"Others First" Ads - The Better Way to Promote Your Business

Content on your website should not just be about you.  It should focus on your potential customer.  You are in business in a particular area. You have expertise which you hope others will compensate you for.  Give away some of your expertise for free via your website. 

Don't you get tired of seeing the same ol' type of advertising?  

Help solve the problems associated people who need or will need your help in the future. Are you an investor? If so, then write some content that helps people with budgeting. Do you own a gym? Write some articles or post a video on your website that explains how to get in shape after an injury.  You get the idea.

What you write about should seem simple to you since you are an expert.  For the person in need of your services, it will be a help, a breath of fresh air in a world of "we are bigger," "we are better," we are cheaper" ad bombardment. 

As you post on your site and social media, you'll eventually raise awareness of your business, increase your own credibility and connect with potential customers. 

How about this instead?  

So, if you are currently marketing your business online and have not put a great deal of thought into the content on your website, you may be making an incredibly costly mistake. The content on your website is invaluable for a number of reasons. First of all it gives visitors to your website their first impression of your business and the products and services you offer.

Additionally, the content on your website can influence the size of the target audience you are able to reach by helping to improve your search engine rankings. With your content capable of doing so much, it is clear you should be hiring a professional content writer to assist you writing the copy for your website. This article will delve deeper into the importance of providing accurate, concise and informative content on your website when you are marketing online. 

Finally the content on your website is very important because it can greatly influence your search engine rankings. This is critical because high search engine rankings help your business to reach a considerably larger audience. Internet users are typically looking for information quickly and want immediate results to their inquiries. Search engines understand this profile and write complicated algorithms which help them to supply the most relevant websites when a user searches for a particular word or phrase.

This is important to business owners because Internet users realize the value of search engines and are likely to only visit websites which rank well in the search engines. This includes websites which rank on the first page or two of search results. Your business might sell football jerseys and you may have a well designed website, a superior inventory and excellent prices but if your website does not rank well in search engines you are missing out on a great deal of free advertising.

If your website lands on the third page or lower most visitors who search for relevant terms will not likely visit your website because they will have found what they were looking for on earlier pages. This is where the content on your website becomes important. Websites containing content which has been optimized for particular keywords will likely rank well with search engines. Hiring a writer skilled in writing optimized content can help to improve your search engine rankings so you can reach more potential customers. 

If you are a DYI business owner or marketer, we have some great resources for you in our Resource Area.  Be sure to check out the Launch Library and the Fuel Tank.

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