Great Ways to Increase your Business’ Internet Footprint

We live in an era where the goal is to reduce our carbon footprint, which essentially means to live a greener lifestyle. While it is great if you can recycle and compost more, those sorts of ideas don’t really translate into Internet marketing, as that is a space in which you want to have as big of a footprint as possible. By creating a big footprint, meaning you take up a lot of “real estate” around the web, you make it easier for current and potential customers to find your business. While having a website is great, it alone generally won’t provide you with the space necessary to show up high in search engine results, especially if if is not enhanced to be read by today’s major search engines. Here are four things you can do to increase your Internet footprint.
Website Revamp
It is likely that you already have a website for your business. If not, great! You can start from scratch. Your website, whether new or if you are revamping it, needs to be search engine optimization (SEO) friendly. This means that is uses (but doesn’t overuse) key terms surrounding your business practices. For example, an auto repair shop website should include the text “ auto repair in YOUR CITY” sparingly throughout the body text. However, you also need to conduct behind the scenes SEO, such as tagging images and site pages with proper names. Be sure to talk with your webmaster about enhancing your site’s SEO to increase your chances of showing up high in organic search results.
Video
Video marketing does not have to spendy! Surprised? Many people think of elaborate sets, scripts and actors when it comes to filming a marketing video. While that is one option, it isn’t the only option, and certainly not the most affordable. A well done video and photo representation can be done for far less than $1,000! Once the video is done you can use a marketing service to distribute it on upwards of 35 sites, thus enhancing your Internet footstep with the click of a mouse!
Social Media
Perhaps you’ve heard of Facebook? Maybe Twitter or Google+? Joking, of course, as these have become household names over the past decade. Using these sites for your business provides additional ways to find your services. Plus, these sites are great for interacting with new, old and future customers.
Directory Clean Up
There are many sites that utilize your business’ information to direct customers to you if they are searching for your services. This includes Yelp, Yellow Pages and even Google’s own listing services. However, if your information is not the same across all these platforms, it can hurt where your business shows in search results. A directory clean up service will ensure that all of the top directories list the proper name, address, phone number and logo for your business!
This might all sound like a lot of work in order to get people to click on your website. But as more and more people turn to the Internet to find everything from jewelry to landscaping, you need to ensure your business can be found. If you would like professional assistance with each of these tactics and others, reach out to MORBiZ’s friendly team of Internet marketing experts. We build and maintain websites, offer Google AdWords management services, conduct social media services, produce and distribute videos and more, all to bring more customers through your doors. Give us a call at 1-855-2MORBiZ to get started today. We look forward to helping you increase your Internet footprint.









