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Monday, January 9, 2012

Leading SEO Tips and Techniques Revealed



By David Jenyns 

Search engine optimization has been mastered by countless Internet marketers and those people are the ones getting the most success out of it. If you feel left behind even after you tried all the easy marketing methods, try some of these SEO tips and techniques because they are not that hard to apply and there is only a few guidelines to follow. Plus if you make any mistakes, you can easily correct them by simply making revisions to your pages and observe if there are any positive changes. Here are some of the tips and techniques that you should keep in mind while optimizing any website.

Use the Right Amount of Keywords

Certain keywords are what drive the article to the top results of search engines. Scattering these keywords across the article, title, headers, and other areas will signal the search engine to index these. However, don't forget that search engines won't be the only ones reading the content as your real target audience which are people will be reading the content and if the content has too many keywords, either the idea is lost or the reader could conclude that the article is there solely for advertising purposes. Try to limit yourself to at least 3-8 keywords or have a 3-5 percent keyword density and make sure that the keywords are far apart (50-100 words apart should be fine).Using excessive amounts of keywords may also be bad for some search engines like Google and may result to your page rank decreasing. If you really need to have lots of keywords in large articles, try to incorporate different keyword phrase variations and use them sparingly.

Create Quality Content

You can have the best keyword setup in an article, but if the content isn't very good, you might not be getting the sales or opt-ins that you expect. Not to worry though because all you need to do is read the content that you have made yourself and put yourself in the customer's perspective and make a conclusion whether or not it is interesting and what parts make it uninteresting. You can have a friend check it out and have him or her ask any questions that may not be answered in the content. Answering all of these questions that come to mind while using good keywords will significantly drive more interest.

Be Consistent

When you finally got the hang of search engine optimization, don't stop there even if you placed several articles on your site and in other areas. Keep going and keep your site updated with fresh content while still applying the keyword tricks mentioned earlier. If you think your site is popular enough, remember that competing websites may try harder to climb up the search engine results and page rankings. Make it a habit to produce more interesting content for your site and work on getting new links to take your site to higher levels. If you have trouble doing this, you can install a blog or forum to your site to make content sharing easier, yet still indexable.

All SEO specialists have these guidelines in mind and as long as you have these in mind as well, you won't need to hire an SEO specialist to optimize your site because you can do the most important parts yourself using these tips and techniques as a guide.

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Website Copywriting: 3 Things You Must Do If You Want To Make Sales



By Denise Oyston 

Website copy writing is one of the key skills to either outsource or learn about quickly, especially if you want to leverage the growing trend of online marketing.

In today's market more and more of your potential clients are looking online for products and services. Latest data suggests that over eighty percent of consumers look online for a service provider. On top of that just last week. Garter announced its latest research findings that nearly ninety parent of people look online to validate what they are buying. Now that can be either a product or service.

This can be through reviews, articles, blogs, social networking, press releases and peer review. If this is the case then surely it makes sense to give you and your company the best opportunity to make an impact, through appropriate website copywriting.

The truth is many business owners don't always appreciate the rules of good copy writing online. That is it needs to inform at many different levels. Remember 'selling' online is not face to face. Instead you have the power of the written word, perhaps some visuals and if you are a little more advanced video.

In a short space of time you need to establish for your website visitor 3 key things

1. They are in the correct place.

That your website does actually provide the product or service that are searching for. Let me give you an example that I am sure has already happened to you a couple of times. i.e. your website does actually provide what they are looking for. For example if you are a training company in Manchester it actually is Manchester in the United Kingdom rather than the United States. I know this might sound crazy and yet it happens all the time.

2. You understand their problem.

This is really key point that many na�ve new online marketers don't appreciate. Good website copywriting can make this happen literally within the first sentence. Engaging with your customer in this early stage can give you a customer or client for a long period of time. Let's be honest as a human being one of our key drivers that matters to all of us is to be understood. By speaking into what is going on for your potential new client, they will actually 'get' that you do at a deeper level than most people appreciate.

3. You have a product or service that can help them.

Logical I know and yet many people miss this part out. In the old selling school days this was known as features verses benefits. The feature is what it is and the benefit what it actually means to you. In selling school I learnt the phrase which means that. Here is where good website copy writing can come into its own. It is all about making the features and benefits relevant to what your potential client is going through at the time.

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