SEO marketing strategies

Search engine optimization (SEO) helps to boost web site traffic. Having a good SEO campaign will attract new clients and increase your web site traffic. When you establish a web site, search engine crawlers will scan the site searching for certain keywords. These keywords are used by customers when they are using the search engines to find a particular product or service. There are about 900 unique searches done on the major search engines, with that in mind it's time you started implementing SEO at your company.

The first thing you need to do is make sure your web site is listed on the search engines. If you are trying to drive traffic to your web site traffic, consider using pay-per-click advertising to boost your numbers. You want to be listed on the first page in the search engine results, preferably the top 2 spots. So how can you increase your search engine rankings? Here are a few tips:

• Structure the content within your site to be "crawler friendly"


• Develop a link popularity campaign


• Build your inbound links (this is when you get people to list your site on theirs or you get traffic from advertisements)


• Update your site often, new content is what the search engine crawlers look for


• Routine maintenance


• Tracking and website ranking reports

Of course your goal is to stay one step ahead of your competitors. If you are new to SEO, consider hiring an outside company to handle it for you. They will know the right keywords to use that will drive more traffic to your site. The other benefit of a professional company is that they normally list your site on theirs to increase your inbound links.

If you do not have a web site, or you do not take a look at it daily, now is the time to start. Your web site is the best marketing tool you have at your disposal and it hardly costs any money. Make sure all your links are good (broken links will cause the search engines to reject your pages). You also need to add new content to your site to make sure it is up-to-date. The search engine crawlers are looking for new content and they will raise your numbers if you take good care of your site.

If you participate in pay-per-click marketing, you will have a list of keywords that your advertisement will appear with. Using these keywords, create a page on your site that talks about this information. For example, if you are in the business of behavior-based safety, you will have a list of the following keywords:

• Behavior-based safety


• BBS


• Workplace accidents


• Accident prevention

There are hundreds of other keywords that go along with behavior-based safety. When your customers type in these keywords, your advertisements will appear, but the web sites that have content related to behavior-based safety will appear in the search engine results. Just make sure you don't overload a web page with keywords. If you have 200 keywords on the page, the search engine crawlers may start to overlook your page.

Another way to boost your rankings is to title your pages. The search engine crawlers will connect people to that particular page if it contains the right keywords. There are hundreds of other SEO strategies to use; these are just a few of the easiest ones to try. If you don't start to see an increase in web site traffic, take a different approach to your SEO strategy. Banner advertising and blogging are great ways to boost your web site numbers and it helps to establish your online image.

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