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How To Get
More Visitors To Your Website
©2005 by Charlie Cook
When you were five or ten years
old you may have played the game
of hide and seek where the object was to avoid
being found. The
longer you could stay hidden and the harder it
was to be
discovered the better.
As a business owner or someone responsible for
marketing a
business you want to do the opposite. Instead of
remaining
hidden from view, you want to make it as easy as
possible for
members of your target market to find you again
and again.
You may have a PhD, worked for big name clients,
provide
outstanding service or have a new ground
breaking product but if
people can't find you it is tough to build
revenue. What you
want is to be found so prospects contact you and
you can convert
them to client status.
What happens when someone is looking for a new
product or
service? More and more customers and consumers
use the internet
to search for the goods and services they need,
to the point
that 'google' has become a verb. They may also
use the search
engines provided by Yahoo, AOL and MSN.
A prospect types in a set of keywords, your name
or your company
name into a search engine, with Google being
used by far the
most frequently. Can they find your website? Go
to
www.Google.com and try the following three
tests:
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1. If a prospect hasn't heard of your company they won't be
searching for your firm by name. Instead they will be
searching
using keywords that describe the problem they want solved or
the
type of information they are looking for. If they are
looking
for ways to motivate employees, that's what they will type
in
the search box. If they are looking for adventure vacation
ideas
for Costa Rica, they'll enter that in the search box.
My prospects might enter, 'attract more clients', 'marketing
coach', 'web marketing plan' or 'web lead generation in
Google.
When they do, they'll find my site at the top or at least in
the
first 10-15 listings.
Type the problem you solve or the solutions you offer into
Google's search box. Is your site listed at or near the top
of
the listings? Is it even in the top 100?
2. Type your own name in the search box. Does your web site
come
up at the top of the page or in the first 20 listings?
3. Type your name and/or your company name in the search
box,
for example, "Charlie Cook" or "Marketing For Success". Did
Google find your site in or near the top spot?
If you aren't happy with the results of these tests, your
website needs work.
How to Avoid Playing Hide and Seek With Your Business
A Smart Domain Name
Choose a domain name that is simple and obvious or simple
and
memorable. If your company is called Bollard and Jones
Realty
(or whatever) try to obtain bollardandjones.com as your
domain
name. That way, a prospect who knows your company name can
type
it into their browser and easily find your site.
The simple and memorable strategy is to use your domain name
to
describe what you do. Once prospects have found your site
through a search engine, typing in the domain name will
reinforce the ways you can help them. For example
www.marketingforsuccess.com or www.printondemand.com.
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Keywords That Work
While they are many ways to improve your use of keywords on
your
web pages, you can boost your ranking in the search engines
simply by using your keywords in your page title tag, your
metatags and 4 to 6 times in the text on your page. Make
sure
to use them in normal, well-written sentences.
Flash and Splash
When you submit your site to the search engines, they are
looking for text. Pages full of pictures or with just your
company logo (splash pages) or mini-movies (flash
animations)
may look pretty but they won't help the search engines judge
what your site is about. In addition, research shows that
90% of
visitors find these entrance Flash and Splash pages
annoying.
Rather than move further into your site, most visitors will
leave. Avoid home pages full of pictures, movies or with
minimal
text. They may look nice, but they won't help people find
you.
Build Links
One of the best ways to boost your site's rankings and thus
get
more visitors is to get other sites to add links from their
site
to yours. An extremely effective way to do this is to write
articles and distribute them to sites visited by your target
market. Most site managers and 'webmasters' are hungry for
relevant content. Provide these sites content they want and
they'll be happy to use it and link back to your site.
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Stay in Touch
Offer an incentive to get site visitors to give you their
contact information, and join your e-mail list. You can also
follow up with a call or a mailing. Once a prospect has been
to
your web site, you want to regularly remind them of the
problems
you solve and the services you provide. Don't let your
prospects
forget you when they are ready to make a purchase.
Avoid playing hide and seek with your target market. Help
more
people find you and you'll grow your business. Tune up your
web
marketing strategy and your web site and you'll have more
site
visitors, more prospects and more business.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
2005 © In Mind Communications, LLC. All rights
reserved. The
author, Charlie Cook, helps service
professionals and small
business owners attract more clients and be more
successful.
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