Whether They Follow You Or Not, Brides Expect To See You On Facebook

Over the last few years the look of marketing has drastically changed. People have gone from using phone books and listening to radio and TV ads and have switched to checking out websites and looking up companies on Facebook. It’s not that TV, radio ads and phone book listings are irrelevant, the actual issue is that the majority of consumers expect your business to be active online, and if you aren’t it can be a huge red flag to potential customers.

The movement behind the switch in expectations: The truth is that once Amazon really caught on people got used to finding out in-depth information and reviews in an easy to find format. They want to know what you are about, and what other people think of you. They can’t find this out in an ad directly from you. On top of that, reviews and information online tends to be written in a much more interesting format. People don’t want to just take your word for it; they want to know they are making the best decision possible.

So why do brides expect to see you on Facebook? In part it’s because in the last year wedding businesses have started to get the picture that people want to see actual images of their products. Facebook is a no pressure, easy to navigate place where brides can check out your work while they are catching up on the news with friends and family. Essentially you are putting your wedding business on Facebook in the same place where brides hang out. To find out more about current stats on consumers on Facebook check out this interesting article by Sarah Love. What do you think?

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Why Better Website Content Leads To Better Search Engine Results

Google is working tirelessly to even the playing field and keep people from “working the system” landing them top in search results over more relevant sites. Think back a few years. It used to be that you would do a search on Google and get a ton of scammy web pages on page one of Google. If you run that same search now you should get very relevant results to your search. Why is this? Because Google realized that the best way to rank sites is by rating their content. Better content equals better search engine results. This is why you will often hear the term “content is king.”

Basically Google is ranking sites according to the quality of their content, and one of the ways they do this is by tracking the backlinks to your site. The most organic version of these backlinks comes from people reading something on your site and sharing the link with others online. So how do you make this work for your wedding business? The first way is to create a blog on your website where you write articles that are helpful to a bride. But if blogging doesn’t work well for you there are a lot of other options to boosting your SEO. First make sure your website copy is well written, interesting, and informative. From there make sure your site is keyword optimized for a relevant search term, and check to make sure it is still relevant every year. Once that is done get your social media sites up and going with links back to your site. Post “re-tweetable” content and often include links back to your site. For more tips on improving your SEO results check out this article by Drew McLellan on his blog.

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