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Build Your Web Presence With These Localized Seattle Marketing Tips
Posted by Rory Martin in Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing on May 23, 2014
Whether you’re a startup, or a tried and true business growing your roots and expanding to the web, getting out there can be tough. The process of building a website, establishing a web presence, and building followers across social sites can not only be intimidating, it can be near impossible if you don’t know what you’re doing. In fact, you can waste hours of your valuable time pursuing outdated and irrelevant strategies that are often still quoted as the ‘best thing’, on various websites. While your specific strategies should vary depending on your business type and budget, here are a few quick tips to get you started developing your web presence in Seattle.
Get a Website
A website is the best way to establish yourself as a professional online. Even if you don’t know what to do with a website, you should have one. Websites inspire trust, allow consumers to learn more about you on the web, and might even allow you to make sales directly from the internet depending on your business module. While you can use a free theme or a professional custom CMS design, your site should load in 3 seconds or less, offer users easy access to everything on the site, and be mobile friendly.
Utilize SEO
Once you have a website, it’s important to utilize localized SEO so that you come up in search to people in the Seattle area. You can choose to pay for a Seattle SEO campaign, or do it yourself. The process involves optimizing your website for search engines with sitemaps, create a healthy link structure inside of the site, and then research the keywords, and search terms for your site. Make sure you familiarize yourself with current SEO standards, as they change frequently, before attempting to do this on your own. Keep in mind that if you want your generated traffic to stick around, the content has to be awesome for readers as well as search
Pick Three Social Platforms and Stick to Them
If you’re doing social media on your own, then it is a mistake to try to tackle too many platforms at once. Instead, try outlining the three social platforms that offer the most value to your business, establishing a presence on them, and sticking to them. You should be posting at minimum twice daily on any social platform you use.
Create a Strategy
A marketing strategy is an essential part of business success, and this is also true with the web. Unfortunately, you don’t and cannot outline exactly how you will reach your goals because social media is constantly changing. Instead, outline goals, assign amounts of time per day to get there, and then strategize how to get there.
Hire Professionals
Finally, many business owners should stick with what they do best, running their business, and leave the web marketing to the professionals. If you have a budget for marketing, then web marketing can and will produce a return on investment for you if it is being handled by professionals.
How to Get Started with Localized Internet Marketing in the Seattle Area
Posted by Rory Martin in Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing on April 25, 2014
If you’re marketing a local business here in Seattle, then Internet marketing can actually do more for you than you might think. While many people think of the Internet as an all or nothing worldwide marketing venture, it doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of local outlets, websites, and tactics for locally marketing your business on the web. While it does start with social marketing, there are a number of different internet marketing tactics you can use.
Blog Marketing
If you have a produce then you can get blogs to cover your product. Usually the process isn’t free because you will have to offer them your product to review or write about, but if those blogs have a following then you can get customers from it. Great places to try include neighborhood newspapers, and local blogs that cover your niche. For example, if you want to promote a restaurant, you would want to look for local food blogs with a following, local social pages and groups about food, and local newspapers with a food column. In this case, by offering a free meal to the blogger or reviewer in exchange for coverage, you get increased hype and hopefully customers as well. The trick is that the person in question has to be impressed in order to write something good about you.
Content
Content marketing is the single best way to promote your topics to the world wide web, but if you want to keep things in the Seattle market then you will have to create selective content. Find out what local people want to know about your niche, and then create content that helps them with that. User created content like videos, reviews, and comments also help with local content marketing and help to boost your local SEO, so try encouraging user created content whenever possible.
Localization
Localization is a huge deal if you’re marketing to a specific area. While you can just include your address and a few localized keywords on your website, you can also localize in a few other ways. You can create blogs and posts based towards specific areas and neighborhoods. You can also set yourself up on Google Local and Google Places to come up better for localized search. Finally, set up your page with a location on Facebook so that you come up under Graph searches for content in your area.
Social Pages
Social pages are very important for almost any type of business, but the smaller your business, the more people want to see an active social page before they’re going to want to buy from you. The key here is to encourage your clients and customers to review you on your social pages so that new customers will see positive hype about you as soon as they go on the page. While you won’t always be able to make this happen, it will definitely help.
If you need help with your localized Seattle internet marketing then try contacting Rory Martin for advice. We’ve worked with dozens of companies, and we can help you too.
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