To begin creating more business for a website the following are the broad items that need to be considered:

• Customer Research for Internet Marketing in Colorado Springs
• Keyword Research and Search Engine Optimization
• Website Design and Selection
• On Page Meta Tag and Coding Optimization and Web Flow Design.
• Social Media Reference Development
• Strategic Link Development for internet marketing results
• Bookmarking & Directory Services Propagation
• Google Places & Maps) Listing and Optimization for Local Colorado Springs Marketing

Customer Research It is absolutely essential that every business know who their customers are (demographics) and how their customers think about them (psychographics). To properly get to this important step, a business has to identify what the customers look like – age, sex, income, education, location, and any special demographic features, identify why their business appeals to its customers. How do customers think about a business? What makes them like one business over another? What processes do customers use to research a business? These ideas need to be crystal clear to get to the next step.

Keyword Research and Search Engine Optimization The next step in internet marketing is to decide what words customers use to find a business. This is called keyword research. This step is critical to successful Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Google has some tools to help with this, but it takes some savvy to use them. For instance, most criminal lawyers want to use the keyword “criminal law”, but research will tell you that “criminal lawyer” has three times the traffic for the same degree of competition. In the loan business, everyone should have one or more “mortgage calculators” and feature them prominently in their keywords for Google because “mortgage calculator” outperforms “mortgage broker” by about 5 to 1, “mortgage lender” by 1000 to 1, “mortgage banker” by 2000 to 1, all with less competition.

Website Design Choosing a web design can be fairly straight forward. The more standardized the web design the more likely it is to be “Search Engine Optimization” friendly. There are some very cost effective templates available that in the hands of a good web design firm can really shine for a business and its local marketing.

Choosing a template vs. a custom web design means that much of the on-page meta tag and coding optimization has already been done. That can leave more in the budget for graphic design and link development.

Most SEO companies will tell you that usually in a competitive environment, off-page link development is more than 50% of the battle. It comes in several forms.

Social Media Reference Development is a general area that is not exactly the same as creating a Facebook page or A Twitter account. It is developing links in various social media that have what Google and others call “authority” and having those links point to your site. This results in higher ranking and therefore more traffic.

Quality Strategic Link Development for internet marketing results in other types of sites is vital. Google has a ranking system that makes some links more than 500 times as powerful as others. It is important that the links be developed properly and with the correct sites or a negative result is possible.

Bookmarking & Directory Services Propagation
Google and others depend on trusted partners for information and ranking in their algorithms, so propagating a site’s information to Google itself and to its trusted partners results in better ranking and correct information for the site and to Google Places and Maps.

Google Places (and Maps) Listing and Optimization for Local Marketing
Recently, Google has made two major changes to the way it ranks sites. One of the ways is to include Google Places in its ranking system so correct optimization of Google Places (and Google Maps) is critical to successful ranking and better traffic. The other major change was to include more social information in developing the search algorithms.

Frequently, people ask what about the other search engines? The answer is that Google is a nine hundred pound gorilla. Google generates about 2/3 of the search engine traffic and in second place is YouTube, also a Google property. The rest of the traffic is split among hundreds of search engines, most of whom mimic Google.

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Stay tuned for the full review soon.

In February of 2010 Yodle announced the roll of their Yodle Organic/SEO service offering which starts at a industry low $400/mo as an additional fee to any per per click management services offered by Yodle.  

According to Yodle their Organic product offers a combination of off page and on page seo that includes:

•  Personalized consultation with a dedicated marketing specialist to optimize a site for organic search rankings
•  Website designing and coding with search engine prescribed best practices
•  Video creation and syndication to sites such as YouTube, Metacafe and others
• Custom content creation and syndication across the web
• Distribution of a local business profile to Google, Yahoo and Bing and over 75 local search sites and directories.
• 24/7 access to a performance dashboard that measures progress against goals and much more

Read the full article here: http://www.sean-h.com/2010/12/03/how-will-recent-google-changes-affect-yodle-organic/