When people want to find your business, they open up their favorite search engine and they type in what they need. If your lucky, they already know your name, and they will search for your business. If you’re not as lucky, people will simply be searching for the service that they need. Developing a web presence that is accurate, findable, and easy to navigate is key to winning both of these sales.
Let’s start by taking a look at these two cases. In the first, the person already know your name, but they are searching either because they want to learn more and possibly find your phone number, address, or other contact information. However, if they cannot easily in at least less than a minute get to that contact information with a simply search, you have a big problem.
In the second case, the person is looking for someone to hire to serve a need in their life. You want their search to turn you up as quickly as possible. Most often, people do not go past the first three search results they get. Here it is critical to work on search engine optimization to ensure you are reaching those potential customers.
To solve both these problems, you should start by trying to achieve three things: be accurate, be findable, and be easy to navigate.
Be Accurate. The first step is making sure that once people find you online, the information is correct. This may seem obvious, but there are a number of different online listing sites and other databases that have your information. You need to step back and go through each of these to make sure all of the information is consistent and accurate. You don’t want three phone numbers and two addresses out there. In fact, search engines will penalize you for this inconsistency in ranking.
Be Findable. SEO seems to be the scary buzzword everyone is using these days, but the idea is simple – be findable. If you’re not showing up in the top three search results of Google, Bing, etc., take action. You already have a head start when you make your online presence accurate.
To help with your organic search results, work on your website, enhance your brand, and encourage customers to leave review. All of this will boost you above competitors. Plus, it is just good business. If this is not enough and you are in a competitive market, you can pay to appear higher using campaigns such as Adwords.
Be Easy to Navigate. Finally, make sure that once your customer reaches your website, they can quickly and easily find what they are looking for whether it is contact information or services. To the extent that you can control it, also make sure that outside websites listing your information are clear and make sense. The first step in doing this is the first thing mentioned in this post – be accurate.
If you have questions about how to optimize and develop and online presence, contact Adventure Ad Agency today. We can help you develop a plan and create consistency in your online presence.
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