Your Niche on The Internet – Search Engine Optimization.

Targeting Website Traffic.

Do you want your business to appear 50 pages deep into the search results for a particular topic along with 40 million other websites? Financially speaking, it is far more beneficial for your business to appear on the first page of search results, for a category with only 3/4 of a million other websites. Think about this for a moment. Let's say your business markets widgets on the internet. Do you need millions of people clicking on your website looking for widgets, if in reality you only happen to sell RED widgets? Wouldn't it make more sense to place in the top 10 search results specifically for red widgets? Would you rather have 5,000 unique visitors per day (of which 50 might be convinced to read about your red widgets. For more info, contact Grand Rapids Michigan Search Engine Optimization Services today!  GET A QUOTE NOW!

IF YOUR SITE CATCHES THEIR ATTENTION) or would it make far more sense to have 200 unique visitors DAILY looking SPECIFICALLY for red widgets? Keep in mind that the primary objective is not finding a way to bring tons of general traffic to your site. The objective is to bring substantial traffic to your website that is in fact LOOKING SPECIFICALLY FOR WHAT YOUR BUSINESS PROVIDES! Page views do not determine the financial success of a page. Your website can produce thousands of hits a day that do not actually result in sales. I have a client who had his page views of a particular page decrease significantly when he became more specific in choosing his page titles, while revenue from the page nearly doubled. When it comes to an internet business, it all comes down to if the site visitors are making a purchase or not. One thing to watch out for on a page logging high page views, is how long they are staying on your site. If you have a significant number of page views that the visitors are remaining less than a minute, it is often that they were not looking for what your business provides. This happens frequently when a "general" key phrase is targeted.

Finding Your Niche on The Internet.

Choosing a Niche for Your Business

I always hated trying to understand articles that explain things using the generic terms such as red widgets and blue widget, so let's try to explain this with a few real life examples. The most LOGICAL key phrase for our main online business would be the term web design. However, with nearly 14 million search results for that term, the odds are NOT in our favor for our site to appear on the front page of search results for web design. The solution is to decide what our niche is within this highly competitive category.

I need you to understand this next fact inside out and backwards.

Every page on your website must focus on ONLY ONE TOPIC. If you currently have pages covering multiple topics divide them up by adding additional pages. You are not limiting how many key phrases you can use. You are simply limiting how many are on a single page. If you want to use ten different key phrases, then you need to create ten pages for those key phrases. HOWEVER, you must also have quality content for those pages.

Once you understand this, you will see a number of niches you can benefit from..

Grand Rapids Michigan Search Engine Optimization- Although we are in the web design business, our focus is on Motorcycle Website Design. We are far happier being the # 2 site for Motorcycle Website Design out of 331,000 search results, and # 3 for "Motorcycle Web Design" out of 830,000 search results, than we would be if our business was located on the 50th page of nearly 14 million search results! As another example, we specialize in graphics. In fact, this is probably our favorite part of the business. Google returns nearly 40 million search results for this term! The likelihood of our site ending up on the front page of results for this competitive a keyword is small. This is where you must take the time to determine what it is that sets your business apart from all of the other companies that fall under your general category. What is it that you do? Our niche in the graphics world is that we design outstanding biker graphics. Always placing in the top 5 for this term nets us far more income than if our site was buried in the middle of 40 million search results for the term graphics. What this means is that when the phone rings in our office, the odds are very good that it is a potential client that is looking specifically for a service that we provide. We're not receiving calls or emails from customers looking for blue widgets when we only sell red widgets!

For an online business, or for that matter any business to be successful, there has to be SOMETHING that sets them apart from all the other companies like them..

Sit down with brainstorm for every niche you can find in your business. What do you do? What products do you market? If your business markets gifts, what type of gifts? Break it down from general categories to specific terms. For example:

• unique gift idea

• unique baby gift

• unique wedding gift

• unique mother day gift

• unique baby shower gift

Grand Rapids Michigan Search Engine Optimization- On category or product pages you might consider a more general term that breaks down into more specific search terms on individual pages. USE THE KEYWORD TOOLS and simply continue this process through every page on your site.

Research Resource Links

• Good Keywords Tool

This is a free download available for PC's. Please download and install this tool. Take some time to learn how to use it effectively. There are help files located within the program. You will want to place a short cut for this program on your desktop, as we will be using this tool quite frequently.

• Keyword Suggestion Tool

This is a free online tool that we will also be using very frequently, when we are fine tuning the titles for our pages. Please add it to your favorites or put a short cut on your desktop. DO NOT click on any other links on this site. I am ONLY personally recommending the use of this specific tool.