Software companies Bank on Search Engine Optimization to Increase Sales.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by seokellyjohnson, Jun 11, 2008.

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    A recent survey by MarketingSherpa found that percentage of prospects reaching out to the software companies for their respective need is greater than the companies finding the prospects. This sends an important signal to the software industry – to optimize their website content for search engines. The most optimized content, the more traffic it will generate.

    Where tech buyers find you.
    Source: MarketingSherpa. Inc.

    Search engine optimization is the process of improving quantity & quality of visitors to a website by pulling the site in top of the search results for relevant search terms. The optimized phrases are those that are typed by the user into a search engine while looking for what the website contains. These search terms are crucial for high ranking in search engines and SEO’s aim is to optimize the content of the website with those phrases..

    If you are outsourcing your web content writing, designing, development and search engine optimization, just find the best service provider who can really help to pull your site in top of search engines.

    If you are writing your web content, please follow these tips to optimize your site:


    Select Suitable Terms or Keywords

    The first step for an optimization program is to select appropriate search terms or keywords for your website content. Then sprinkling those keywords in each page of the website according to suitability. And do not stuff the keywords the keyword density should be hanging around 4 to 6%. You can also use google keyword research tools to find such words.

    Link Structure Within the Site

    It is essential to ensure that search engine spider is able to crawl all the pages in website. In case if the spider is not able to crawl some pages, then those pages of the website won’t get indexed, in spite of heavy search engine optimization on them.

    Off-Page Elements

    Link Text[/B]
    This is very crucial element for better rankings. They can be in on-page within the site or in other sites' page. The link text should contain the main search term of the target page. It is a good practice not to use identical link text for every link that links to a page, but try to incorporate the target page's main search term in the link text.

    On-page elements

    The Title Tag
    It is also an important element for good ranking in search engines point of view. Always
    ensure that the title tag has the page’s search term, and it is placed in the front, so that spiders can read easily.

    The Keywords Tag
    This tag is no more very effective as it used to be before.
    But there is no actual reason to discard it. You can put plethora
    of pertaining keywords into the tag and stitch the search
    term here & there.

    The H Tag
    "n" represents a number between 1 to 6, 1 stands for the
    biggest heading size. In the line of importance H tags comes
    before ordinary text. The bigger the size of the heading
    tag (H), the more is its importance. So include the targeted
    Keywords in H tags at least once on the page and place
    it near the top.

    Bold Text
    Bold text gets more weightage than ordinary text. Therefore
    try to incorporate the keywords in bold tags.

    Text and Alt text
    Use the keywords as often as possible keeping in mind
    the page's readability. Rephrase certain parts or add sentences
    so that the search term is well represented in the text.
    Don’t forget to incorporate the keyword in the
    alt text of all images on the page.

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    seokellyjohnson, Jun 11, 2008 IP