Sunday, March 1, 2009

Keywords to Market Your Business

If you are marketing your home based business online few things are more important to you than keywords.

Keywords can help many, many people find your information online and that means more sales and income for you!

So what is a keyword?

Have you ever used Yahoo or Google? If not you’re one of the only people on the planet. Search engines like Google allow users to search for the specific things they want to find online. You just type a word or a phrase into the box and boom! Page after page of results!

So a keyword is the word or phrase that people will use to find your website on the internet.

It just amazes me how many home based business owners put up good looking, awesome websites but don’t promote it at all. How do they ever expect people to find it that way?

By using keywords correctly the people who are searching on the internet (and there are a lot of them!) for a home based business will be able to yours faster.

Finding the keyword or keywords that you want to target can be a little more challenging. Many people assume that they should just use the phrase “home based business” but that’s not really the best way to go.

The problem with a really broad keyword like “home based business” is that everyone under the sun is using it so your competition is going to be huge. The most effective way to use a keyword is to use a smaller niche market like “Texas home based business opportunity” or “Chicago work from home business for moms” while there will be less people searching for those particular terms the ones who are searching for them will be sure to find your websites, you won’t be as lost in the crowd so to speak.

Once you figure out which keywords you want to target just make sure you use that particular phrase as much as possible. Use it in articles, on your website, on your business blog, as titles for your videos, everywhere you can imagine.

Don’t use them to the point where you’re just stuffing the phrase in where it doesn’t belong but use it enough so that the search engines will pick it up and put your link on their first few pages!

By using keywords correctly you will get lots more traffic to your website and that means more profits for you!

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