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5 hot Internet businesses for 2005
If you are planning to start a new business in 2005, you should seriously consider one of the many Internet based businesses available today. The online businesses have numerous inherent advantages in comparison to their brick and mortar...
Anchor Text Optimization
"Anchor text can significantly improve your page relevance. Optimized Anchor text can boost your site ranking and targeted search engine traffic."
If you have done some serious reading about your website's optimization, you probably would...
Find the Online Business Made For You – 7 Steps to Set You free
Best Tips to Help You Break Out of Searching Frustration
Are you confused by the huge selection of online business at the internet and offering letter in your inbox? Do you have online business but don’t give you good result as you expected?...
Got Blog?
In 1999 I asked my friends and colleagues if they blogged. The responses I received ranged from odd looks to questions about the blogging practice. The end results of my findings was “Blog” was a new term and not highly recognized. That was then,...
Sell Books While You Sleep: Submit Short Articles to Multiple Web Sites
Have you wasted valuable time and money on book promotion that doesn't work? Have your press releases been ignored? Have you been too quiet about getting the word out how your book will help solve people's problems? Passion and creativity went into...
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Local results provided by search engines point customers in the right direction
Local customers know where to find local businesses...the Internet.
Through search engines and directories, the Internet provides a quick and easy place to choose a local merchant or business.
Just because the Internet is worldwide doesn't mean local businesses can't benefit from having a website and a presence in the search engines. Realizing the benefits of local searches Google recently launched “Google Local.” This feature allows searchers to enter in their zip code and search using keywords. When the results are returned they provide the address and phone number of the businesses. Google and MapQuest have partnered to provide maps and directions to the locations that are returned in the search. Yahoo, AOL and MSN also have local capabilities.
The Kelsey Group and ConStat have found that 70% of US households use the internet to shop for local products and services. http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/5319.asp
More and more people are turning to search engines and online yellow pages to search for local companies. A website allows for business owners to
provide more information about their products and services than a full-page ad ever could.
An important update to make for your site is adding your physical address to your site pages, in the footer perhaps. This will ensure that the search engine's indexing spider or bot pick up the address for inclusion in the search engine. Search engine optimization (SEO) is also important so that not only is your address being pulled for inclusion in local results, but your site is found for the correct terms that describe your business. SEO can be performed on an existing site or as part of the development of a site. Local Search Engine Optimization
About the Author
Alyssa Duvall is an Internet marketing and a Search Engine Marketing Specialist. She provides proven results for Website promotion. More articles can be found at
http://bigoakinc.com/seo-articles/seo-articles.php
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