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Yes it is, if you want to get noticed! While trying to make your website more prominent, sometimes buying ads or word-of-mouth will be very beneficial, but it would hard to get by without search engine optimization (SEO). It seems everyone uses search engines these days to find websites. When someone searches for your products and services in one, you want to be right near the top.

Search Engine Optimization, is altering your business’ website so that your site is more likely to be prominently featured in searches. The idea is to try make a link to your site one of the very first things a potential client sees when she enters your product into a search engine. Plenty of professionals offer SEO services, but if you want to check it out yourself, hear are some things to consider:

First consideration: You have to have a SUPER website! No web business can survive without one, so why lead people to your site if there’s nothing to it? If you have a good site then it will be much easier to naturally get search engines to rank you high in searches.

Second consideration: Think about what words you want to be the focus of your website. People are going to be entering a few words when they make a search, and you want to ensure that your site focuses on the words potential clients will likely use when looking for your services. These words and phrases are called “keywords.” When determining which keywords to use as your focus, you can try to use simple logic to start with. If you were selling refurbished pianos, then you’d definitely want your site to show up when someone searches for “refurbished pianos.”

You can’t just figure it out on your own-no matter how smart you think you are. You will be much better off to do some research and find some statistics as to what keywords people are looking for every day. There are some free tools (and some not-for-free tools) that you can use online. Make a list of the keywords that will be the best focus for your SEO.

Which leads us to the third topic to think about: your titles and meta tags. It is crucial that your most important keyword is placed in the title and header of your website. Another thing you can do is alter the “meta tags” of your website. A meta tag basically gives information about your website that isn’t always visible to web browsers. You can enter your keywords in a meta tag that some search engines use to discover keywords that are appropriate for your site. If you don’t know how to alter titles or meta tags, search for HTML resources on the Internet.

Fourth consideration: Make sure your website’s text mentions the keyword repeatedly! If you never talk about a keyword, no search engine is going to think that it’s very important to your site. You can overdo it, but a frequently used keyword is seen as important to search engines. How important can “refurbished pianos” be to your site if you hardly ever mention them? Hopefully you made a great website with a lot of great content so getting your keywords in there will be a no-brainer.

If you’re going to try and optimize your own site, these steps will be a good launching board. A few small changes might make your site more prominent compared to competing businesses.

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