Why wont my website rank well?

[Hal Smith]

As for making your website rank well, it will take some time but you can get there. Firstly, do keyword research keeping your site and your competitors' sites in mind. Look for keywords that will bring good traffic but have low competition. Now the most important step is to incorporate these keywords into your site's content while keeping the content fresh. This must be done intelligently, don't just stuff it. Also keep updating your content, adding new, unique and interesting people-friendly content to your site. Use meta tags in your site for SEO and personalize your file and image names to the keywords. From then on, you can submit links to your site on forums, blogs, directories etc. If for any reason you can't find time for this you can always get a good affordable package from a SEO company to take care of this for you while you work on improving your site and its content. Another thing, put your physical address in the contact page of your site.

Other than that you can market your site and your business locally, by targeting local audiences in social media sites and forums. This will help get word out for your site. You can ask other local business owners to help with marketing. You can get a Google places page and also get on Yahoo yellow pages etc. The physical address will help you here too.

Hal Smith
URLdreamer Consultant