Free SEO Report for Business Owners

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1 How to Grow Your Business Online Increase Traffic Increase Sales Increase Profits Free SEO Report for Business Owners

2 Introduction Imagine you have customers and orders flooding in because you are sitting at the top of Google, within the top 5 positions for a multitude of phrases. Wouldn t that be nice? However, the real truth of the matter is that you probably aren t and so all of those customers are doing business with your competition. Having a nice website just won t cut it for you or your business if nobody can find it and so you are going to need something to get customers to find your site and become a client. Where are you ranking for the key phrases that your customers are typing into Google, Yahoo and Bing? For example, if you are a Plumber in Perth, are you ranking on page 1 for Plumber Perth, Plumbing Perth, Emergency Plumber Perth... and so on. People who search the internet with these types of phrases are looking to buy. The search engines have suddenly become the main source of targeted marketing for any business and now you can plug in to traffic that will enable you to grow your business through more leads, sales and profits. Here are 7 benefits of being at the top of the search engines: 1. You get more leads, more sales and more profits. 2. You can tap new niches you were not pursuing before through effective keyword selection and then promotion of these online. By harnessing more traffic online, you are able to generate more profits. 3. You can launch new products and services. In many cases these products and services may have been overlooked and/or passed over because you had no way to drive traffic to initiate sales. Now you do. 4. Steady cash flow... by having consistent leads you will have consistent sales which bring consistent cash flow. 5. You can now use this new found service to fight a bigger foe. If you have a smaller business, you can compete online easily with larger companies. This service can rank anyone at the top of the search engines. 6. Branding... by commanding top spots in the rankings for many, many keywords, you will be able to put your company on the map and brand yourself as a force to be recognized and as an industry leader in the eyes of your customers. 7. You are able to use this service to dominate any market you want and so create unlimited expansion.

3 Search Engine Optimisation and Why You Need It Search engine optimisation or SEO is the process of moving a website up in the search engine rankings. This is achieved by understanding what it is the search engines want to see on a website and giving it to them. Basically, the more popular your site, then the more that Google and the other search engines will like you and give you high rankings. Translated to the online world of the internet, that means the more one way links the search engines see coming into your site, then the higher they are going to rank you. The power is in the one way links coming to your website, however, for this process to be really effective, there are a number of things that need to happen first. Any SEO company worth their money will engage in the following procedures to ensure that you get a comprehensive SEO program that is going to work, ongoing for a very long time. Here is a blue print to developing a successful SEO strategy that will see your business grow in leads, sales and profits. There a four stages to this strategy: 1) Keyword Research and Market Analysis 2) Website Optimisation (On Site Optimisation) 3) Linking Service (Off Page Optimisation) 4) Data Analysis and Website Reporting Stage 1 Keyword Research and Market Analysis The internet has become the Garden of Eden for businesses to market themselves. Never before in the history of marketing has there been a better opportunity for businesses to target their customers. The successful SEO campaign, therefore, starts with a careful analysis of your market, finding out what keywords people are using to find your service. You can do this research yourself by typing in a broad keyword and then becoming more specific. For example, let s take the plumbing keyword again. If you are a plumber in Perth, then you would expect to be ranking for plumber Perth. From there you might include keywords like; plumbing Perth, emergency plumber Perth, leaking tap Perth, blocked drain Perth and so on. You can search for these keywords by using the Google Keyword Tool which can be found at: Make sure that the results are tailored to English, Australia before typing in the keywords that you want to search for. Here, you will be able to various derivatives of the keywords you type in, the number of searches each keyword gets and the amount of competition. Make a list of the keywords and then make sure that they are buying words. That is, ones that people are typing in because they need your service or product. The best ones will be those that have relatively high search volume and low to moderate competition. As a result of this research you now have a targeted list of keywords that you can use to generate leads and sales for your business. No more hit and miss marketing. Can you now see the benefits of marketing your business online?

4 Stage 2 - Website Optimisation (On Site Optimisation) To enable your site to be easily readable by the search engines, you must have each page set up in a certain way. This means that Google and the other search engines can see that each page on your site has all of the correct information on it, in a certain order and with the related keywords clearly positioned in specific places. This process is called on page optimisation. You should not optimise for any more that 1-2 keywords as you don t want to confuse the search engines. If you do then you will have real problems getting the website listed highly when you start the external linking. Each page on your website should have the keyword in the following places: Title Tag Meta Description Meta Keywords Within an <H1> tag Included a number of times in the text on the web page Within an internal link If you are not sure about this, we can get it done for you, or your web designer will be able to do it. Stage 3 Linking Service This is the strategy that is going to get your website ranking highly in the search engines. Basically, this process enables you to get a number of one way links to your website, for the keywords that you have optimised the website for. The links should come from a number of places and all linking must appear natural. In other words, the search engines would more than likely penalise you if you sent a few thousand links to your website in a few days. You really want to have good quality links coming to your site from a variety of sources, so that everything seems natural. Here are a range of places to be linking from: Blogs Other websites Press releases Forums Web 2.0 sites Video marketing Articles These linking strategies will give you the best results.

