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| | Post New Topic | | SEO Tip - One of the first questions asked. | Views: 75 | | Jul 14, 2009 12:02 pm | | SEO Tip - One of the first questions asked. | # | 
Eileen Brown | | Hello Ladies.
I've been asked this question and I'm sure some of you have
asked it and some have been able to answer it too.
SEO begins at the beginning of your trek into the online
world. Keywords and key phrases should be at the TOP of
your list of things to research, get a handle on and keep
in your mind through each and every step of bringing your
business to the online world. There is NO other answer
to "where do I start?"
With that in mind, let's look to an article I wrote some
time back and posted at Qassia. It's been revised several
times and used to instruct people at various venues for
that same question.
You should already have a business plan in place for your
business so add this to notes at the end of that plan.
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In The Beginning: SEO comes first, not last.
For many years things have happened backwards for a lot of website business owners.
You think you need a website for your business or you are developing a web business
around your product line. Whatever the reason, most people start out backwards. SEO
comes first. So, what do you know about SEO? Nothing? You are not alone. Almost no one
realizes they need to do more research at the beginning than at the end of a website build.
For the purpose of this article alone let's look at only one thing - choosing an URL.
What does the URL need to say about your business? Right off the bat you say OK,
it should be my company name. Uh, not so. It should be descriptive of your company.
Your company name goes on the home page at the top, along with your address and phone
number. Your URL, once again should be descriptive of your business.
If you sell toy trains for example, and your company name is "Brown Tracks" you should
not choose "browntracks.com" as a company URL. Why? Because no one will be searching
for brown tracks in any search engine. What they will be searching for is "toy trains."
So you should try to get "toytrains.com" as your URL. If that is unavailable try to
add a location. Such as "toytrainsusa.com" or "toytrainskansas.com" or "toytrainswest.com."
See what we are getting at here?
This is a part of good, solid web development. Your descriptive URL is the
first thing to be indexed by the search engines and those words count as text; are
searchable; count as keywords and key phrases. Plan ahead, do a little research and
find what you need to get the best start possible.
Begin by choosing the right URL. This is SEO, at the beginning, where it belongs.
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So, you see how SEO should be a known factor before you
begin your journey online. Available for consulting on
SEO issues you can reach me here at ryze through the PM
system. OR you can ask your questions here at WOT or at
ABHP (A Bit of Humble Pie, Ryze network) and I'll help as
much as possible. For a full analysis you'll need to go
through the process of hiring an SEO consultant.
Eileen :D
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Private Reply to Eileen Brown | | Jul 14, 2009 2:44 pm | | re: SEO Tip - One of the first questions asked. | # | 
Gazelle Simmons | | Thanks for the tip Eileen. That's how I ended up with my URL. All other versions were taken. LOL! Take care and God bless.
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