Friday, June 4, 2010

Search Engine Optimization: Practical Way Of Doing Online Advertisements

By Alexander Goh

Online advertising is becoming more and more popular over the traditional advertising because of its advantages. Its biggest profit is that information can be made available to the viewing public in a very short amount of time (that is there is no need for publication etc.) and in a wide geographical area depending on the advertiser's requirement.

Online advertising can be quiet costly however. Some companies are spending thousands of dollars every month to run their advertisements. Of course this depends on the form of advertising you select. If you do not want to spend money, then there are some techniques you can try out. One of the most popular online advertising techniques that is becoming very popular among advertisers is search engine optimization (SEO).

With search engine optimization your main target is to get listed in at least first 2 pages of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing for specific keywords. The goal of being listed here is that when someone type or search for a service that is similar to yours, your page will be listed in the search results and hopefully your page gets clicked.

Being listed in the first 2 pages of the major search engines gives your website a higher chance of being noticed by potential customers. The good thing about it is that you do not pay for each click, in a way, you can have infinite number of clicks.

Now the next question will be how to perform search engine optimization.

To optimize your website you need to have a very basic knowledge of HTML. You can start by fixing the META tags of your pages. Focus on your website's page title and page description. Page title is what appears in the search results of the search engines. Make sure that your page title accurately describes the contents of your page. For your page description, make it as appealing as possible. Your page description also shows in the search results, it functions like a marketing tag line, so make it eye catching.

Next to the META tags, make sure that your index page have good text contents that speaks about the service or product you are providing or selling. As the index page is the most significant page in the eyes of the search engines, make it as good as you can. If you have images, do not forget to put alt tags and make them descriptive.

Once you have fix your pages, then it is time for you to introduce your site to other websites in the internet community. Send articles in the bookmarking sites. You can also advertise your site further by sending articles in different sites and ask them to put a link back to you.

Just continue creating back links and after few months you will see your rankings slowly coming up. It is not a quick process, so just have patience and just continue on improving your site.

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