Thursday, September 6, 2012

Reaching the Holy Grail of search engine optimization, online influence and true social engagement


What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO?)
Search engine optimization or as we say SEO is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s natural or un-paid search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users which obviously directly translates to more business and an improved recognition within your target market. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.

What we at Aboutblank do is to consider how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms or keywords typed into search engines. Optimizing a website involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Alas also promoting your site to increase the amount of influence your site has in the set target market and thus increasing your ranking in the search engine world.

Why is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so important?
SEO is very important in attaining eyes on your website a good and organised SEO plan is making your website easy for both prospective clients and search engine robots(crawlers) to understand. Although search engines have become increasingly sophisticated, in many ways they still can't see nor understand a web page the same way a prospective client does. SEO helps the engines figure out what each page is about, and how it may be useful for users.
The easier your website can be indexed by the search engine and the more valuable your websites information is to the search engine and its user the better your result on searches will be and the higher you’re ranking which will directly influence the amount of users on your site and thus turning your visitors into clients is easier.

What is my web influence?
Your web influence is just the next step in attaining glory in the world of the search engine indexing, what that means is the more influential your websites seems to the search engine robots(crawler) the higher it will rank/index your site and the more positive listings you will receive in the natural and un-paid search results. It’s almost the same as in daily life people flock to those who know more and have influence same with web traffic search engines will send more traffic your way if they perceive you to be of influence to a certain subject or community.

Why is my web influence important?
As you probably gathered from above it is important to be seen as a company of influence as the search engines main objective is to provide its user with the most useful information concerning a certain subject or keyword. The more influence you have on the web the more value you bring to the search engine users world and hence the search engine fulfils its task of providing its user with the most relevant information on its search

So the person who knows the most or in search engine terms seems to know the most about a certain keyword or subject will be the targeted information provider that the search engine will provide its user.
Now what makes this easy is the fact that search engines are not human entities and cannot truly gather who has the right information or the most information about a specific topic or keyword and works with a set of rules to establish who has the best information. The search engine algorithm looks at the person who has the most influence on the web to determine if this site is valuable to its user.

What we at Aboutblank wish to provide you is not only the means of not only being seen as the most valuable information source but actually building a community around your brand to establish yourself as honestly being the most reliable and influential source of information concerning a specific subject or keyword.

 What is Social Engagement?
Social engagement in terms of brands and corporations is the ability of a brand to engage a community of interested parties around its brand and utilise this community to build firstly its web influence and use this as a secondary platform to sell, discuss and engage with the users and interested potential customers to use your brands services and or buy its products.

Why is Social Engagement so important?
Facebook alone reports a community of 750 million users – it’s not news that social media is now central to how we communicate, interact and shape our world on a daily basis.
From a business perspective, it’s hard not to be worried by the implications of what this new era of social business means for your brand as a whole.

Up to date, social media has basically been used for plain marketing and branding as well as some recruitment efforts across the board. Most brands never see the power and opportunity of social media acting as a unique marketing tactic. Today’s mostly tech savvy internet users expect to visit a brand’s Web site and find interesting links or embedded content pulled from an associated Facebook page or Twitter profile. To put it plainly, social media has become part of the business fabric and how you should connect with your customers and ultimately how brands track engagements and sell products.

While it can be a bit daunting  to add yet another thing to your plate, We at Aboutblank are here to help you with your conversation around what it may mean to turn your brand into a social brand, it’s time to start.
Social Media and engagement from brands is here to stay, and whether you are part of the social community or not it will definitely impact your business and customers.

The world is currently in conversation whether your brand is part of it or not. Let us help you begin your Social engagement strategy and get your communicating to your world.

Where do we start?
We at Aboutblank believes that your brand needs to start and make sure your online foundation is solid and viable to start interacting in such a way as to not have a negative ripple effect from social engagement.
Let’s get your website aesthetic and interesting, we first have a look at your basic site functionality and update where ever possible. Then we will take on the task of making your site engagement ready. .Its useful for users to be able to see from your site what you have to say in social circles and where they can engage and like with your brand without leaving their browser window to go and search for you on a social platform.
Now we can start slowly building your social experience towards your goals and vision for your brands engagement level. If you have nothing to say people will have nothing to share remember that social networks only survive because the users share their content feelings and emotions about everyday life.

Once your website is set up and you are ready to roll with the social games we look at your digital footprint. The bigger your footprint the more chances of eyes peering at your content and the more engagement will occur. This is where we will play a big role in advising you as to which channels to use and what processes to follow to ensure that you are aware of the do’s and don’ts of today’s social platforms and aid you in setting up informative interesting looking brands on the social graph.

What is important to remember at this stage is that you as a brand on any social platform and trying to build your influence will have to at first reward users in some way for sharing and talking about your brand. No one is just going to share your brands vision, services or products because you are online.
We will help you get a few concepts together in the process of driving conversation around your brand think of things like competitions and free giveaways. Think sharing and think big.

About blank will be with you every step of the way to provide you with the latest news information and new tools to use in your campaigns to build your presence on the web to great new heights and translate these engagements into real time customers and profits.

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