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SJCarpentry is asking:

Here' s my question

http://watsonandcochran.com/

we spent a decent amount on our website, but pretty much only get current customers to visit.

How do we get more traffic?

simon07 asked:

How do images get searched?

Matt, can't thank you enough for your great answers.

MetroGal wants to know:

As a consumer that is trying to search the web, how can I be smarter about identifying the most relevant websites for me?

clnshirtz is asking:

I would like the expert to look at the 'site' we have http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=1003232

1 and tell me a few things:

1. Is there anything we should do on the current site to improve traffic?
2. If we had our own site, would they expect our traffic to go up much (we get 500 visits a month)
3. Does putting coupons and specials on your site increase the hits you get?

Matt, on behalf of the SBOC Team and the members of the Small Business Online Community, we wanted to say we appreciated your time today and your professional responses to user questions.

Community members, while our session with Matt has now concluded, please feel free to discuss today's session and the questions answered. Again, if you'd like more information about Matt and iCrossing, visit: http://www.icrossing.com

Thanks again,
The SBOC Team

That is quite a list of questions. I will do my best to answer them all:

Search engines will only index a certain amount of content from the page titles and meta tags. Try to keep them between 150-250 characters. The actual limits vary by engine. Keywords at the end of exceeding long titles and tags will be ignored. SEO best practices recommend targeting 2-3 keywords per page.

Ideally, you want your <meta keyword> tag to include the same unique keywords as in the title. When on page elements like page title, meta tags, on page content and header tags all support the same keywords, the page is considered more relevant by the engines, The more relevant the page, the higher in the results the page will be displayed.

Revising keywords and meta data will help SEO if you follow best practices.

A site map helps SEO as spiders look for a sitemap to begin their crawl. It looks like Google is indexing all the pages of your site (6 pages), so a sitemap wouldn't provide much help. It is very helpful for larger sites.

Having multiple domains pointing to the same site can actualy hinder SEO efforts and reduce the vistis from SEO. It depends on how you have the domains set up.

Hi,

The SEO optimization is difficulty for everyone. But it's was need for every small business running correctly,
I mean building traffic is another important component for every small business.

Great solution will be helping other to grow.

Thanks
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