What SEO cannot do

A carefully thought through SEO campaign can get you to the top of the search engine rankings, but it cannot encourage customers to buy your products or services where there is little demand for them. Equally, you may be listed high up in the search engines, but for search terms that no one uses.

Unfortunately there is very little you can do about creating demand where none exists. But you can work to ensure that you are targeting your optimum keywords. To do this we advise you to perform a thorough keyword research first before embarking on your SEO strategy. Remember that a successful SEO strategy is not necessarily about targeting the broadest, most popular search terms, but more importantly it is about identifying keywords that people actually use, and can potentially lead to a business deal.

When working on your SEO campaign, try to avoid such unethical techniques as:

• Keyword stuffing (excessive repetition of your keywords in the text or meta tags in order to influence ranking).
• Use of keywords in the meta tags that are not reflected in the page content.
• Creating multiple pages with virtually identical content.
• Automatically generated doorway pages which contain little user oriented content.