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Everyone knows that the future of most businesses is tied to the internet don’t they? The sad fact is that most business owners whilst understanding that they need to have a website don’t really understand what it is supposed to do and why they need to have it. The sole purpose of a website is to make your business more money. Whether that is indirectly (for credibility) or directly (through sales), the website must pay for itself.

Websites need to be simple to navigate yet easy to buy from. The first step, however is to make sure that they can be found on the internet. With over 200 million websites on the net right now, it is little wonder that most sites end up in the nether regions and never get visited. You need to target customers with surgeon like precision as people search for exactly what they want. In many cases to make things worse, they are also looking for the information for free. Some will buy from another store for as little as 1p difference in price as well.

What words do people put into the search box when they are looking for businesses like yours? Think about the words that you use yourself to find businesses then try and find your own. Make sure that you absolutely understand first hand what your customers want. This has always been true in every business. Find out what people want (or search for) and then give them what they want.

If you try looking for your own business on the internet, you will probably find it without much of a problem. The real issue is that most people don’t actually look for a particular business, rather they look for a solution to a problem. For example, people looking for a search engine optimisation expert in Bridgend will look for something like “seo Bridgend” rather than a particular company (unless of course they were looking for that company specifically).

Get the on page and off page search engine optimisation sorted out for your own website. If you don’t know what this means then please get some serious research done as your business will suffer otherwise. Your competition is wise to this and if your sales are suffering right now, it could just be that your website needs to be sorted out. Ignorance is no longer an excuse, if you can’t get it done yourself; there are loads of people who can sort it out for you. Just be sure who you are trusting with one of the biggest assets in your business.

About the author: Glenn Hughes operates and owns Seo Cardiff, a search engine and internetdesign Cardiff specialist. Helping local Cardiff businesses to get found on the internet Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service

Press releases are the secret weapon of the savvy internet marketer. Many people are put off by the thought of having to write something that seemingly everyone in the world could see but there is no need to panic. If you don’t want your boss to see what you’re doing in your spare time, you can always use a pseudonym. Press releases are little understood yet powerful methods of getting your message to masses of people.

The key in a press release is to make the subject that is under consideration to be newsworthy. Magazine and online editors are bombarded daily with thousands of seemingly newsworthy items yet most of them are nothing more than a sales pitch for the product or service involved. Make your press release genuinely interesting and you are well on your way to success.

Press releases can end up being syndicated. This means that other services pick up the news from a master authority site or feed. This is really useful for you as you can reduce the amount of work done by sending your press release out to the best sites and then other sites will pick up that information from them. A word of warning though, the authority sites are very picky about the content that they accept. Make sure your release is genuine and will interest readers.

Content in a brief document is really important. Start by writing a compelling headline that people will read. How to is always a good way to start a headline as is something like, the secret of. A headline should entice the reader to know more about the article being written and should also include your main keyword phrase. This is a sneaky way of getting additional search engine juice to your fast improving website.

Press releases are short documents. Around 300 words seems to work best so don’t be too short or too long with your submission. Short enough to get the point over quickly yet detailed enough to be seriously considered is a good thought to hold whilst writing your press release. Think carefully about formatting as well. A series of short paragraphs similar to this article works very well as it hold information, is easy to scan and gets then point over quickly with little fuss.

Glenn H is a freelance search engine optimization expert, working with local businesses in the UK. If you are looking for Cardiff computer services or indeed in SEO in Cardiff then please get in touch