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<p>Wondering how to get your website seen? If you are a small business with big plans you probably had a website built and expected the orders to roll in. You may have already tried some Pay Per Click advertising and even paid to be listed in some online directories.<br />r<br />rHopefully you have figured out that people shopping online don’t go through a directory to find you. They go to a Search Engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN Live. They type in a keyword or phrase describing what they want and the search engine gives them a list of websites, starting with what the search engine believes are the most relevant results.<br />r<br />rIt is these results, rather being found in the first group of them that drives traffic to your website. No matter what you have to offer the key to success online is to be found on the first page of these search results when someone is looking for what you have to offer.<br />r<br />rThe great thing about those search results is that they are working twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty five days a year. The down side is that if you can’t be found in those results, your neighbor across the street could be looking for what you have to offer and you’ll never know.<br />r<br />rIf you have tons of traditional business experience the things you have used in the past to promote your store are going to be pretty much useless online. For instance, before the internet, it was not unusual for a business to spend thousands dollars per month on Yellow page advertising. When the internet first went public that business had to be sure that those ads pointed to their<br />rwebsite. Now after only a few years, most households don’t even know where their phonebook is anymore.<br />r<br />rIf you have a traditional store, say sports equipment, you may have a few selections for athletic shoes. In your store you may display these shoes according to cost. The typical online shopper is not looking for every shoe you have to offer. They are searching for one brand and one style at every store that offers that one shoe.<br />r<br />rA local sporting goods store owner who complained that he would typically get one of the high end shoes from his supplier and it would never sell until he discounted it at the end of the season. Where that same shoe would have customers lining up around the block in the big city, hoping to get a chance to buy that pair of shoes as soon as it was delivered.<br />r<br />rPutting his inventory online allows the kids in the big city to find the shoes they want regardless of what small town store has them. It takes a bit to wrap your head around the concept, but suffice it to say that the online shopper is going to be more specific about what they are looking for and they don’t really care where your store actually is as long as you can get the product they want delivered to them.<br />r<br />rIf you are a traditional store that wants to sell your products online, it is going to be vital to your success to offer your products from the top down rather than trying to use your website to sell the stuff you could not move in your store. The structure of your website has to break down products and categories and present those images in an appealing way. A good Denver Asphalt SEO Outsourcing Outsourcing will be able to research the products you have to offer that match up with the hottest searches performed and help you to target your campaign.<br />r<br />rAgain, just having a cool website is not enough. You are going to need to build that website in a Search Friendly manner. Let’s use the shoes one more time. Say you put a great picture of the latest shoe on your website. It is the very one that kids across the country would go get a job for. But if all you have is a picture, the Search Spider can’t read your picture. It is not human. It searches for text. Text in the form of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and in the form of content on your page. These are spider food.<br />r<br />rThe Search Spider goes through your site, following your linking structure, recording what it finds and takes it back to

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