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The Importance of Writing Articles.
1. Writing Articles add VERY INFLUENTIAL Links to Your Site.
Writing articles is one of the best methods for obtaining one-way back
links.
They also function as valuable pieces of search engine bait because search
engine crawlers are frequent visitors to many of the high-profile article
directories.
If you want to get the spiders quickly crawling your site, let us submit
an informative article to a site like EzineArticles http://www.ezinearticles.com/,
or to GoArticles, http://www.goarticles.com/
or Article City http://www.articlecity.com
We offer article writing and submission
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THE THREE BASICS/CONCEPTS OF A SUCCESSFUL Business WEBSITE:
First off an explanation of successful: A successful website
should make you more money by helping you get more listings and bringing
you buyers.
In-order for your website to help you get more customers,
the following three basic concepts, need to be in place.
The first step is obvious—have a website.
1. A Business website
will function as your online office or meeting place.
For example,
a prospective customer can go to your site, to see the latest products/pricing
as well as get more information about what you offer.
Your website should help
your customers make informative decisions.
This leads me to a very important concept of how to think
of a website and the part it plays in your business.
A website is an (your) online sales presentation.
And like all sales presentations-there is a limited time frame in which
to establish that your business is the one your prospect should be dealing
with.
Therefore you website needs to quickly demonstrate real benefits
to your customer. (Customers really only want to know what’s in it for
them)
Conclusion: A website will be an integral
part of your business.
2. The second concept of a successful
website.
People have to be able to find it. TYpically by going on a search engine
(Google preferably) and looking up relevant search phrases or keywords!
Explanation-Lets say you own a printing company
in Cocoa Beach Florida, which is in Brevard County Florida. Some examples
of relevant search terms or phrases that prospects could use would be-
A-Cocoa beach printers
B-Cocoa beach printing companies
C-Brevard County printers
D-Brevard County printing companies
For those of you that already have web sites. If you do
comparable searches in Google, based on your business type and geographical
area, does your site show up?
If
so, what page of the results? (The first page is obviously where you
want to be, but the top three pages are what you need to shoot for)
So, the big question, is how do we get our site to show
up in the top pages of Google?
Search engine optimization-which involves lots of factors. Google
looks at-
• The time frame your site/domain name has been up.
• The quality of your site content (what it offers the user)
• The links back to your site from other relevant sites.
• The page-titles, descriptions and keywords, both in the page content
and the coding in the background.
• In addition, search engines want to see that a site is maintained and
not static (meaning new content is edited/changed regularly)
• In a nutshell-if you have a content rich site that other sites want
to link back to and your site is an ongoing project-with time you will
be rewarded with page position.
So, for now the Second important concept to having a successful
website is having one that can be found.
3. The third step or concept of having
a successful website is what I call the "So What Factor."
Lets assume you have a website and it can be found doing
a relevant search term.
Ok-now the customer sees it in the search engine results and clicks on
it.
The site opens up and the customer is now looking at your online sales
presentation.
Based on what he sees, he will either click out of the site or he will
spend time looking at what it has to offer. If the customer likes it,
they will go deeper into the site meaning they will look at other pages.
So, the question is, what do you have to offer, that the other business
websites don’t.
One way to think about this, is imagine a customer
asks you, "Why should I deal with you? Your website has to take into
account any of these questions a customer will have and you need to address
them in your site.
These can be reflected in establishing credibility, integrity, return privileges,
guarantees etc.
Conclusion:
- Have a website.
- Have a website that people can actually find.
- Have a website that once found, delivers the goods by benefiting
your customers needs and wants.