Thanks to good search engine optimization, your visitor has found your website.  Because your web page looked so great, he or she spent nearly two seconds deciding whether or not this page might hold what they are looking for.  Because your page was clean and polished, had attention-grabbing headlines that complimented and played off the images on the page and promised to deliver information your web visitor is seeking, they have decided to actually read some of your content.

So far, so good.  Now what?  Are you going to talk about your company, product or service?  Good ad writers say that is a common mistake. There’s a time and place to describe your product or service, but not yet.  Think about your website visitor.  What issue or problem are they here to solve?  That’s what you want to talk about. 

Not many people look for a mouse trap, unless they’re having a problem with mice.  People don’t buy mouse traps – they buy solutions.

If we were to boil down marketing concepts to just a couple of key issues they would be -

• help the customer see that they have a problem
• help the customer see that you hold the solution
• make the customer want to own that solution
• make them want it now
• effective call to action

If you talk about your visitor’s problem and how your product or service is the right solution for them, you’re on the right path.

Of course, we don’t have time here to get into communication theory and detailed marketing principles, but do understand that your web pages’ effectiveness depends on those principles being properly applied.

Remember, you can't just take one of the issues we are discussing and build an effective website. It takes all of them. But how to write content that holds your visitors' interest, is presented in a manner consistent with effective marketing techniques AND worded in a way to ensure good search engine ranking?

If your business doesn't have at least one marketing professional who is also knowledgeable in search engine optimization, to help with your website content, let CompuSolver help you build a website that can reach your goals.

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