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If you are an business and you are looking to develop an online presence, one of the most important marketing tools you should be looking at is Search Engine Optimisation as parting of your web marketing and overall business marketing plan. This should be part of any business owner’s further business education.

“Search engine optimization (SEO) is a subset of search engine marketing, and deals with improving the number and/or quality of visitors to a web site from “natural” (also known as “organic” or “algorithmic”) search engine listings. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and ultimately web traffic. This is analogous to foot traffic in retail advertising.”

It is something you must do. Either you learn how to do it yourself, or you outsource and pay someone else to do it.

You need to submit your site to directories such as DMOZ and Search Engines (Google’s submission is here). Other ways to get more visitors include “link building.” This involves placing your links in as many relevant spots around the Web to drive traffic towards your site. Free ideas include:

Forum Signatures
Blog Posts and COmments
Link swapping

Paid ideas include:

Banner Ads
Affiliate Programs
Buying Forum Signatures

It also involves making sure that your text is written correctly to fit into what Search Engines look for.

Search Engine Optimisation involves too much to cover in one post. If you are interested in more information, check out Wikipedia, or contact me here.