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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Website Content Management; Developing A Professional Website

By George Purdy

The success of your new or established online business depends on your knowledge of website content management and your ability to optimize it. Most business people find it obvious that you must offer high quality, detailed content and have an easy to navigate site, but there are many other tricks to online selling that are not as simple.

For most novices, help from a qualified professional is recommended in order to create an aesthetically pleasing website that functions correctly. The hiring of a professional, if finances are available, will ensure that the website looks good and works as intended. For some people, the hiring of a professional is too expensive. In that case, good quality software at an affordable price is available. Additionally, many hosting companies’ websites include a help page with user friendly tools and a customer support line.

Large businesses understand the importance of website content management and often write software to aid in that functionality. However, if you are working on a smaller scale, this will not be the situation. Remember, website content management includes many things beyond writing text. It includes honey for the search engines as well as proper formatting.

The chief aim of website content management is the use of those keywords which accrue the most benefit to your company by attracting the largest number of visitors to your site and achieving sales. An internet firm must keep search engine optimization firmly in mind, i.e., using the most effective words to cause search engines to rank you at the top of their results. This will make it much easier for potential customers to locate you.

Those who use a search engine generally check only the initial page of results. Only a small number consult the next page, and it’s rare that someone goes beyond that. Being on the first page - and high up on that page - really makes a difference. So it’s not enough just to show up in the results. You want to be at or near the top of the first page. Then, when visitors have used your link, you have to give them more than buzz words surrounded by empty chatter. You want to give them information they feel is worth their while.

While website content management is concerned with getting people to the site, it is not at its best unless they stay there and make a purchase, or click on an ad on your site, or come back with more business. It is just like a sale at a physical location, it gets people to come in, but it is important that have return business. Visitors to the site need to find something that is valuable, if they are just tricked into visiting by empty words, they will be unhappy and will not likely return.

Large businesses understand the importance of website content management and often write software to aid in that functionality. However, if you are working on a smaller scale, this will not be the situation. Remember, content management includes many things beyond writing text. It includes honey for the search engines as well as proper formatting. When most people do a search on the internet, they usually look no further than the first page or two of the results. Therefore, it is vital that your link appears on the first page, and as high on that page as possible.

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