Sunday, January 31, 2010

How To Get Awesome Yoga Business SEO

By Daniel Singleton

Have you noticed that there are more and more yoga studios? Not only that, some are becoming fairly elaborate facilities.

Even in mid-sized towns and cities there are numerous yoga studios. You could say the competition among yoga studios is heating up.

Do you know what that means for yoga studio owners? More competition. Yes, there must be more people doing yoga, but there are also more providers. Whether you're a new studio or have been around awhile, you need to do some good marketing.

It's also a fact that consumers and customers from all walks of life searching for all types of services go to the Internet to make purchases. They also go online to research purchases. Yoga studios are no exception.

To get started with SEO, research your keywords. Brainstorm which terms your customers will use. Then go to Google's ad words keyword research tool to see what other terms arise. You'll be surprised.

Not only do you want to rank well for "yoga-related" search terms, but you need to balance it with your geographic search terms. Your business is geographically-based and so you must anticipate geographically-based searches.

You can use keywords on every page of your site - take advantage of each page. Plan it out and get every specific yoga style you teach as a keyword.

Don't just list meta keywords; they are now next to useless. You must insert your keywords in the titles, headings, and written body of your site. You can use 1 word keywords, or long-tail keywords with 5 to7 words. Research, research, research.

Once you have your keywords in your site, it's time for some off-site work. The Internet is a web of links - that's how you must think. That means you need links to your site. The more the merrier. However, quality of a link is important as well.

Where to get links to your site? First of all, write great content. Write a blog and attract links. Other tricks require you to use SEO products that help you build awesome links to your website which will in short order get you to page one of Google.

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