Just a bit about search engine optimization.

I’ve spent a number of hours today visiting and reading the websites for firms in a radius of 1 mile from where I sit to examine how many of them have some sort of online promotion, either in the shape of ad-words or search engine optimisation and I have not discovered any yet. This gratifies and dismays me.

It gratifies me since, as somebody operating an affordable SEO company, I clearly look out upon a target rich environment. It upsets me as if I can only work with a small number who regard their website as a crucial part of their company, there are a number who are just never going to reach potential clients, and might as well have not used their money on a website at all. And the expenditure may not have been well spent anyway because I have looked and it appears that if they have paid a software consultancy to create their site and perhaps host and maintain it for them, the sites are not even catalogued with the search engines so the probability of somebody using keywords to find the site are practically nil.

1 of the most basic procedures of search engine optimisation is to make certain that the website that is being promoted is indexed with all the big search engines, and I would advise anybody, even if they aren’t getting specialist search engine optimisation supporting and promoting their site, to make certain they do that. It is very simple and they should also be certain that their software consultancy creates a sitemap to include in the registry so that the search engines can at least examine the site and familiarise themselves with all pages and the relevant keywords.

If we imagine a company’s website we can view it as coming into one of two types. Either it enhances a retail arm to the company in that it creates sales or can be used for possible clients to read before to contacting the firm with a view to doing business or registering an interest. The other category is one that is only for informational or ‘read-only’ use and maybe offers a news service but is not a crucial part of the work of the business.

If the firms falls in any way outside the second class, then some type of online marketing is important since from some of the sites that I have studied today, there is nothing deficient with the firm or the website but they come nowhere in comparison to their local competitors which is found by the search engines by utilising some of the keywords used by the website. That is bizarre and by employing an affordable SEO company to promote their site up the results pages they will be more likely to get sales as a result of their website than they currently do. They don’t even need to get me to do it, though obviously I’d be please if they did, but from the point of view of the local economy it would be preferable to maximise their website which is, all things considered, a business asset. For goodness sake use it!

It could be that they merely don’t know how and regard it as an inefficient blunder if nobody goes to them via the internet. What I reckon they don’t comprehend is that nobody is going to come across a site by coincidence, it must be pushed and search engine optimisation would be the way I would advise it gets done.

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