Free Small Business Web Site 04 - Wait!

November 5th, 2008 | by Conrad Walton |

Before you do anything else on this page, let’s go back to that list of keywords that we created before you went to bathroom. Remember them? In our example, we were going to use “auto repair torrance”. If that’s what we were going to use, then I would make the username on this page “auturepairtorrance”. We want to have all of the keywords in the URL of our site. That’s SEO trick number one.

What are your keywords? Pick the 3 that best describe your business. How will people most likely find you in the search engines? If this was printed, I’d make some empty space below, but since I don’t want you writing on your computer screen, go find a piece of paper and write some down. I’ll wait here.

Just pick the obvious ones. Quite trying to over think it. Yes, this may determine whether you drive a Ferrari or sleep on a park bench, but just pick them. Come on. I’m waiting. No pressure, but…

OK. Are you back now? Let me see what you picked. Ah. Good. Are you sure about that one? OK. I’ll buy that. Those will work fine.

In my example above, using “Auto Repair Torrance” as keywords, I actually set up http://autorepairtorrance.wordpress.com/ to make sure this would work. It took a while to get it indexed by Google, but I linked to it from a couple other sites that I have. That’s the easiest way to get it indexed, by the way, not submitting it. After about 3 weeks, it’s #5 on the search results page for that search. Try it. Auto Repair Torrance