Finding Your Niche

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Posted on 14th July 2010 by suem in SEO Tips

A website is a great cost effective marketing tool. It’s always working providing information about your products and/or services. But are you reaching your target audience? To properly market your website and increase search engine rankings, you may want to do some research to help you identify your customer.

Before you can do that you need to look at your product or service. What does it offer the consumer?

  1. Does it appeal to a specific consumer or a wide market?
  2. Will it save them time or money?
  3. Is it a luxury product or an everyday necessity?
  4. Is it high tech or does it appeal to a simpler lifestyle?
  5. Does it provide excitement or security?

Now you know what your product or service brings to the table, but do you know who will be interested in it?

  1. What is their age range?
  2. Are they male or female?
  3. Are they married or single?
  4. What is their education level?
  5. What is their income?

Once you think you’ve identified your customer, start doing Internet searches using keywords and phrases that they might be using to find your business. Can they? If not, find what keywords your competitors that have high rankings are using and make the necessary changes to your site. Pinpointing your target audience will not only help with search engine optimization, it can maximize your hard-earned dollars spent on marketing and advertising campaigns

Use Email Signatures to Increase Website Traffic

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Posted on 22nd April 2010 by suem in SEO Tips

Sue Matheson, Account Executive
InSight Design Studios
url: www.insightdesignstudios.com
blog: blog.insightdesignstudios.com
e: sue@insightdesignstudios.com
p: 860.693.8929

When you receive an email from me, this is what you see. It does not matter if the email pertains to business or something more personal. During the course of the day, I send out 100 emails or more. It isn’t just my name and contact information people are seeing. They are also seeing live links to my blog and website. I am constantly surprised how many business people still do not use their email signature option.

Even if you’re doing everything right, organic SEO takes time and can be a frustrating process. Hopefully you have hired a professional to build and code your website and submitted it properly to search engines. You may even be blogging and tweeting.  If you’re still not happy with your search engine rankings, one of the easiest ways to get your URL out to the masses is including it in every email you send. You never know who may be interested in  learning more about you and what you do. What does this mean for your business website? More exposure, more visitors, better rankings.