Sunday, November 15, 2009

What is SEO and why your business needs it?

Asad Zeeshan

Search Engine Optimization, commonly known as SEO, is a simple technique with which customers can see your website when they search. SEO is the process of increasing the volume and quality of traffic to the website from search engines. SEO can increase your rank in the search engine results, and as high ranking as you can have at search engine, as much high traffic you will get. Let’s see an example by searching “loans” in Google you can see that search result has some paid and some normal listings. These top normal listing names are there in the search because they use SEO technique professionally.

SEO is very important for your business because, it is a very good and needy marketing strategy for businesses. It not only brings in relevant traffic but also shows your business in a non-biased search, under organic listings. One advantage is that SEO brings more traffic than to pay per click, and free from any kind of click frauds. Let me discuss some of the good business benefits from SEO.

Benefits of SEO

Increase Brand awareness

SEO technique can increase your brand awareness by giving your business a global profile. Internationally, people search about different brands and correct use of SEO can list your business in the global search.

24/7 Sales and Marketing

SEO provides your business a 24 hour 7 days a week marketing and sales opportunity without stopping. It is marketing your business every second and with each search about your business type. SEO gives better ROI than to any kind of marketing system.

Long term positioning

Your business needs SEO because it gives your business website a long term positioning. Once a professionally designed and optimized website is placed, your ranking on organic listing is consistent for long term.

Important factors for SEO

SEO is very important for your business and there are key factors for the successful and professional SEO Implementation.

Keyword Research

As you may know that lots of your potential business customers and other researcher do search about some keywords and key phrases, and get their search results from search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN etc. It is very important for you to find out about the keywords which people use, before implementing the SEO. You can find out about these keywords from Google or other search engine by signing an advertising account with them. It is possible that people still may not hear about your business. Correctly added keywords with SEO technique can present your business in their searches.

Competitor Search

When you find out the keywords and key phrases than the next thing you need is to find about your competitors. Use these keywords to find your competitors, and note down four important things like total number of competitor websites, importance of the websites, and links attached to them.

Now you have understood the importance of SEO technique for your business. You must apply all these things as mentioned if you know them, otherwise hire a professional firm to do SEO for your business.

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