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Why Give a Lot of Thought on Search Engine Optimization




By viojieley gurrobat

When you own a web business you have to be aware that a strong web presence and high brand respect means higher sales and increased profits. But if your website ranks beyond the top twenty positions in the search engine listings you have a small hope of getting people to check out your site. No matter how good your products are and how exciting and stunning your pages are, you won't still be able to get the required traffic.

There are essentially three ways for a customer to get to your site. First is for the customer to type your website address. The only problem with this is that people have to actually know your web address in order to use it. The second way is for people to link to your site from other website. Again, the problem with this is that the other sites must grant you permission to post a link on their site. The third method is for a customer to find your site through a search engine. And this is how you plunge into the world of search engine optimization.

Consider this situation: if you get a visitor to your site from a search engine, chances are the person is interested in your products. Although there are instances that some high school kid happen to stumble on your site because he was writing an essay on candle making. Just the same there is a possibility that he also wants to buy candles from you. You just simply have to convert this visit into a sale.

When it comes to online marketing, search engine optimization is the key to obtaining visitors at very little cost. To increase your website's traffic, it should rank within the top positions in the results of the major search engines. You also have to make sure that your site keeps its ranking over along period of time.

However, search engines consider dozens of aspects to rank sites. For instance, Google says they have more than a hundred standards in their ranking system. Basically, the search engine has to be convinced that your site contains the information that the browser is looking for. For this purpose you need a lot of keyword rich content. If you have lots of articles with information on candles but you have not used the keyword candles often enough, you may lose the battle. Apart from keywords, you can boost your search engine rankings by using links on your site. This convinces the search engine that yours is an important site therefore more likely to have useful information.

Search engine optimization is, thus, one of the important marketing tools available today. So what are you waiting for? Work on those rankings to get the customer that you need. Remember that for every second that you waste you could be losing out on those all-important visitors that could translate into customers for your business.
 
 
About the Author
Viojieley Gurrobat loves readings books in her spare time. She writes stories and poems about anything under the sun. For comments and suggestions kindly visit http://www.webplacements.com/

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