Sunday, October 7, 2007

Striking a Balance between SEO and List Building

Striking a Balance between SEO and List Building
Traffic to your site is the very lifeblood of internet
marketing. With over a million new web pages being created
daily the chances of a potential customer finding you at
just the right time is very slim.

Therefore building a search engine optimized site is
important in order to get a rating close enough to the
front of the list a user will find your site before tiring
of the search or finding their purchase elsewhere.

First off, SEO is designed to get "leads" to your website.
It is only after you get them to view your information that
they may become customers. It is impossible to know every
nuance of what the search engines look for but there are a
few firm rules for improving your ranking.

Firstly you must use exacting html code. Removing
depreciated code elements will make your page more modern
and relevant and easier for the spiders to read. Your text
must contain a fair number of your keywords in appropriate
places.

Be sure to include keywords in the alt tags of photographs
and headers. Also make sure you have the proper information
in your meta tags and make sure that links to and from your
page are relevant to the content.

Never rely solely on search engine traffic to make your
site prosper. Too many variables can come into play. For
one, the search engines routinely change the details of
what they are looking for and also the actual words typed
into a search box may or may not fit the exact wording of
your keywords.

However good SEO is it is still a random source of viewers.
With a list of opted in e-mail clients you have a direct
market to people who have already shown an interest in what
you are offering.

Some care should be shown to exactly how you use your list
since it is a valuable commodity for your business. Unless
you have just one product you will want to group your list
into subcategories of user interests.

If for instance you have a group interested in software you
would want to avoid sending them advertisements for
hardware and electronics. Focusing on their interests will
keep them from beginning to see too many uninteresting
emails and possibly unsubscribing from your mailing list.

Your list can form a group of people loyal to your product
or ideas. To increase your list and create a viral growth,
it is possible to engage your existing clients to spread
the word for you. An irresistible product that can be
offered for free or a huge discount if your customer has
referred someone else to you can win even greater suport of
your efforts by those who use them.

Building a good SEO page is a one time task. Updating data
does not require extensive reworking. List building on the
other hand is an ongoing process.

Even if you only update your site infrequently, an hour a
day working on advertising to drive new people to your
signup squeeze page will eventually grow your business to
new levels of success.


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