Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Website Promotion: What Works and Why?

By Raam Anand

Does your company has it's own website? If not, then it should have been there yesterday! Customers are extremely technically savvy nowadays and most prefer to find vendors online. If you do not have a company website then you are leaving a big share of your profits on the table.

Once your website is ready, the next task would be to promote your website. This is also known as website promotion so that you will tell your target audience that you have built your online real estate that they can use to learn more about your business.

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Getting your website in the search engine results page, within the first 10 or 20 results is the closest definition of website promotion. Rather, we can say it is the primary objective of website promotion. If you want real visitors to visit your website, you need to promote your website in various ways. All such 'tasks' that drive visitors to your website is collectively known as Website Promotion.

SEO or search engine optimization is the most common and often the most difficult way to promote your website. Most people visit their favorite search engines to find what they are looking for. So, it is obvious that you need to optimize your website content for appearing in the search engines.

Avoid These for Top Rankings

During the early days, search engine optimization was just stuffing your web page with all possible keywords and phrases so that the search engines could pop up your website when someone searched for those terms. So, to avoid such nonsense results, the search engines have now developed sophisticated algorithms or formulas.

Avoid having too many keywords on a single web page. Optimize the content of each page on your website with as few targeted keywords or key phrases as possible. Building a web page for 2-3 keywords with a keyword density of 2% is found ideal and works well in getting your website indexed quickly by the search engines.

Do not forget to do some research and make a list of specific and unique keywords that your target audience may be interested in. The more unique your keyword is, the more rankings you can achieve in the search results. If you are selling "pets", do not use "pets" as your keyword. Use more specific ones such as "pet parakeets", "pet food", "pet behaviour" etc. to make your website stand out. The more targeted your keywords are the more real customers you get (instead of general visitors).

Though SEO or search engine optimization is the most common way to website promotion, it is highly advice to add other methods to attract more targeted visitors to your website. This include banners, pay per click, video marketing, article publishing and so on. By combining various website promotion methods, you can achieve top rankings in the search engines too.

Website promotion helps to get your website in front of more targeted people. In other words, when people are searching for certain terms or keywords, website promotion can help bring up your website into the attention of those people. More the reach, more the people. More the people visiting your website, more the profits. It's that simple. So, can't afford to skip promoting your website. - 16463

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