SEO will enhance your natural ranking with Google, which may help people hunting for your product find you in the head of the search rankings, which makes them think of you as a Trusted Expert!

See how that works?

If you’d like to be a reliable Expert ( and of course you do ) you have to be all over SEO. That’s because folk inherently trust natural search results more than PPC ads when they do a search.

Why?

It does not matter what the logical truth is, its the emotional response that counts, and gets people to take action. So, if you would like to be considered a reliable Expert in a certain niche, then you want to rank well for your target keywords.

You’ll expect this post to be full of SEO tricks and tips, but what you dont realize is that you’ve already been doing a lot already to enhance your SEO, if you’ve been doing all the things that I’ve recommended to become a Trusted Expert (prior post in the series if you missed it: Press Releases the More Technical Stuff).

- Your blog: Google and the other search engines loves them some blogs. Each time you post, you improve your credibility and your standing with Google. Blogs are also a way to target new keywords a good blog post with the correct keyword density ( 2-5% ) can bring you in a large amount of new folks if centered in the correct way.

- Your web press room: Again, Google loves anything that provides fresh content, and youre going to be posting every single promotional release you send out. This is especially important because the online press release services only keep your promotional releases indexed for a short while. Anyone searching on the terms you used in those press releases after that time will be directed to your online press room / latest reports area. And if you dont have an area for your press releases, then theyll end up at someone else’s website.

Outside your Trusted Expert content, there are a tons of basic technical things you have to be doing to improve your SEO.

• Have your main keyword in an h1 tag (only once)
• Use your alt tags and add your primary keyword to one of them (most important is to describe the image but when possible add a keyword to one of them)
• Link to related high authority resources (Google likes seeing you offering visitors relevant info and linking to high authority sites)
• Add your primary keyword phrase to your title, description & keyword tags (only one time in each)
• Internally link to your main pages with the keyword anchor text you want to rank for (internal linking is very important and often overlooked)
• Make sure no two titles and descriptions on your site are the same (Google often deems this as duplicate content, even though the pages might be completely different)
• Check for broken links and images (Google hates errors)
• Have a Google friendly site map and submit it to the google webmaster tools.
• Use a robots.txt file.

There are a lot of other tips to enhance your SEO, but this is a handy place to start. Like a lot of things about being a trusted Expert, it all comes back to the content. Correctly focused content not only brands you as a Trusted Expert, but it also improves your SEO and makes it simpler for people to find you, which helps them to see you as a reliable Expert.

Funny how reciprocal that is well I believe so anyway sort of.

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