Is SEO dead? With so many companies shifting their marketing dollars and efforts from SEO to Social Media Marketing, some are left to wonder, is search engine optimization obsolete? In this day and age of digital communication via texts, Facebook, Twitter, and the likes of Instagram, building relationships with client and consumer hopefuls, can’t possibly be a bad thing if it’s done correctly. Right? It takes a dedicated and trusted social media manager, good strong strategies and proper management of the networks for social media marketing to really pay off.

Let’s assume you are performing social media marketing correctly and that you are building a good following in all the major social networks. You are babysitting the networks and responding to inquiries in a timely fashion and people seem excited. Are you converting these new “friends” and “likes” into sales? If not, why? Could it be that ALL of your efforts are going into social media and that you haven’t checked your website lately? Maybe your website is just not up to speed with what this technology savvy, social client base you’ve been diligently working on needs.

Guarantee: Times and strategies will constantly change. There are only so many hours in the day to complete all the necessary tasks of running and maintaining a business. One task that cannot be overlooked, ever, is SEO. Good, old fashioned, white hat search engine optimization. Fine tuning your content, titles and pertinent information on your website is crucial to an engaging website. With information on how the search engines utilize urls and meta-info being a bit sketchy, page titles, images and paragraph titles have to be engaging yet convey the correct information of the content quickly.

Might I suggest a Spa & Salon Day for your website? Spa & Salon Day? Really? Did a real live, experienced SEO/SMM strategist just suggest a spa day for a website? Yep. Sure did. Websites need a little love and pampering too. While social media marketing is an absolutely wonderful way to gain new clients, if your website can’t support your SMM efforts of traffic to your site, you aren’t going to ride the social revolution wave…at all.

Spa Day Specials for your website could be:

• Facelift: Does the content on your website need a facelift in order to utilize keywords representative of your company’s needs? Is the content of great quality? Is it engaging enough for the reader?
• Manicure & Tips: File down your titles and make them engaging, yet short. Are you page and paragraph titles suggestive enough to keep a visitor on the page?
• Soothing Eye Treatment: Does your website flash and blink and sliders make readers dizzy? Are images eye catching or distracting? Don’t forget some could be viewing on a mobile device.
• Microdermabrasion:  Scrub and remove that dead content that is no longer applicable.
• Full Body Massage: Does information flow in an easily navigable manner or do you have to “massage” it to get where you want to go? Do your menus and buttons still go where you think they go?

Spa Days can be expensive, especially when done right. But with regular website maintenance, hopefully you site can stick with spa treatments and not have to go the surgery route! Don’t forget….SEO IS NOT DEAD!

Melanie Ledbetter-Remy | Bizopia – Social Media Marketer

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Want to move up the ranks in Google, Yahoo or Bing? If so, contact Houston SEO company, Bizopia, and let us help you develop and market your business site through proven SEO and website development strategies.
In business since 2002, Bizopia has helped companies improve their ranking through increasing exposure via different methods such as Social Media Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and strong website design and development.
With professional website designers, proven SEO copywriters and research assistants, Bizopia builds sites CORRECTLY the first time. With the ability to provide SEO services to companies with websites that are already constructed, sound SEO principles can be applied without major changes to the look and feel of the current site.
Multiple packages are offered for those that are still unsure or uneasy with this SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process. We guarantee that you will be satisfied because we still do business FACE TO FACE, and we will discuss our strategies up front with you. In this day and age of fast paced business transactions, the team at Bizopia still believes that it is very important to meet with every client and discuss your goals, as we know they can change over time.  Our customer service team is knowledgeable and friendly, and the development team can make changes in a timely manner – unlike large development firms.

To tweak, or not to tweak?  Keep your current site or start from scratch? Those are the questions you need to ask in this online marketing, web-centered world. Sure, there are ways to gain exposure without hiring a professional website design and search engine optimization company, but seriously, do you really have the time and the resources to provide maintenance to your site daily? Do you really have the time to do in depth research on your competitors – and to do it often? That’s why we feel it’s best for you to do what YOU do best, and to let us do what WE do best – and that’s to help you get noticed by the major search engines, attract new customers and clients, and to gain on that number one spot that everyone has their eye on.

Call today and let BIZOPIA, Houston’s SEO Company, get you noticed!

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When I am talking to business owners about their website, and why it is not ranking, many times I get the question, “ In order for your Search Engine Marketing services to work do I need to re-design my website?”  The short answer is no, but would you take a golf cart to Le Mans?  You don’t have to completely re-design your website, but we wouldn’t be talking if you were pleased with your website’s results so let’s take a look at the car (website) first before we discuss the fuel (Search Engine Marketing.)  Most business owners I meet with think they have addressed their website marketing needs because they have a website.  It may not get them business or drive much traffic, but the simple fact they have a website allows them to check off that task and wonder why their business isn’t growing. Many times their first website was built by a friend, child or part time web designer that has no clue about Search Engine Optimization.  The website may look good and talk about the products and services of the company, but without SEO architecture and content focus, the site will never rank in the search engines or on the clients preferred keywords.

So when you begin SEO marketing activity, it will improve the ranking of the website, but the results will not be near as successful if the website was built for SEO.  I like to compare it to putting high octane performance fuel in a go cart.  At the end of the day, it helps, but doesn’t get you there very fast. So my recommendation in most cases of a website re-design is to completely start over.  Build the website focused on the key words you are going after with a clear, focused, call to action.  The goal in any website is to have a visitor do what you want them to do, but they will never get that chance if they don’t find your website.  By building your website with the basic architecture of SEO: Keyword focused Title Tags, Keyword focused Header Tags, SEO Copywriting, Sitemap, etc. you can create a website or performance car ready to fly with online marketing activities.

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