Impact Web Results

Many clients have been concerned that their website ranking in Alexa.com is dropping.  They want to know why?

As the economy stabilizes and the business climate begins to improve, many business owners are turning to their website to provide new customers.  People are spending more time, money, and effort on their websites and this is increasing the competition for traffic and ranking.

However, the basics are still in place…good “long tail keyword phrases” tailored to your website will continue to drive traffic to your website.  Content rich new pages will expand your website and “feed” the google robot.  Coupons for discounts or free stuff are always very popular.  They also provide a solid way to track the effectiveness of your website in delivering new visitors.  And people are very cost conscious so coupons offer a real benefit to visitors interested in your product.

Blogs continue to be the number one way a website can attract visitors and deliver new traffic.  The ease of this communication method is unprecedented.  Of coarse some folks have moved on to twitter, or “micro blogging”  Twitter is not just for getting up with your pals.  It can be a powerful force in your marketing if used correctly.  You can “tweet” that you are offering a seminar, or getting ready to release a new product or service.  The topics are endless but the technique is to use “tweets” to give a “quick heads up” note on something happening in your business that visitors would find relevant and useful.

There is that all encompassing word “relevant”.  It is the driving theme behind all of google’s strategy for search results and ranking…relevance.  If you can add content to your blog, develop new web pages and publish new content that is fresh and relevant, you have a winning strategy.

We can help you with these and more techniques and concepts.  “Is your website working as hard as you are?  Do you know your traffic stats?  We can deliver the results you need to improve the effectiveness of your website.  Contact us to see how…why wait…call or email us today.

Bill Miller, webmaster

website hosting, development, and online marketing

When the Internet was opened to everyone, it became an important part of our every day lives.   Many business owners wanted to get a  presence right away.  In the late 1990s and beyond the year 2000, most small to medium-sized businesses wanted to get their own site to boost profits quickly.

Although this was a smart move for virtually every business, it frequently did not bring the desired results.  So what’s the problem?  Why do most business websites fail?

Simple.

Most business websites are created by web artists who create a beautiful visual presence that inspires their business owner clients and promises an impressive image online.  The thinking goes that this beautiful website is certain to bring in many visitors and rack up enormous sales.

Image is helpful, but unfortunately it is not everything.  Now that the Internet and the World Wide Web are playing an even greater role in the lives of the everyday customer, having a business website is incredibly important.

Your business site should look great.  Image does help.  Customers are more likely to enter a real-world store if the building looks nice and the entrance is inviting.  But what if that nice looking restaurant was very difficult to navigate once the customer is inside?  What if no one is ready and waiting to greet the customer and lead the customer to a table?  What if the menus are unavailable or poorly organized?  I suspect that business would suffer and customers may look to dine elsewhere.

As you might imagine, the same rules apply to the business web site.  An effective business site must look nice AND channel  your customers with effective and proven marketing built into the design.  And perhaps more importantly an effective business site must include lots of behind the scenes elements that encourage major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN to redirect customers to your business website.

While graphics are important they are not essential.  There are many examples of websites that are commercially successful but not so visually appealing.  How can this be?

The secret lies in understanding how the search engines really work…they can only read text!  Yep, the search engines skip right over your beautiful blue box with the shading and perfectly placed text because the artist designer created a “graphic element” that a human can read and appreciate, but not a search engine.

The internet is littered with tens of thousands of websites that artists have designed for hefty fees that receive little or no traffic.  And another secret is that the owners of these websites don’t even know that the search engines are “blind” to these beautiful websites.

So what is the answer?  The best approach is to design your website for humans AND search engines.  This means that beautiful graphics may not be the best approach for your business website.  After all your goal is to attract and convert visitors to customers, right?  Well then imbedded search engine friendly text with high keyword density is the food of the search engine.

I have reviewed many business websites and I find the most basic mistakes all too frequently.  The meta command for the website description is totally blank.  And the keyword meta tag is blank too.  The keywords are buried in a graphic and there is no alt tag loaded with a description of the graphic or photo.

The designer has not provided any food for the search engine bot.  No way for google, yahoo or msn to index the website since all of the content is graphical.  Consequently, the website receives a traffic rank of “no data”, and no traffic is redirected by the powerful search engines.

I can provide a free evaluation of your website and show you the basic design elements that have been overlooked or omitted.  We can develop a plan to convert the graphical elements into text that both humans and search engines can feast on.  Text that is keyword rich with long tail keyword phrases that surfers have frequently typed into search engines.  This approach will entice the search engines to index your website and turn on the flow of free traffic.

Ready to Get More Results from your Business website?

Bill Miller
Web designer and Internet Marketer
www.ImpactWebResults.com

If you are looking for a local Marketing Consultant in the Raleigh, NC area, you have come to the right place.

I specialize in helping local business owners get more results from their business website to transform their online business and increase sales and profits quickly.

Do you know how many visitors your website is getting?
Does your website need to improve its marketing impact?
Are you not converting visitors into buyers?
Is your daily visitor traffic too low for generating significant sales?
Do you need help attracting local visitors using the internet?

These are all areas where I can help. My approach is very straightforward and tailored to your needs. I am a strong believer that web marketing – and any kind of marketing – is a creative process that requires a long-term relationship with short- and long-term results.

If you’re in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill or any of the surrounding communities, contact me today to find out how I can help.

Its a good question.  Do you know the answer?  Are you getting the visitors to your website that will provide the business and revenue you are looking to generate?  If your like most website owners, you worked hard to develop your personalized “look and feel” for your web presence.  You reviewed the copy, helped design the graphics all the while dreaming of the traffic and revenue this site would produce once it was launched!

But the business needed to get going and the customers had to be served and somehow along the way you forgot about your website dream and did what you had to do to keep the business running.   You assumed that since you were getting customers that your website must be working hard for you.  Probably not!

We help business owners breathe life back into that website dream by making the website Search Engine friendly.  We develop and embed keywords, and we drive geo-targeted traffic to your business.  We increase your website rank and we provide potential customers to your website and increase your revenue.

Why wait?…contact Impact Web Results for a free consultation  to learn more about putting your website to work for you.  Together we can make your website work as hard as you do.  Contact Bill Miller and find out how we can energize your web presence and get things moving in the right direction, quickly and easily.

There is no cost for an initial consultation and you just might wake that dream up.