Sell yourself to the market
There are numerous ways of selling yourself to the market of your choice. You just have to determine which ways can help you rank higher on search engines. Here are the basic and easy ways you may want to try.
You have to concentrate on you business–the services and products you offer and prepare quotes for different types of clients if necessary. Introduce yourself to the market of your choice. Here are the ways of doing it:
Create your own website or personal portfolio. With just 9 per year for domain name plus 36 for hosting, you will be able to get a decent web space. Look for online tutorials regarding web development so you can build your own or just let friends help you with the design and development of your site. If you can afford a developer, then that would mean more convenience to you.
Participate to different community forums. Be friendly and don’t go straight ahead telling them the details of your business cause they might think of you as a spammer. If you are welcomed, that’s the time you can introduce them to your products and services. Be sure to review their forum rules and post in a correct category. Consider being a regular member by posting often, helping members search for what they are looking for, and by giving good advices concerning topics you are an expert of.
Join internet groups of a particular interest. Internet groups such as Yahoo! Groups or Google Groups are not the same as community forums. Groups are more focused on a specific subject matter. Make sure you join a group that perfectly describes your business.
Create signatures and use it. Your signature is not just for display but will be a good reference to your business. Signatures are placed below email messages, forum profiles or posts. These signatures appear everytime you send email or post into forums and appear as links to your site. Remember in SEO, the more relevant site that links to your site, the more page rank you get. You can have a signature like this on your email:
-- Jonathan Discipulo Philbyte Web Services http://www.philbyte.com/
And you can have this signature for your community forum profile or groups profile:
Philbyte Web Services http://www.philbyte.com/
Always put a link under your posts and email messages so your audience will have the chance to reach you and know more about your business. Those are some approaches to selling yourself to your target audience and eventually will help your business visible to search engines.
