Getting people to visit…well that’s another story.

If your company doesn’t get more work, you might not keep your job. You need your company website to outrank your competitors. How about filling half the Google/ Yahoo/ MSN/ AOL page with YOUR website?

Most Web surfers find business and services by searching on one of the search engines, such as Yahoo and Google. You can maximize the sales that come through your Web site by optimizing how you are listed on these search engines

Visible proof of just that for Maryland small businesses

The ONLY MD Search Engine Optimization firm that Guarantees MULTIPLE rankings in top ten is Frederick Web Promotions

SEO= I get you to occupy the high ground (useful in any battlefield situation) what YOU do with the high ground is up to you. (if your sales copy sucks or your offer sucks I cant do anything about that, all I did was get you to out rank your competitor) You paid me for that and I gave it to you. the rest is up to you

For Example if you work for a small business and want your companies website to rank at the top of Google and Yahoo, ON THE FRONT PAGE, meaning in the top ten search results given by the search engines,

… and you were wanting LOCAL Customers

People from YOUR county, people that lived close enough to hop in their car and buy your widget/order your service and put MONEY IN YOUR CASH REGISTER TODAY…

Best Return on Investment for advertising online you’re going to get ANYWHERE is local Google advertising.

What is meant by the term: Social Network or Social Media?
Starting with MySpace’s popularity, social media is the type of online communication where people often shift fluidly and flexibly between the role of audience and author. In the not too distant past, only people with the webmastering skills of html and javascript could hand code a webpage, WEB.2.0 tools enable anyone without knowledge of coding, to post, comment on, share content and to form communities around shared interests.

Off-Page Optimization is a fancy way of saying this:

“If you want a website to RANK, you’ve got to build hundreds of ‘Other Websites’ that link TO the website you want Ranked in the first place”

AKA Link Building to maximize the original website’s performance in the search engines for target keywords related to the page content.

A Blog – Social networks are the new mini-sites. It is good to spread your content around. Hording all of it on your blog is not a good move. Readers have to find your blog first and one way they do is by reading what you have written on a social network that already has traffic. Now if only I could practice more what I preach.