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Internet Technology: Getting Your Small Business Up and Selling on the Web

Search Engine Optimization

Using software for SEO:

Keyword software: This software will spy related competitors' web pages to find out what keywords or phrases they are using to obtain top ranking. WebCEO software offers suggestions based on analysis of the top 10 competitors, which is based on the idea that most potential customers only look at the first 10 results of a search done on a search engine ("Keyword Research" 1.) The software uses three steps to analyze keywords for small business. First, based on keywords used to describe products sold on a web page, the software finds other top web-sites that use the same keywords. For example: a company wants to sell baby clothes online and would like to use "baby clothes" as a keyword. They will find that twenty-two web-sites use this keyword. At the same time, a list of these web-sites is created (see Figure 1). At this time, based on the keyword, the software will suggest other popular keywords. Second, the software finds the rate of daily searches of the keyword at a search engine. "Baby clothes" was searched 2,208 times (see Figure 2.) The effectiveness of the keyword is judged, as well as a total number of sites found that compete with the same keyword. Third, the keyword software helps the IT staff by showing them the using the top 10 competitor and their page ranking (see Figure 3). The three steps will help a company find the weakest keyword that a competitor uses, and help select popular keywords that potential customers will use to find the company's web-site.

 

Figure 1: Screen shot of SEO software-list of web-sites that use a particular keyword
Figure 1: Screen shot of SEO software-list of web-sites that use a particular keyword.
 
Figure 2:  Screen shot of SEO software-number of times a keyword was searched (daily)
Figure 2: Screen shot of SEO software-number of times a keyword was searched (daily)
 
Figure 3:  Screen shot of SEO software-list of competitors and their rankings.
Figure 3: Screen shot of SEO software-list of competitors and their rankings.

Using software for SEO

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Produced By: Hong Chen, Jay Allen, Yi Gong and Laura Torreso
December 2007