Marketing Products and Services On-Line

March 11th, 2010 by Matthew Stone Leave a reply »

Selling products and services on line via the internet has become the main method of recruiting new customers. Attracted by low overhead sales costs, organizations have chosen on line marketing as the preferred method of competing. Many companies stumble in marketing their products though, by producing only main company web pages that they hope will attract new business. Prospective customers generally search for specific products though, and may not find the company web page when researching purchase of a new product.

Search Engines such as Google and Yahoo! catalogue most company web pages and all their sub-pages so that when customers ask them to find information, the search engines can offer them as possible results. Search engines have become such a powerful sales generation tool, that many companies invest in the process of ‘optimization’ so that their website will appear when customers are researching a purchase. And getting in front of a prospective customer during the buying process is of course essential to making sales.

Large corporations determine that a good strategy for increasing sales is to compete on line by posting web pages dedicated to individual or specific products and services. Companies selling many different lines of goods and services would be well advised to break their website up into product areas complete with separate product pages. SEO Consultants in Denver produce and optimize product pages for clients and have achieved success in attracting web traffic. Read through the example and task description to find out more.

Insurance agencies generally provide a wide range of financial products and services. Annuities, life insurance and other products are available through the same agent. How would the agent combine all these products effectively into a single page to attract customers? Well he probably can’t. There is simply too much detail to effectively compete for all the possible customer search terms using only one page. By subdividing his site into separate product areas, the agent can focus on the need-serving capability of each individual product or service and in this way, his individual product page can compete for search engine traffic.

Subdividing these pages isn’t enough to attract business. Each page has to be optimized separately using standard SEO methodologies. Once optimized separately, these product pages can compete for internet traffic as well as earn new customers. Once a product page is built and posted, there are two remaining tasks:

- Develop unique keywords to support the product – Establish Link-Building Strategy for each page

Keyword Strategy – Developing unique keywords for each page is important because once these keywords are identified, they must be applied to the page title, headline and tactically inserted into the text of the page. In keeping with the Insurance Agent example, a page describing retirement products might take the form of something like “401K management in Cleveland.” (Although this is far too general, it is just provided here as an example.) The specific product as well as the geographic area the agent primarily serves are all included in the keyword string. Using this phrase in the page title, again in the headline and within the copy should help search engines understand that the page is about 401K products sold in the Cleveland, area.

Link Building – Product pages should also have a link building strategy just as the main page should. Setting links elsewhere in the internet world that take the user directly to the product page strengthens that page and makes it more likely that the page will be returned as a result when users search for information contained on that page. The process of setting links directly to the product page is also referred to as “deep linking” where the main page is bypassed and the user taken directly to the page that contains the information he/she is seeking.

Investing the same effort in optimizing individual product pages as the main page can really pay off. Although it can take several weeks to see traffic directed to a page dedicated to single product or service areas by the search engines, these product pages provide the bits of information prospective customers seek prior to buying. To increase sales of your product then, optimize each product page to compete for reader attention on the search engines.

Denver SEO Consultants assist organizations of all types increase income and improve sales by attracting new customers via the world wide web by attracting internet users to well optimized web pages. Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service


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