Top 10 - Good SEO Tricks

Here's the top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tricks


#10 - Use keywords in your URL's. Words that people use to find you in a search engine. These words help your site rank for those key words. Example: yourdomain.com/your-service/
#9 - Use a descriptive Domain Name - Be certain that people know what you do by looking at your domain.
#8 - Use logical and simple Navigation - The search engines must find your internal pages to rank them.
#7 - Create Theme based Pages - based on keywords you select
#6 - Use tags and meta tags correctly - Search engines can use meta data to better understand the page. Title, Description, Keywords. Dont confuse the search engines. Don't overuse.
#5 - Use keyword rich anchor text - Example, Dont use the word link when linking to your page. Link to your page by using the keyword for the page that its heading to.
#4 - target good effective keywords - Understand your potential search - what words do customers use?
#3 - Create Good Original Content - Unique content, don't copy!
#2 - Linking, Linking, Linking - Inbound, Outbound, Internal. It's very important. Google built itself with link analysis. Anywhere you can link from helps.
#1 - Know what you are actually up against - Don't think about beating the engines. Write good content and you will prevail.

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Brand Equity - Small Business

Notes from Grow Smart Biz Conference - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm 9/29/09 - Washington DC

Brand Equity - as a Small Business owner, you are nothing without your brand.

When you are out there building your relationships, you need to have something backing you.

Inside Out Branding - How you execute as a small business

Don't refer to your logo as your brand. As a small busines you dont have the money to market like larger companies. How does your company stand out from the rest is how well your company can perform.

5 Steps of Building a brand

• Have a Good if not great product / Service
• Know the needs of your customers
• Establish relationships
• Take no with a "but". "can we still have coffee, can I still call you".
• Listen to what your customers say.
  

E-Mail marketing - Branding online - from John Arnold, Constant Contact.

Keep your brand simple, it needs to translate seemlessly.

How do you find new customers?
Find your market through research. Identify target audience. get qualified leeds. Thats the challenge. Give value to your customers. Make sure your marketing efforts pay off and you achive more than you put out.

Educate your customers. Depending on what you do, you may offer something nobody else does, therefore you really have to educate, teach.

Lower your costs by using key technologies on the web. SEO Search engine Marketing, RSS Feeds allow you to syndicate and spread the word about your offerings, use the social marketing sites available (facebook, twitter, blogs, etc).

Your website needs to be an assett and empowered salesman to your company.

Have value with what you offer.

• Valuable offers - give incentives
• Facts, Give facts on how you seperate from your competition.
  

Personality in Business - Grow Smart Biz Conference

Notes from Grow Smart Biz Conference - 11 am - 11:30 am 9/29/09 - Washington DC


Personality in Business

Doing business today is different than it was years ago. Different ways now to market what you offer. Besides web sites, Add Personality to your business:

Through your website.

How many of you have a website? Your About pages is in the top 5 of what website visitors look at. Your visitors want to know about your company. They want to like you / your company and what you offer. Best way to come up with "about" content is to write it and read it to a normal person who may not know what you do. See what they say, what follow up questions they may have.

Show a Sense of Humor so people can relate easier.

Like in life, a man may may want a woman who understands his joke. Woman say, "He makes me laugh".

Apple actually marketed "humor". For instance for their ipod shuffle, the second point is "Do not eat Ipod Shuffle". Apple marketing determined the ipod shuffle was as small as bubble gum so they were able to market the humor in dont eat your ipod shuffle relation.

A smoothie company printed on the bottom of their container, "stop looking at my bottom". They didnt need to do that but used that so people would appreciate a good laugh and share the laugh with someone else.

A restaurant in Vegas has a "Gambler's Special". Its a steak dinner, baked potato and 3 shrimp for $7.77. This item is not on the menu, its just a word of mouth special.

Most important fact here is relating to your customers, coming up with ideas that will get passed around from people.

Customer Loyalty

Because your customers are buying from you today are not necessarily who will buy from you later. Customer Loyalty. Customers telling their friends about your products / services is of upmost importance.

#1 effective way to market is through word of mouth. Word of Mouth Just happens.

Now with tech you can help build word of mouth. Social Marketing. Creating and contributing in networks, forums, etc will help you. Dont focus on the tools, focus on the underlying information. Allows you to connect with people.

Notes from Grow Smart Biz Conference - 8:30 am - 10:30 am 9/29/09 - Washington DC

We will have a full review but here is some key notes from the beginning of the "Grow Smart Biz" Conference.

Interestingly enough, 69% of small biz under 100 employees showed profit in 2008

Small Businesses that used internet services correctly excelled and stood out against competition.

Reduce expenses for websites by choosing a company that can provide turn key solutions and Creative Approaches. Not just a website. Productive web presences need a complete solution and careful planning.

Common Barriers of Website Development

• Don't know where to start
• Fear of Cost
• Fear of time commitment
• Lack of Technical Knowledge

Here are the answers to the barriers relevant to VBWebSites and you, hopefully our next client.

• Don't know where to start? - Contact VBWebSites to get your website planned correctly.
  
• Fear of Cost? - Websites can get costly, only one way to find out and that is getting a quote.
  
• Fear of time commitment? - This is often a task and we have ways of making this web presence possible. However, we will of course need your help.
  
• Lack of Technical Knowledge? - Trust in VBWebSites to help you achieve what you need. We have the know how and understanding.
  

Team up with a website development company that can provide everything your company needs to be effective on the web.

Companies that use 6-14 Internet tools do 41% more than companies that don't.

Such tools as:

• email 64% have email - @yahoo @hotmail, etc is not carrying your brand
• website - 50% have a company website - How many are actually functional
• Online Directories - Public Directories
• Search Engine Optimization Plan - 26% have a plan. Leverage the best marketing tool
• shared networks
  

Our Promise
Great looking websites
Ready for Search Engines and prospective customers
Fit to Grow your business

The web is 20 yrs old this year (2009)

Internet allows unprecedented opportunities for small biz- less risk and Extraordinary opportunity to have a website presence. Reach out!

Specialized forms of online advertising works for all industries.

Kids are Back to School and Parents are back to work!

We took are two girls, Hailey and Hannah (Photo to Right) to school this morning after a wonderful summer of basking in the sun and enjoying everything the summer offers.

Now it is time to get back into the grind as adults and parents so next summer is equally as fun or better. We as adults have to work hard and work smarter to make sure we can provide the best lives possible for our children who don't quite understand "The Real World" nor should they have to at their young ages.

I personally am excited about the future and most of all helping my clients achive the best website presence possible. The VBWebSites team will be delivering unprecidented solutions and coming up with ironclad plans so that our clients benefit from being on the web.

Brady Behrman
Presdint, VBWebSites.net
757-271-8293

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VBWebSites will develop your assisted living website that is not located in VA. If your company needs expertise website design and development, Contact us. To review the Commonwealth Assisted Living website, click here. The VBWebSites solution includes a full custom content management system, news manager, events manager and more. Get a Quote for your assisted living facility website development. This solution is the ultimate presence you could possible desire for your assisted living facility or network of communities.

Additionally we can setup Pay Per Click campaigns targeting only potential visitors in a specific region or area.

So if your company is located in a state below, we will work with your company and no other in your state. Assisted living website design and development exclusive to your state:

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Our solution and completed project can be found here (Online Payment Processing).

Many Companies already have a system in place from providers such as Calitech, Callipay, Checkrelay and others.

The VBWebSites solution can be fully integrated into an existing design or new professional website design.

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