If you’re interested in getting more traffic to your website, selling tons more products and services, becoming more popular with your friends and the Master of Your Universe you’ve come to the right place!
Well, maybe we’re exaggerating just a bit.
But if you do want to get found by more people who are looking for your products or services, we can help.
Here’s how…
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Sign up for our 3-part series that explains how to find the best phrases that people are using to search for what you offer. The key to growing your business online is to identify phrases that enough people are actually typing into Google and then learning how to associate your website with those search term results —- in essence, how to be the answer to the question!
For example, if someone is searching for a way to transfer their home movies to DVD and you offer film to DVD transfer services, you would want your website to come up on page one of Google for the search term “DVD transfer services.” Sounds simple enough, right? Well, the concept is simple but how you get there has a few twists and turns. This 3-part series will be your roadmap to reveal the best ways to find the keywords that matter to YOU and how to use them to your advantage.
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We just launched an all-new site for Glassworks, a do-it-yourself, glass art studio based in Morristown, NJ.
Designed in partnership with Parsippany-based agency Ruby Window, the new site was built on a WordPress content management system and included a robust calendar of events that was hooked into a PayPal payment system to allow the business to accept credit card payments and deposits online.
The new site also incorporated Facebook integration and a full photo gallery to allow Glassworks to show off their wares and fun projects and events.
When Dwell Summit, a Breckenridge, Colorado, property management and long term leasing company wanted to get their brand new website, created by KL Creative Design, on page one of Google, SamsonMedia.net was glad to help.
This was actually a textbook example of how effective SEO can be for dominating local search.
The process began by determining which keyword phrases actually dovetailed with their business and services and out of those keywords which ones had enough monthly search volume to make them worth pursuing. After our research, we selected some keywords, such as property management services and several others and had the pages designed around those phrases with the right balance of keyword density, ALT tags and META tags (which still matter to some degree despite what you may have read).
After about two weeks, Dwell Summit is now in the top 5 organic search engine results for phrases such as property management services colorado out of over 22 MILLION results!
Sweet!
Have you claimed your free listing on Google Places?
If you’re a retailer or professional who has a physical place of business where customers and clients can go, you qualify for a free Google Places listing. The reason you need a physical office or place of business is because Google Places is part of the Google Maps program and is tied towards your geographical address and location. If you work from home or you’re a consultant who meets at the client’s location, no problem. While every Google Places listing must have a mailing address, if you work from home or you are a mobile business you can specify a “service area” in the sign up process and choose to hide your physical address.
The advantages are enormous.
You’ve seen those little red push-pin tags when you do a search for a local business? Those are Google Places listings, which are coming up at the top of the search engine results, below the paid ads but above the other “organic” listings. And did I mention they were free?
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR GOOGLE PLACES LISTING
Go to www.google.com/places
You’ll need to login to Google or set up a Google account if you don’t have one already, and then “claim” your listing.
Chances are you already have an “unclaimed” Google Places listing floating around out there just waiting for you, the owner, to come by, verify that the site is indeed yours, and then update it accordingly.
Google verfies your ownership by calling you on the phone with a PIN number that you’ll paste into the site to confirm you’re really the owner, or, mail you a post card with the PIN. My suggestion is to set up the Google Places page from your place of business because the verification phone call with the PIN number will come within seconds of pressing the submit button and the process can be completed within minutes. When I set up my Google Places page for SamsonMedia I remember it startled me a bit how fast the phone rang with the recording on the other end reading the PIN, so be ready by being near your phone.
Once you have your Google Places listing you can actually list stores hours, upload images, logs and even videos!
This is one of those low hanging fruit SEO tactics that are a complete no-brainer. So if you haven’t set up your Google Places page for your own business, take a few minutes and do it today!
Check out the SamsonMedia Google Places page HERE.















