Can Your Website Be Found By Potential Clients

Finding a poorly SEO'ed website on the web is like finding a library book without a card catalog system.

This post is Part Two in a series helping you figure out if your website is worthless.

Do you know if your website is currently search engine optimized correctly?

An easy way to find out is check your website stats and find out what people are searching for.

If people are coming to your site and buying your products and services or engaging with you in conversation, then stop reading. If you aren’t to sure or if you get only a handful of visitors per month, then keep reading.

Many people design a website and throw it up on the web without a search engine optimization strategy. Did you know that you can slightly tweak your web content with keywords and phrases and rapidly turn your web traffic numbers around?

Our goal is to help you get more relevant and targeted web traffic with a few simple steps.

Step 1: Determine keywords and keyphrases you would want potential customers typing in to find your site.

Let’s say you owned a wedding photography business in Kansas City. Pretend you are a potential client and think about what you would type in to find your services. Create a list of keywords and phrases. Here’s a short list I came up with: wedding photography kansas city, kansas city wedding photographer, photography studio kansas city.

Step 2: Determine how often search terms are searched.

I’m going to share with you a remarkable and free tool I use to check on how often search terms are searched. The Google Adwords: Keyword Tool will give you incredible information on how often search keywords are being searched.

I’ll start by looking up ‘Wedding Photography Kansas City’. You can quickly scroll down the list and see what other similar search terms are typed in and the frequency they are searched each month. The exact phrase wedding photography kansas city is searched 1000 times in April!

Step 3: Check out the competition for this search term.

By doing this search in Google I find out that 319,000 results. This is actually very low and would be a great search phrase to optimize your site for!

Step 4: Insert this search phrase into your content.

You can now begin placing this search phrase into your web content. Try to not over do it by inserting the search phrase too often. This can actually worsen your position in search engines. Be sure the search phrase is located in the title of your web page and included in the content of your web page. Try to not use the keyword or phrase more than once per paragraph.

By applying these steps when you write web or blog pages you can actively begin increasing your organic search traffic and gain relevant and targeted traffic.

This post is Part Two in a Series entitled, Is Your Website Worthless. Here is a list of upcoming future posts that will help you achieve value from your search engine marketing.

• Is your website properly search engine optimized?
• What purpose does your website serve? Is it an information repository?
• Do you have clients that visit your website to gain value information or insight?
• Has your website sat there untouched for many years with the same old content?
• What is your website’s purpose?
• Are you actively keeping your website up-to-date with new and interesting content?
• What is your goal with your website?
• Do you have marketing objectives?
• Do you have a mechanism to allow people to subscribe to your content?
• Do you have a way to notify interested parties of new content or products on your site?
• Is your website easy to navigate? When your visitors get there can they find the information they need easily?

Can your website be found by potential clients? Do you need help figuring this out? I’d love to hear your thoughts and answer any questions you may have about your own website! Please comment below and be sure to subscribe to receive future posts.

Thanks for reading!

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Is Your Website Worthless / Part 1

The web is littered with millions of web pages with many more thousands being added daily. So my question for you today is:

Is your website worthless?

How do we define worthless?

In Part 1 of  a series let’s answer that question by determining why people decide to create websites in the first place.

Most commonly, business owners decide to put up a website to give a little background and information about their company.

The business owner is typically highly motivated and wants to publish information as soon as possible.  In most cases, the business owner does no research about his competition and doesn’t truly consider what types of information his consumers would be searching for.

This is the most important part of the process when establishing a web presence. If you don’t do research and develop content that will #1:  please your visitors and prompt them to take action or plan to revisit your site and #2:  get indexed by search engines so consumers that search for your products will be able to find it.

Why are most websites worthless? They have crap content will never draw in the right visitors or once the visitors arrive, the content is not engaging and doesn’t hook the visitors.

This is Part 1 in a series that will help you reevaluate your web strategy and help you decide what steps you need to take to get the right people to your website using the right content. Here is a list of future posts that will enable you to turn your worthless website around!

• Is your website properly search engine optimized?
• What purpose does your website serve? Is it an information repository?
• Do you have clients that visit your website to gain value information or insight?
• Has your website sat there untouched for many years with the same old content?
• What is your website’s purpose?
• Are you actively keeping your website up-to-date with new and interesting content?
• What is your goal with your website?
• Do you have marketing objectives?
• Do you have a mechanism to allow people to subscribe to your content?
• Do you have a way to notify interested parties of new content or products on your site?
• Is your website easy to navigate? When your visitors get there can they find the information they need easily?

Is your website worthless? I’d love to hear your thoughts and answer any questions you may have about your own website! Please comment below and be sure to subscribe to receive future posts.