Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Search Engine Promotion

By Frank Palani Madan

Search engine promotion is the most effective way to advertise your business online. You can reach millions of paying customers by being popular with a few major search engines. The key to effective search engine promotion is to use the tools and techniques that work.

There are some things to think about when creating the content for your web pages. You want others to be able to find you easily in the search engines for the keywords related to the products you sell. To do that proper search engine promotion is the key. Below are some tips that will help you with this. An important part of a search engine marketing campaign is the content of your web site, and the keywords in that content. It's all about content and keywords. The right content with the right keywords can reward you with a steady flow of traffic which will bring in steady sales.

When writing the content for your site, you should consider keywords that customers would type into the search engines to find your products. These are the terms that are most relevant to the products you sell. They can include your business name, products name, or a combination of both. Once you have established the keywords your content will contain, it's time to work them into you content. Do not over use them or place them where they don't belong. Remember, you want the content to be natural. Keywords are short phrases or even just one word that describes the theme of a piece of content such as an article on a webpage or blog post. Search engines send out 'spiders' that 'crawl' thru content of webpages. Keywords are words or phrases that users search for.

Keyword placement on your pages is an important consideration. When you choose keywords, you will usually come up with a primary keyword phrase, then one or more secondary phrases for each page. The primary phrase will be the phrase used most often on the page and that is most relevant to the content topic. You should place it in the first line of the a few paragraphs on the page or article you write, then a few more times throughout the article. You don't want to over use it. The secondary phrases should be placed throughout the body of the article. Be sure the keywords sound natural in the content.

Generally, a keyword with 10,000 searches per month is going to be one that you can compete for getting to the top of a search engine . Instead of spinning your wheels marketing for those who are searching for a one word that gets 15 million searches per month, create multiple campaigns that market to more targeted keyword phrases.

Generally I like to have my articles to have at least 350 words of content in them with the upper limit hovering around 500. For a 350 word article you can expect to use your keyword phrase about 4 times maxim where a 500 word article you can use the keyword a couple more times to squeeze the keyword phrase in without setting of the keyword spamming alarms off.

There are many search engine promotion opportunities available to you and the list keeps growing. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends. Look for tips that will help you get more pages on top of the search engines.

About the Author:

No comments: