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Learning The Ropes Of Small Business Internet Marketing

By Robin Marks


Small enterprise internet marketing isn't about building a website and "they will come". They can only come after you get into the practice of working on your internet site continually.

First your website must contain keywords, but if you sell shoes, you've got to understand that if somebody puts the word shoes into a browser, millions of results will come up. Here's where longtail keyphrases come in, which are essentially phrases that somebody will put into a browser, for instance "leather shoes". So if you have leather shoes as a keyword you are going to be somewhere in the result. Long-tail keywords are crucial in getting found on the internet and Google provides a keyword tool that you can use for free to find these often-used phrases.

If you put in the words "leather shoes", Google will display an inventory of phrases built around that phrase and also tell you how often a specific phrase is utilized on a monthly basis. It's a good free tool to begin with, but there are other, better keyword finders that may be used, but you have got to pay for them. The Google keyword tool will return phrases like "red leather shoes", "where to buy leather shoes" etc, and it is up to you to choose which long tail keyword phrases to use. It's best to go for somewhere in mid range of search phrases, say three thousand to six thousand / month, any amount of searches greater than which will have too much competition. Your aim is to get on page one of Google's search results which is not very easy, despite what a lot of marketing "gurus" tell you.

Google likes web sites that are constantly updated and contain relevant content. So get into the practice of writing at least a 500 word article every few days, which is keyword-rich. Use your keywords inside the initial few words of your opening passage and again in the closing paragraph. Depending on the length of the essay, use the phrase a couple of times more. If you're employing advertising through Google Adwords, this will also help Google to serve better targeted advertising to your website.

Then there are backlinks. These are the curse of any website owner. There is no easy method to get around building good relevant back-links. Do not ever consider purchasing back links from a link farm, Google knows all about them and will pay little attention to them and will even penalize you for them. There are no Wordpress plug-ins for building backlinks, only ones that get you backlinks through "do follow" blogs.

Article marketing is a great way to get back-links as most article directory websites allow you to have one link out to your internet site, so again, you'll have to be prepared to submit helpful and topical articles, either directly to an article marketing site, or to many thru a "hub" which will distribute your articles to several sites for you. This doesn't cost a lot and could be a time-saving way of doing it.

Little internet business marketing involves many other techniques we can't cover here but the above points are the most vital and cheapest for getting started.




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