When was the last you time you used a search engine? No doubt, search engines are one of the most useful products of the internet. With just a click of mouse, recipes, books, movies, documents and pretty much anything that you can think of are delivered to the user in fraction of a second.
Which is why, firms and businesses have seen the opportunity and are continuously maximizing the potential of search engines to aid and further advance their projects and products through the use of search engines, or SEO marketing, to be more specific.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO capitalizes on functions that make a website get more traffic or visitors from the sea of webpages on the internet. Therefore, SEO marketing uses this strategy to attract visitors to their company or business website, which in turn gives them potential customers.
This marketing strategy is very useful for businesses, especially for the ones that are newly established and are looking for more traffic. Basically, in this type of marketing, search engines are used to bring in more traffic to a website compared to the competitors or other websites. This process makes use of keyword research or targeting specific words that firms would like to market.
The importance of audience and traffic to a website can be likened to the “tree falls in a forest” effect. Since it is a dense and bushy forest, no one will know and hear a tree that falls if no one is around. The same goes for websites. The internet is like a vast ocean of information; if a website doesn’t get any visitors, it will be as good as dead. Unlike humans who are able to discern the quality of an object, search engines don’t have the capacity to do so.
A website’s credible and interesting content will not be noticed if it is not popular in web searches. Therefore, increasing its chances of being “searched” and “found” with the help of search engines and the right keywords is among the best ways through which the business will be able to reach out and get noticed.
Keyword Research
If a company’s target is to make more people visit their Spa and Resort, these will be the keywords they need to work on. However, people may search for spa and resorts that are within their desired area. Therefore, making your keywords more specific will increase the chances of targeting people within your area of business to visit it.
So, making the keywords, for example, spa and resort west hawaii, will be better. And when more people are able to visit the business’ website, the potential surge of customers is not far. This is the main focus of SEO marketing, identifying the target keywords and tailoring the website according to the advantages and disadvantages of search engines’ processes. Check out SEOmoz article “How To Do Keyword Research” to learn more about keyword research.
SEO Techniques in Action
When the process of identifying target keywords is completed, incorporating some SEO techniques should be next. This is done by designing your website in a way that it effectively campaigns your marketing target. The website should not only be aesthetically appealing but should also house great content related to your business.
The title tags or the title of your page along with your website’s heading tags and your page’s headers should contain the keywords you’re targeting. Keyword density, which is the total number of times you mention the keywords in your website’s content, is also important. Use the keywords but make sure that they do not appear stuffed and the website should still provide credible information regarding the business despite the occasional mention of the keywords. Use the free keyword density analyzer tool from SEO Book to analyze your website’s keyword density.
It may look like a fake advertisement site if the keywords appear very often, basically losing the essence of your content. The name of your domain or URL can also add to optimization of the website if it contains any of the keywords. Though it does not give much boost to the optimization process, it helps as well.
These simple techniques do not comprise the whole marketing strategies of SEO. Gaining an audience and a stable number of visitors will not happen overnight. It will be gradual; and making your website known and rank higher in search results will take more efforts and critical thinking, but at the end of the day, it will be worth it. The basis of this type of marketing is very simple and economical.
Within the comfort of your home, you can make a beginning for a profitable businesses. Knowing what people are looking for, their tastes and preferences, and maintaining a stable positive reputation among other websites, search engine optimization can be used as a marketing strategy that can bring in lots of benefits to a business and may even speed up its development.
The future may be uncertain for different firms and businesses. But in this time of continually evolving technology, being competent on the web is one sure way to maintain a good foothold in business.
Sathishkumar that’s a great succinct article. Given that you are writing about SEO I was intrested why you have not used headings to break down the text and grab just a tiny bit of SEO juice from these headings in your article.
chris @Bizfix.co.uk
Hi Chris, Thanks for your compliment. I am really glad that you have like the article. Concerning your query, I have written this article more for the readers rather than the SEO juice. Moreover I don’t like to compromise the quality of article by adding extra title’s which I couldn’t add while writing it.