to get search engines to notice pages. Many will also place keywords as META tags in the HTML, which signals to search engines that the site should be listed in the results for that term. Google and many other search engine no longer use the meta keywords tag.

Besides optimizing the site content, the easiest way to get search engines to notice your keywords is to place them in articles. Articles and blog posts are a great way to get crawlers (the algorithms that engines use) to notice them. The more that you use keywords, the better it will be for your website. However, there's more to articles than just meets the eye when it comes to SEO practices, and it's surprising how much this kind of content can improve your rankings if used correctly.

What's So Special About Articles and Keywords?

A well-written article, sprinkled with keywords, can be submitted to article directories. People search the net for products, businesses, and information. If you can offer all three, you will become a buzzword of your field on the net. People who enjoy the article will link to it, and will pass it on to others. By adding a link to your site to the article, people will follow the trail of links to your site. Frequently sending out press releases is another way to build traffic and optimize your site. The more that people talk about your site, your company, and your services, the higher your rank on major search engines will be. Besides, it's important to establish your internet presence if you want to get a lot of sales from people all over the world.

The amazing thing about keywords is that they make search engine optimization easy. The effects that SEO can have on a company's profits may seem like magic. Isn't it time that you start optimizing your site?

 

Contact us to learn more about our search engine optimization services.

- Nina Menezes

 

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