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The terms or keywords that define your market must also define the structure of your website. Creating a website which is correctly structured around the keywords and categories of your business will ensure your prospects are satisfied at each stage of their buying cycle, from research to purchase.
At the same time the site structure must clearly and accurately identify to search engines the nature of your business. These two different audiences are very different and a successful site must cater for both. Only by achieving this can any website advance to become the Authority in a subject.
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Once traffic channels are functioning and marketing systems bringing in qualified prospects and sales to your business you must begin to build relationships with other businesses and organisations.
By identifying mutual benefits between the assets your website has created e.g. customer lists and the assets of complementary businesses you can potentially significantly boost your visibility in other markets.
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Hand in hand with the implementation of your authority website comes a systemized process of building traffic channels to the site. In years gone by traffic was generated from banner ads and that was significantly replaced by search engine traffic.
Today an authority site should be receiving traffic from a variety of channels including that originating from your company's activity in social marketing.
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The creation these traffic channels form an essential part of the business sales process. The powerful advantage of combining a correctly structured website with accurately identified keywords with prospect capture systems is that your business then owns an automated marketing machine that removes a significant amount of human effort.
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Use of the Internet to locate products and services is now moving into local markets. Those companies that harness the power of their authority sites to target prospects in their own towns and cities will be seeing significant opportunity over the coming months
Now that search is a basic feature of life for most of us and with the takeup of technologies such as iPhone, all businesses that rely on local markets must begin to utilise local search in their marketing toolsets. Remember the next time you see someone in your town typing into a PDA they could be looking for a help from a business like yours.
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