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…continued from The Power of SEO and Advertising Combined (Part 2)

The content of your website must have relevance to the searcher’s goal. In as much, it should contain pertinent information regarding the topic at hand; and a set of keywords or phrases that would help search engines identify the site as related to the search request. The content should aptly feature these words, in the right density, without butchering the searcher’s reading experience. Web traffic to your web page will be deemed useless if you scare away your visitors with meaningless articles stuffed with keywords.

Your website should also be designed in a way that is search-friendly. Meaning, your web pages, along with its content, must be visible to search engine crawlers. Web crawlers are the ones that index your site into the search engine database as pertaining to such content. For web crawlers, it will not matter how stunning your website is with its JavaScript and Flash applications. Since both are not readily seen, your site will not be indexed by web crawlers, and will not appear on any search listing. SEO will then be futile since there is no site to drive traffic to.

Having secured the former characteristics for your site, credibility will surely follow. If your site has good content, is indexed well, and remains to be popular to searchers, bountiful inbound links will ensue. These links will help you gain more traffic. If SEO assists in securing a top position for your site in the search engine results listing; your credibility will help maintain that position.

These three serve as the backbone for the success of your web marketing strategy. Without which, SEO may only do so much as give you web traffic without improving your business.