Making your site easy to find online is crucial for potential customers to find you!
One of the best ways to attract visitors to your site is to increase its ranking in search results. The higher your site is listed, the more traffic you're going to get. There's no fail-safe way to ensure that your site will appear in search results on any of the major search engines, but there are some things you can do to help your site get noticed.
Important: Please note that while Turbify can offer suggestions, we cannot guarantee your site's placement in search results or that it will be listed (indexed) at all.
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Build a quality site
This may seem obvious, but a site that looks professional and offers a good experience for visitors will get more traffic, more referrals, and, in the end, higher rankings. More than anything, search results are driven by the text content of your pages. For example: if you run a local business, mention the areas you serve on the homepage.
Our Website Builder tool makes it easy for anyone to build a professional-looking site even with no design experience. With Website Builder, you can focus on your site content instead of worrying about web-building mechanics, and our designers have made sure your site will look good. See this page for more information on getting started with Website Builder.
Cultivate links to your site
The more quality sites that link to yours, the more relevant your site will look to search engines, which can improve your site's ranking in search engine results.
Here are three ways to get other sites to link to yours:
- Contact businesses related (but not competitive) to your own and ask for a link exchange.
- Read and participate in popular forums that match your site's focus or interests. Many will let you include links to a website in your forum signature.
- Request that local organizations like your Chamber of Commerce include links to your business on their websites.
Write useful page descriptions
Your description tag summarizes your page's content. Some search engines use this description to help categorize your page, and a few even display it in search results. With this in mind, make sure your page's description is readable and interesting and also features one or two keywords that appear on the web page.
Keep your site fresh
Sites with frequently updated content typically rank higher in search engines.
- Update your site with recent news about your business, articles or tips related to your products or services, and anything else that will make your site a destination for readers who could become customers.
- Publish testimonials from your customers or positive reviews of your business in other publications (with links to those reviews).
- Above all, be sure your content is clear, every word is spelled correctly, and all your links work. The more professional your site appears; the more likely potential customers are to choose your business over your competitors.
Submit your site to search engines
To help you get noticed, submit your site to the biggest search engines for consideration in their search engine results.
You should submit your site regularly (monthly) if your site doesn't get regular updates. Note: Submitting your site is not instant. It may take 4-6 weeks for your site to index; please be patient.
