Search Engine Optimization (SEO) sometimes seems like a sort of mystic science. That’s often the case for those who don’t work with it on a regular basis, particularly businesspeople, who are likely to have received the full blast of statistical analyses from experts without getting the big picture of what SEO does, and what it’s supposed to achieve.

Another thing most people don’t know is that SEO works, and works very well. They also apparently don’t know that the basic principles of SEO and advertising copy are very much the same. Ironically, the realities of SEO ideas and practices are in plain view, all the time, all over the world, in the form of ad copy.

Consider this-

• How do you search for something online?

• You use names, descriptions, and try to pin down your search terms to be as effective as possible, to find what you want in the shortest space of time.

SEO keywords and phrases are based on these principles, and so is advertising copy. If you’re looking for a fridge, you search for fridges, perhaps with a brand name.  If you look at hard copy ads, what do you see? “Westinghouse Fridges”.

SEO dynamics in hard copy

A man called Claude Hopkins is called The Father of Advertising. He wrote a book called Scientific Advertising at the start of the 20^th century, and his work is still required reading today.  Hopkins was a realist, and emphasized the value of print materials in terms of their value to the consumer, not the seller. The idea is that people have their own motivations for purchase, and these are the real decision-making influences.

Decisions are based on information, and that information has to be presented so that it shows clear values to the consumer. The consumer, naturally, looks at any form of advertising in the same way as SEO – “This is what I’m looking for”.

For hard copy producers, this principle is extremely important. A post-it note can provide enough information to generate a sale, provided it has information of use to the buyer. This in turn means that hard copy information has to use these values dynamically, to match the medium used.

For example-

• Your business card- Business card printing allows some very high value content to be included on a card, like services, areas of expertise, and visual content to attract attention like colour schemes, layout, etc. A business card is in effect a mini-advertisement.

• Business writing techniques- Basic business writing may not have a reputation for glamorous use of language, but it’s extremely efficient in terms of providing information. In corporate brochure printing, information content is very much constructed on the business writing foundation, with ad copy attached to highlight the SEO content effect for subject matter.

Even technical writing can be incorporated into something as obviously advertising-oriented as large poster printing, using text like “The new XYZ processor, 5GB RAM”, which tells those interested in high end processors exactly what they want to know.

SEO content dynamics work for any business. If you’re looking for better content for your hard copy, start looking at SEO principles. You’ll appreciate the upgrade.

Do you know that Google is currently the biggest website online, and also the biggest search engine in the world? Google also happens to be sending the highest number of visitors to most websites online, and the reason for that is very simple; when people need solutions to their problems, they go to Google.

There are two ways you can get traffic from the Google search engine. The first way is by constantly writing quality content that will hopefully get noticed in a few years time, and the other way is by actively taking measures to optimize your site and make sure it is in the right frame to rank well in the search engines. The second approach is the one I use for my yahoo small business coupon and midphase coupon blog, and this approach has been quite effective for me in the past, and is still bringing me great results.

The problem, however, is that there are things you should (and should not) do to help you get better rankings in the search engines, and in this article I will be giving you some reasons why your site isn’t ranking well.

Lots of Flash and Javascript Content

One major reason why most websites can’t rank well in the search engines is because they use a lot of flash and Javascript content to communicate with their readers. I’m not trying to say flash or Javascript isn’t good; instead, it isn’t that friendly to the search engine bots as they can’t crawl it. If you love to communicate to your readers via videos, then you can increase your chances of success by ensuring the post has the right title, description and tags. That way, the search engines will recognize and rank it in the right position.

It is Taking too Long to Load

Another major reason why your site might not be ranking well in the search engines is that it is taking too long to load. More than ever, search engines are now starting to place more emphasis on having fast loading sites, and as a result it will be very difficult for irritably slow sites to rank well in the search engines.

You can increase your chances of ranking well for your desired keywords in the search engines by optimizing your site and working on ensuring it loads faster for all users.

Poor Site Structure and Lack of Quality Content

One thing that might affect your site a lot and cost you some rankings is your site structure. Just try to take a look at your site structure and ask yourself if it is user-friendly or if it is unorganized. A good user-friendly site is also search engine friendly, due to the fact that links are all organized in one place and are easy to find, and also because the quality of the content regularly published is superb.

The structure of your website is very important, and the quality of your content should be second to none, so make sure you work hard on improving these aspects of your blog.

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If you’ve ever seen a really good online presentation, you’ll have noticed how everything looks seamless. Nothing out of place, everything clear and well laid out with no wastage or patchy bits. It looks like magic, but it’s actually good organization and pre-production at work, creating a very thorough presentation that has literally everything locked down. As a matter of fact, what you’re seeing is a form of condensed “SEO for audiences”. It’s one of the most effective forms of marketing, and it’s also why some people can make a living as presenters.

Mapping out your presentation

There’s another element in presentation that doesn’t get much attention- Thinking. A good presentation provides information and answers questions. To do that effectively, the presenters put a lot of thought into mapping out the information the audience needs. This is a natural quality control, including the important points and critically excluding the unnecessary materials.

There’s a bit too much emphasis on structuring presentation as if it was a sales pitch. That can backfire, and it often also crowds out useful information the audience actually needs to make a decision. Good information is a sales pitch. You really can’t improve on it, and many gaps in information just generate skepticism and questions. The audience isn’t getting what it needs, by definition.

Presentation production basics

Online presentations aren’t the same thing as in person presentations. There’s usually no direct line of questioning for the viewers, so everything has to be contained in the presentation

These presentations must follow a clear logical thread:

• Orientation and introduction- The storyline synopsis
• The narrative of the subject- All hard facts, using text, graphics and progressing the information systematically as a history
• The current unique and interesting information- The stand out features, using graphics, charts, text and verbal information.
• Close- The references and handouts or links are critically important to establish a knowledge base to back up the presentation.

Graphics and visuals

Graphics must be more than just eye candy for the viewers. More really isn’t better, in this case. Diagrams, charts and other materials must be spaced to give the viewer a chance to absorb and understand information, not merely get buried in it and be left trying to mentally catch up.

Content quality

The key is content quality. Good presentations are interesting. They engage the viewers. The presentation structure is also a good quality controller, keeping the content focused and relevant. This is a built-in “editor”, and it’s a very reliable way of making sure you don’t go off topic or over-emphasize some points and skim over others.

Getting interest is one thing, keeping it is another. Quality control will find the substandard stuff very effectively.

The “trick” is really applied, honest self-criticism.

• What’s the best content in the presentation?
• What information makes you certain you’re really learning something?
• What keeps you interested?

Compare what you know is good to the materials you’re not sure about. The rest is easy, and the presentation really builds itself.