5 Stage 4 - Data Analysis and Website Reporting t: e: admin@linxhurricane.com w: A successful SEO campaign must include constant website reporting. As mentioned in stage 1, online marketing enables you to formulate targeted campaigns toward your customers. Consequently, you are now also able to collect valuable data that will give you a very clear picture of how effective your marketing is. You will be able to measure your results and make the necessary adjustments to improve your traffic and sales. For example, you will be able to choose more keywords to target, giving you a broader coverage online and this will give you even more traffic that you can convert into sales. You can add offers to each page and track the number of people who take them up. A must have tool for your website is called Google Analytics and this will give you all of the data that you need to track your traffic. Here are the main data sources we like to use when collecting meaningful data for our clients: Unique Visitors This will tell you how many visits you are getting to your site. You will want to see this statistic increasing each month. It is not good enough to measure your traffic with the number of hits. Unique visitors are the people who come to your site to buy. Length of Stay By analysing how long people are staying on your site, you can determine how well they are finding what they want. Generally speaking, the longer people are on your site, the more likely they will be to buy your product or use your service. If you notice that people are leaving your site quickly, then it is telling you that they are not finding what they are looking for, meaning that you need to re-visit the layout of your website to make it more user friendly. Specific Pages Visited By tracking the specific pages that your customers are visiting on your site, you have the ability to substantially increase your profitability. By monitoring the pages most visited, you can put a strategy in place to increase the conversion rate. This can give you a huge return because a simple increase from 1% to 2% will double your profitability without increasing your traffic. Keywords Customers Use To find You By analysing the keywords that your customers type in to find you, you can build targeted pages to increase traffic to your site. The more keyword pages you have on your website and ranking highly, the more traffic you are going to attract to your site. More traffic = more conversions = more sales. Monitor What Your Customers Are Buying Although businesses tend to look at their weaknesses and try to improve them, it is more effective to look at what is already profitable and work on improving that area more. This will give you great leverage, building your profits faster. How To Choose An SEO Company SEO companies have sprung up almost overnight in the past couple of years and so you need to be careful of what to look for when choosing a company. Prices will vary considerably as will the level of service. You will invariably get what you pay for, so make sure that you look for the following characteristics when considering an SEO company:

6 Professional You have hired an expert company who communicates with you regularly, completes its work on time, takes a pro-active stance in regard to getting you seen online and shares a vision for your business. Don t accept anything less than the very best as you are paying for a service and should expect results that lead to increased business online. Transparency A good SEO company will be able to explain simply what it is that they can do for you. Not only that, but they will be able to educate you in the procedures that they will be using. SEO is not rocket science, in fact it is quite a simple process, as long as the rules are followed. Proven Success with a Number of Clients A good SEO company will be able to show you proven results. Your business is your livelihood and you need to know that the SEO company can produce the results you desire, to grow your business online. You may even ask to call some clients to make sure they are happy with the service. Individualised Service Every business that markets online is different. An excellent SEO company will be able to set up a specific strategy for your business to make sure that you get the best opportunity to grow your business as fast as possible online. The SEO company should be able to provide a comprehensive service from start to finish and should have a number of tools to assist with the growth of your business. Linxhurricane What We Do Armed with an arsenal of proven SEO strategies that work, Linxhurricane can get you to where you need to be in the search engines on page 1. Our mission is to provide a range of strategies designed to get you seen online and therefore, more leads, sales and profits. In today s online world, you must have a clear and effective plan to promote your business through SEO. If you don t then your competition will be all over you and taking your clients from under your nose. No Contracts You expect us to provide a professional service that is going to get your site seen on page 1 for a number of keywords. Therefore, we don t lock you into any contracts whatsoever, choosing instead to work with you on a month by month basis. If you don t think we are doing the very best for you and getting the results you need, then you can sack us at anytime. What Are You Waiting For? If you choose to take the knowledge learned from this report and get your own SEO moving along, then that is great. Good luck and we sincerely wish you all the best in your online promotion. However, if you think that a professional SEO company can do the job better, then choose wisely, taking into account all of the things that have been discussed in this report. We are just and or phone call away, so feel free to contact us and we can get you started with an effective SEO service that is going to get you seen online.

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