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Web Conditioning Get Your Site In Shape



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t’s not talked about much,      Think of haphazardly positioned   
but woodland animals are        websites as being interactive     
notoriously unresponsive to     slouches of sorts; they are out   
advertising. That’s why you don’t     of shape web entities sure to be  
expect to see many billboards         overlooked by search engines. In  
when camping. The website of a        order to shape up, the sloppy     
brick-and-mortar business acts        website must shed its baggage and 
much like a cyber billboard, a        get toned. And like physical      
vitally important informational       fitness there is no finish line,  
hub placed on the Internet with       just positive results from proper 
anticipation that visitors will       maintenance. While no one will    
come across the site to explore       confuse ICMediaDirect.com with    
its content. Yet, many                Bally’s or Equinox Gym anytime    
businesses, particularly the          soon there are some common        
small-to-midsized, have their         solutions hammered down for       
websites built with no thought of     clients. Websites have got to     
its positioning or upkeep;            become web conditioned or else    
inevitably these websites are         stay unnoticed.                   
parked in the interactive weeds,                                        
lost in the woods of a different      Hup, two, three, four…a web site  
sort. Too many of these smaller       in boot camp is treated a little  
businesses don’t realize the          differently than our GIs, perhaps 
missed opportunities of an            more harshly even. The first      
improperly aligned website. A         thing we do is slap the website   
representative website isn’t a        out of its isolation by building  
box to be crossed off a to-do         some links. This isolation, this  
list for a business, but instead      lack of “link love” as it’s       
an integral component of today’s      known, accounts for a great deal  
successful business.                  of why websites will sit          
                                      unnoticed – and too often         



business owners are too busy to                                         
notice that their website is          The search process has improved   
being ignored. And unless the         like gangbusters since then and   
business manager wants to drop        good real estate on the search    
everything and learn a new skill,     engine results page (SERP) is at  
he or she must find someone, a        a premium. My friend’s website    
professional hopefully, to do         had been rendered invisible, lost 
this. There isn’t any getting         in the weeds. People could only   
around this. Search engine            find it if they looked            
algorithms study links (as links      specifically for it by name; when 
serve as efficient                    using descriptive words such as   
e-recommendations) and do not         “Lounge + New York City +         
reward an absence of them – at        Dancing”, it was not even in the  
all.                                  top 100 mentioning of the major   
                                      search engines. As far as         
A classic example of an isolated      interest generated via the        
website that of a restaurant          Internet, he might as well have   
owned by a friend of mine. In the     built a billboard in the woods.   
first dot-com boom he spent a                                           
good deal of money to build a         And like an army recruit,         
state of the art website for his      candidates for web conditioning   
place. He loved the site, the         are broken down before they’re    
staff and his friends loved the       built up again, better and        
site, and everyone who was shown      stronger. This means that instead 
the site just loved it. But this      of merely posting the facts of    
was 1999 and search wasn’t a high     the website’s business with some  
priority; maybe it wasn’t wrong       nice pictures, we emphasize about 
back then to just assume that         what prospective customers might  
people would find the site            want it. For instance, an antique 
somehow.                              dealer specializing in foreign    



goods might think about what the      includes strategically placed     
kinds of items are most popular       keywords must now double as       
before creating a keyword list        effective copy. The visitor’s     
that people might enter into          attention must be held. This is   
search engines when looking for       the optimizing process, this is   
those kinds of things, as opposed     reworking a website. There are no 
to just announcing themselves as      shortcuts, no easy way to do it,  
a top dealer in foreign antiques.     but conditioning your website is  
People want to find what sellers      like maintaining good health – it 
have, not just to find dealers.       takes a bit of thought, some      
It sounds too obvious, but just       balance in the means of action,   
look at how much advertising is       and regular check ups. It’s a lot 
wasted in announcing greatness –      to list now, but thinking right   
web copy for a business should be     about websites done wrong is the  
designed along the lines of           first step to getting a website   
appealing to the visitor, in          well again. If you have a friend  
anticipation of what they want.       or relative whose website is      
It’s how search works.                listless and ignored – do him or  
                                      her a favor and tell them to get  
And once the visitor finds this       with the program.                 
site, the battle begins anew. The     

                              
language, the same language that      




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Joseph Pratt Media Analyst TEL: 212-563-6455 Email: joseph@icmediadirect.com http://ICMediaDirect.com http://www.icmediadirect.com


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