What's all the Buzz about SEO & the Web 2.0?

Webprezents Provides Practical Solutions for Businesses Wanting Internet Exposure

With the new age of internet marketing becoming an individual domain rather than “Just for the big guys with big, expensive web sites and technology departments”, small to midsized companies should be including organic internet services as part of their marketing activity and business plan in order to maintain a presence on the internet.                   
       

It’s not only Techno Guru’s who work in and around hardware and software or the “Web-ites” who create the impressive web sites – it’s much more. It’s become a marketing responsibility to ensure that your company is listed on Google, Yahoo or MSN. Only a few years ago, it made sense to use key words, titles, etc.           

If meta tags are not part of your internet vocabulary, your technology specialist should have told you. Meta tags are fine if a search engine ever decides to index a business or organization by using them but this process could take up to six months. When meta tags are indexed, a web site becomes less and less significant as daily content overwhelms the web.

Have you ever noticed when you look for a service or product in your own backyard, the first twenty results are usually across the country, in another country or cover a group or membership based listing that requires yet more time to search or “Google”? YouTube, Wikipedia, MySpace and many more social networking sites have the ability to put a company or person on the World Wide Web along side the big players. From the December 25th, 2006 issue of Time Magazine’s cover story “Person of the Year: You” the new age of the World Wide Web gives everyone an opportunity to contribute their uniqueness, knowledge and thoughts on the Web.

Search engines, in order to become accurate, have had to fight a battle with gambling and sex on the internet. The abuse of meta tags has made them ineffective. Content has become more important and now we see sites abusing this option.  Just think of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.    

In order to become "findable", a business needs a combination of content, active links and relevance. Relevance is key. Did you spend more than $5,000 to have a web site created? More? No matter what is spent on a web site, it's worth nothing if no one can find it. Many small businesses are impossible to find unless found using the name of the company. If you want to participate in the internet and the Web 2.0 your business should be located where the internet traffic is located. It is essential to participate in social networking sites and be active.

Webprezents provides a unique program that addresses the fine balance of web site/internet optimization with marketing – a systematic solution that makes any business an active participant in the dynamic Web 2.0. Combined with practical and tactical marketing solutions that create identity, build awareness and increase positioning Webprezents includes a team of internet experts that provide consultation in the hospitality, tourism, not-for-profit, computer chip, high tech and semiconductor industries.