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Making The Most Out Of Your Websitewww.edgeonemedia.com
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Is The Web Working For You?
Making The Most Out Of Your Website
Making The Most Out Of Your Websitewww.edgeonemedia.com
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• For Those Without Websites– Provide some basic knowledge from which
you can begin to develop a valuable web presence.
• For Those Who Don’t Love Their Website– Provide you with tools and tips to improve
your website. • For Those Who Love Their Website
– Let’s Make Your Site Even Better.
Goals
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Three Areas For Web Promotion
• Looking Out– Optimizing your visibility on the web.
• SEO (Search Engine Optimization)• Traffic Building
• Looking In– Optimizing usability for your visitors.
• Designing Your Site• Featuring Your Content
• Looking All Over– Cultivate a community.– Broadcast your message.– Utilize your relationships.
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WARNING:Technical Content Ahead
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Looking Out
Is your website visible? Basic Search Engine Optimization
For Improving Search Engine Results
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Looking Out - Google• Google gained 3%
market share from 2006 to 2007.
• Dominates search engine market.
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Looking Out – Basic SEO
• Submit your website search engines and directories.
• Use Descriptive Title Tags
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Title Tags
Making The Most Out Of Your Websitewww.edgeonemedia.com
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Looking Out – Basic SEO
• Submit your website search engines and directories.
• Use Descriptive Title Tags• Use Your Meta Description Tag to
Your Advantage
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Meta Description Tag
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Looking Out – Basic SEO Cont.
• Image Alt Tags• Clean Up Sloppy URLs
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Sloppy URL
Nice URL
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Looking Out – Basic SEO Cont.
• Build Incoming Links– One Way Links– Reciprocal links don’t add value– Acquire one way links fast is through
the use of paid press releases (prweb.com)
– Find out who links to you by typing the following into a search engine:• Link:www.yourwebaddress.com
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Looking Out – Pay Per Click
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Looking Out – Pay Per Click• Choose Keywords • Set Budget
– Click Budget– Daily Budget
• Your ad appears based on:– Click Budget– Daily Budget– Effectiveness
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Looking In
• Does Your Web Site Look Good?• Does Your Web Site Feature Your
Best Content?• Is your most important content being
viewed?
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What did we do?
• Gave the site a visual identity.• Made all of the site’s content
readable by search engines.• Added news and events feature so
they could update content with regularity.
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Website Real Estate-Main Page
• Prime Real Estate– Top 400 Pixels
• Suburban Real Estate– Next 300 Pixels
• Unwanted Real Estate– More than 1000 Pixels
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Looking In - Web Statistics
• Look at the data – Web Statistics show the following
– How many people are visiting the site?– What pages they visit when they are
there?– How many pages they visit?
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Looking All Over
• Develop an email list and send e-newsletters
• Keeps you in touch with your past, current, future clients and customers
• Breeds Familiarity• Makes it easy for recipients to visit
and pass along.
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Looking All Over• Blog Early, Often
– Adding new content creates more keyword density, turning your website up in more organic searches
– The more you update the site, the more search engine robots will visit to see what’s new
– A blog will create an rss feed that allows your users to subscribe to your updates and allows you to syndicate your content across the web.
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Looking All Over
• Develop Viral Marketing Strategies– Create videos and post them on
YouTube.– Write articles for other newsletters and
websites.– Offer a free service
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Review• Look Out
– Optimize your site so your site is visible on the web.
• Look In– Make sure your website is optimized for
usability and marketability.• Look All Over
– Make it sticky.