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Simple SEO Tasks Can Improve Your Rank

Friday, 18 June 2010 03:12 by onsharp

 

Where are you on Google? How about Bing? Yahoo? You can easily increase traffic to your site by improving your rank in the organic search results of popular search engines (organic search results are not the sponsored links which are paid for). There are a few easy things you can do to move your site’s listing higher in the search results without spending anything but a little bit of your time. 

Get listed

Each of the three major search engines has local listings.  Think of these listings like a web based phone book. Make sure you have a local listing for each city in which you have a physical location. 

1. Go to getlisted.org

2. Type the name of your business and zip code

3. If you’re not listed, follow the instructions to get listed

Make some links 

Search engines look for how many of your links are on different sites. Create some of your own links by setting up a profile about your business on any one of these sites:

Facebook

MySpace

Twitter

ZoomInfo

LinkedIn

Directories

There are a variety of local directories where you can get your business listed as well as industry specific directories. We suggest these directories but you can do a search for “your town local business directory” and get a list of even more directories.

a) Hotfrog.com

b) ShowMeLocal.com

c) MerchantCircle.com

d) MyHuckleberry.com

Ask for Links 

We wouldn’t ask just anyone, though! Ask your local Chamber of Commerce, your Current Clients/Customers, Business Partners, and any reputable site that lists local business but isn’t a directory, you can help them out by providing the html code for your link when you request a link. For our client College Nannies and Tutors their code would look something like this: 

<a href=’http://www.collegenannies.com’> College Nannies and Tutors </a> and look like this on our website College Nannies and Tutors.

Advertise your website

One way to improve your ranking is to increase the number of people who visit your site—so first you need to let people out there know you have a site. Put your web address on every marketing piece: business cards, brochures, ads and everything else including your radio advertisements. 

Things to remember

Keep your info up to date on local listings and update your address, phone numbers, and website address if they change, build your links, and be consistent with your social media updates and blogging. All of these things will help to optimize your search engine rankings. 

 

 

 

What exactly does Onsharp do? Part II

Thursday, 27 May 2010 10:08 by onsharp
 What are our services and what do they mean?
The World Wide Web is huge; ginormous- if you will, so we’ve narrowed down to six core services.  These are the areas where, basically, we think we are really pretty good! Here are a few quick definitions of what we do.  Each listing links to its respective page, so check them out if you want to learn more. 
 
Web Strategy – In its simplest terms, web strategy is what we do in order to make sure your business is acting most strategically when it comes to the web.  How you implement your strategy can make a world of difference, and our understanding of the web and web strategy coupled with our passion to help businesses succeed create an overall strong, powerful service.

Web Development – We are committed to coming up with real, lasting solutions for businesses, not simply small answers that merely suffice for the time being.  This is where Web Development comes into play. We want our clients to be strong competitors in today’s world, so we work hard to help develop specific and custom web technologies in order to do this.

Web Design – The 3 core principles of Onsharp’s design philosophy are: Less is more, content is king, and outcomes determine success.  We use these philosophies to ensure our designs are sending a powerful message in a voice our clients want.  Not only do we care about the look and feel, as well as usability of the site, but we take into account a client’s entire marketing strategy when designing a website so we can make sure the design will help reach their business objectives and get results.


Web Marketing – Through our web marketing services, we make sure your business is reaching its full marketing potential on the web.  These online campaigns can sometimes be tricky and time consuming, so we manage them for you, whether it is tracking results or writing the actual ads word for word ourselves.

Web Optimization – Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a means of generating more interest and traffic for your website.  Through enhancing your current site (with methods such as keyword building, metatags, and more) we help you show up in the results of Search Engines (such as Google, Bing, etc.) and in turn help you get the interest you want for your website.  


Web Hosting—We offer reliable web hosting so that businesses don’t have to worry about the security or reliability of their web host.  Equipped with enhanced Spam filtering, we make sure our web hosting clients can have a peace of mind knowing we are doing all we can to filter and block Spam, viruses, and make your online experience the best it can be.  Our web hosting service comes with many features, so be sure to read more on the website!

Hopefully these definitions helped clear up, in a few minutes’ time, what it is we really do.  If you want to learn more or have any questions, visit the respective pages, leave us a comment, or call us toll-free at 1.866.ONSHARP.

Next week, we will cover what really sets us apart from other businesses out there like us: Our 3D Process.  We hope you’re looking forward to reading, because we’re looking forward to sharing!

 

 

 
 

 

 
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