Sunday, November 4, 2012

Promote Your OnBine business

"In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running. If you stand still, they will swallow you." -WILLIAM NUDSEN JR
Your online business gives you the opportunity to sell products/services cost effectively anywhere in the world but your competition has the same opportunity. You should be forward thinking always seeking to improve on your strength against the competition. Seek out new opportunities and devise strategies to take advantage of these opportunities so that your online business will stay ahead.
Attract prospects/customers
Online customers have so much choice of websites,products,services and suppliers this is why you should spend some time,effort and money to attract customers/prospects.One of the most effective ways to attract people is the search engines. Over 70% of online visitors use the search engines;and a huge percentage of these people are buyers.One of your objective in to get listed on the search engines,to make this happen you need to make the pages on your website search friendly.
Follow these tips to make your pages search frendly;
1. Insert meta description tags and meta keyword tags between the head tags of your webpage:
* your title tag should be between 5 and 12 words-it must contain your best keywords and also describe your site
* meta description tags should be between 5 and 20 words
* meta keyword tags should be between 0 and 50 words
2. you should use keywords three or four times in the body of your webpage
3. Submit your website to search engines- add your site to the major search engines/directories and monitor results. Only resubmit if your site does not get listed. You can use automatic tools or you can hand-submit to each site. The latter approach takes more time but at least you can be sure your site has been submitted!