Archive for August, 2008

Getting Keywords Right

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

People use the search engines in twodifferent ways. They usually tend to be for either buying or researching.
Key phrases used by people researching are therefore
different to those used by people looking to buy. This means that when choosing keyphrases for your website you need to think
about what sort of traffic you are looking to attract.

If you are looking to purchase products like clothing then you will use keyphrases like Buy Paul Frank Clothes or Buy Paul Frank T-shirts as these terms include brand names and the type of clothing. If they were looking to find out about the history of the company or more about the designer then the search terms used would be similar to About Paul
Frank Industries or Paul Frank Designer.

This is not true for all businesses and products. If a user already knows the product id number then they may use that to search for their desired product. Someone searching for a Vitalograph Emergency Aspirator might use the keyphrase (M1830) Vitalograph Aspirator as it includes the product number. A term like this will probably return a list of web pages displaying the desired product.

There are also some search terms that cover both research and buying traffic. Keyphrases like these relate to both people researching and people looking to buy.For instance someone who was looking to research into local web design and search engine optimisation companies is likely to use terms like Web Design Salisbury or Web Design Wiltshire. These terms are also likely to be used by someone who is looking to use the services of a web design company or search engine optimisation team.

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My experience of having a website created and properly search engine optimised.

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Having worked in the retail business for some time I was looking to expand my business by setting up a site to advertise my produce and sell it to bigger businesses that might use it. Because I live in the Salisbury area my first consideration was okay ? Web Design Salisbury? how am I going to get the site that I want made and properly marketed.

After searching for several articles on the web and discovered that I would require a site that was properly set up to make it simple for the person arriving at my site to discover what they required. I also found out that once you have your site how you want it to look you need to get the thing discovered in the search engines. Which meant that it didn?t matter how much work was done on the site design, if the customers you needed to see your site don?t look at it.

I got in touch with a web design business that had been personally recommended to me just outside of Salisbury and they were able to not only design the site so that the business was reflected in its best light but made the site very easy to navigate around. The months that followed saw a big rise in sales with the Internet marketing team was getting the site in front of the relevant buyers in the search engines and the work then rolled in it was brilliant.

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