This is one of the biggest challenges any business will face, especially for the small business owners of Spokane. Most small business owners are pretty much local to their own area or city, which means in most cases advertising on the enormous size of Internet always present a problem. Some business owners will try marketing on the Internet on their own, but in most cases do not succeed because they do not understand the complexity of the Internet and how to get top ranking with search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, All the Web, etc…

 

The Directory of Spokane has taking away this complexity for the small business owners of Spokane so that they will be ranked higher and found on these search engines for their local community. Our Directory is not just another database, where your business information is just place into a directory and then push to the bottom of the list. We are offering businesses to promote their products and services and any special promotion they may have each week or monthly. These weekly or monthly promotional products and services from any business are the best way to be ranked higher with search engines.

 

If the local business owners still wish to try marketing on the Internet on their own we would like to offer some tips for them. We would like to warn you that this can be very time consuming for anyone to do and learn the best techniques in order to get the best results. This why we suggest to let us experts at the Directory of Spokane handle all your business advertising for you by contacting us.  

 

Here are some tips to follow if advertising on your own:

 

Submission Companies: no amount of advertising by newspapers, classifieds ads, radio, Television, and newsletters will get you higher ranking with search engines. In order to get ranked with search engines, the best way is to submit your website to the search engines. There are many different ways to submit to search engines and these can be accomplished by: Submission companies; Warning some of these companies state they will do this submission automatically to hundreds and sometime thousands of search engines at cheap prices. This is really not something that you want to do, as most of them will not do anything for your rankings. The best way to submit your website is to do this yourself or hire an expert that will do this manually, as contacting the search engine companies directly will get the best results.  

 

SEO Companies: (SEO) stands for Search Engine Optimization and is one of the best ways to ensure that you will get good ranking with search engines. Be sure to always do research on any companies before using them, by finding out from other companies that have used them and to try and find out what kind of results they are producing. Many Internet companies are out there for the quick buck and you should be aware of this. With so many of these companies competing in this type of market it can be a very cut throat business and that is why you need to do your research.  

 

Before Submitting: Always make sure before doing any submission that your website is using good quality keywords, your graphics and photo’s are all in place, all links in your website are working properly. You should never submit websites that are incompleted. When submitting to search engines, make sure you submit the keywords that you have used on the website along with your contact information that you are using on your website.

 

 Growth of Your Business: Once you have completed the above steps your website showed start to move up in the search engine rankings but there are real no guarantees that this will happen, as this does not happen over night. It will really depend on the method you have chosen to submit your site to the search engines. You need to be patient to see if your results have paid off. Normally it can take any where from 30 days to 3 months to really see any good results. There are so many new businesses coming online each day that it might take for a human editor to review your site before it finally moves up in the rankings.

 

Online User: You will hear many that will always suggest to stay away any of these submission services whether it be submission software or personal submission, so buyer beware. There are very few of these companies online that are dependable to give you hundred percent increase rankings with these types of submission. As you can see it takes time and who can you trust to help your rankings for these reason we once again would like the local business owner to list with the Directory of Spokane, as we know the importance of getting your business moved up in the search engine ranks as quick as possible. So you be the judge as to how you would like to spend your advertising dollars, do it yourself and take your chances or let our experts get you listed in the fastest possible time.