Do you have a marketing strategy?

Are you focused on PPC or Pay Per Click advertising or Branding your companies image?

Building your online business and focusing on what your customer is searching for is one of the ways you can drive traffic to your website.  Chicago SEO Tools can help you in gaining a web presence, with the knowledge and effort, a well rounded team will focus on your needs.  Whether it’s gaining social contacts, press releases, ppc advertising, blogging, or article writing.

Targeting your visitors and prospective clients is critical in the land of Search Engine Optimization, having your companies website come up in the “organic” or “natural” listings is key to conversions.  Search Engine Optimization is a process with many elements and steps that when combined will bring traffic to your site naturally, which will decrease your paid per click or ppc advertising and be more cost effective in the big picture.

With many facets and social networking elements involved, gaining strength within your niche can become a challenge when faced with questions you do not have the answers to.

What is Twitter?
What is Facebook?
What is PPC?
What is a blog?
How do I find RSS Feeds?
What is Social Networking?
What is a Keyword?
Where is my web traffic coming from?

These are all questions that can be answered easily when it comes to a reliable SEO Firm, there are never any guarantee’s when it comes to search engine optimization, but we have proven results of traffic increase and inquiries.

Getting your companies website ranked well within search engines these days is key - the key within the key is good, reliable and solid content.  Becoming an authority in your industry will help push your ratings, rankings and give the world an accessible and useful resource, a vendor or supplier one can count on.

We take a deep look behind the scenes, at the code that drives your site, making sure that all the pages are optimized with correct tagging, titles and elements that will allow your site to be searchable and indexed within the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.   Looking at it from many different angles, to capture the audience your company is seeking, we rely on partnerships and long standing relationships to tap into idea’s and words that people are searching for.

When we were asked to do a site for Guitar Modifications, we got some really philosophical advice from an old musician.

“People are always in search of the “lost cord”  that vibrates within them, if  you are in search of the lost cord, you need the proper tools to access the data to determine your “lost cord”, how often have you heard of people searching the internet for things they want or need..pulling an all nighter,  you need to make your data that tool to resonate their “lost cord”. ” Buck Kleiner

Chicago SEO Tools will review underlying code and a variety of on-page elements that will help with natural rankings. Our suggestions will always be “search engine friendly,” ethical, and focused on the people who are actually looking for what you offer.

Our techniques will:

• Create pages and titles that will match your message and content that search engines will find.
• Increase the content of your website
• Create pages that are accessible, usable, and work in all browsers.
• Maximize the number of search engines and directories your site is listed in.
• Maximize the number of your Web pages listed in search engines.
• Increase the number of page on your website
• Maximize the number of links to your web site from industry related web pages and directories
• Improve the ranking of your web page listings on the search engine results pages.
• Implement a social network profile for exposure

Merchant Circle is a local directory that has been very sucessful for adding backlinks to my blogs and websites and often times a Merchant Circle listing come up higher in the search engines than my site itself, at least in the beginning.

Merchant Circle’s main help is the 4 keyword backlinks they give you after creating a profile, I suggest adding your main websites keywords and adding these links to go to some of your inner pages.  Lots of good link juice there since they are a PR 5 directory.

A few other goodies that are included is blogs, newsletters and local merchant connections.

• Find new customers with high search engine placement
• Track what people are saying about your business
• Advertise online with coupons, ads, newsletters, and blogs

Add Your Listing

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We found a quick and easy solution to his trouble, and reposted it with all the links/diggs/stumbles in tact - please feel free to contact us for the solution.

I created my first blog using wordpress.com and I suggest that
if you are going to blog for any sort of professional organization, it is a must to get your own domain and hosting package set up.  It is against wordpress.com’s policies to use it for commercial blogging.

Blogging becomes an addiction, and you catch the bug when you first start seeing visitors to your site.  A well designed and optimized blog will push your site up in the rankings of Google and other search engines.  If you opt for the free platforms, you may be limiting yourself as your blog grows,  once you begin establishing links into the your blog through the free sites, you will not be able to carry the link juice over if you opt to get your own domain & hosting.

Creating a blog should begin with a domain name, we use the following domain suggestion tool as well as a keyword rich domain suggestion tool. You are able to see which domains are available with and establish a keyword rich url for your site.

There are a variety of hosting companies to choose from when it comes to your website and blogs.  I recommend either of the following companies.

GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans

Hawk Host

Domains & Hosting Reviews has a line up of user feedback for a variety of companies.

I am not going to blog.
How dare you ask me to blog.
That sounds ridiculous…blogging

A blog is something everyone should have, whether you are blogging for personal reasons, or blogging for a company, it’s where you can write your words, the words and who can blog better about a subject than those that are closest to it.  You… You need a blog.

Why? Because it is a relaxed environment that your customers can come to find information, interact and communicate with you in a more relaxed environment, it’s a place where you can be yourself, as an employee, a vendor or as an innocent bystander.  It’s a place were we can come to shed the tie of corporate life and begin to know our vendors, customers and co-workers.

Why is this such a different concept?  It’s an online journal of experience, it’s authority of a subject, so if you know something about something, we can help you get noticed and set up your blog.   It is not a willy nilly process, it’s again a dedicated structure of putting your keywords to use to get you noticed.

Define your market, are you a niche website, blog or forum? You need to define your keywords, typing in those right words will get you everywhere.   Where do you begin, figure out what it is you are selling, and do your keyword research on you competition first, find out what they are going after.

Are you looking to market a single service or product? Are you looking to define your product in a global market or more of a demographic area? Typing the right keyword for your search is something that will bring you success.

Think in terms of your prospective clients, are they searching for specifics or are they searching in generics? SEO is not a well a precise science, typing the right word is not an easy science.  I suggest that you search and view many websites that are similar.  Find out what type of keywords, page titles and content they are using.

All it takes to land on top are correct domain names, keywords-short and long tailed keywords, proof positive content and build reliability for your followers.

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It is a game, full of algorithms, changing factors, new websites and a constant eye on what it is you are working on.

Check Mate You Say!

No way, it can only be a matter of an hour when your website falters in Google or  Yahoo, do not ever get comfortable with the fact you are number one in Google, Yahoo or MSN,  because the next search within a matter of minutes, you can fall to page 10.

Search Engine Optimization is a Game that takes constant attention, one of which you must have a passion for stats, keywords, referrals and link building, plus much more.  It’s not an over night success, it’s a dedication that include trials and tribulations, it’s finding out what pictures are better for this post and that page.

It’s also a collective agreement and teamwork, don’t put a clown where a clown is not welcome!

Search Engine Optimization is a Game that takes dedicated players, it is not for those that want instant gratification, it’s a steady, ongoing process for those that want to be on top, and stay on top of the search engine wars.

A dedicated, well rounded team that has a knowledge in social networking, article writing, forums, internet marketing, advertising and basic computer knowledge can help you achieve better rankings in Search Engine Optimization and continue to support your efforts in the Game of Search Engine Optimization.