Building organic traffic is the most effective way to grow your online business. While using tactics such as PPC and online advertising can get eyeballs to your site and can serve as a major part of an online marketing campaign, organic traffic that naturally flows to your site has its own benefits. When you reach customers organically, you build online loyalty and trust and increase the likelihood that they will share your site with their friends and family, helping it to “go viral” and grow quickly.

So what is the best way to do this? eVisible has many different tactics that we use with customers to building organic traffic. Here are three that have proven to be the most effective:

Publishing Early and Often: You don’t want to have a limited amount of content available when you first launch; similarly, you don’t want to publish all of your content right away and then go weeks or even months before you add new content. Make sure you are publishing multiple pieces of content every day and try to publish three or four times a day in the early stages of your launch.

Listen to Your Customers: By doing the proper market research, you can have a strong idea of which topics are right for your initial content rollout. eVisible’s simple keyword research tool  will give you a good idea about which topics will naturally fit the keywords you want to target. From there, keep an eye on your metrics and see which topics are getting views and shares; you’ll want to increase your attention on these, since it’s clear it’s what customers are interested in reading more about.

Back Your Content Up With Facts: When you first launch your site, you won’t have the credibility and trust that an established website will have with readers. One way to gain the trust of your readers is to publish content loaded with references to factual information. Including links to research, analysis and news from trusted sources makes you look more reliable in the process.

President Obama has declared June 16-22 as “Small Business Week” in America. It’s a way to recognize the small businesses that drive the American economy. This isn’t the first Small Business Week – it goes back to 1963 – but this one is particularly important because of the impact the recent economic downturn has had on small businesses. In the current economy, small businesses need to use every tool necessary to stay ahead of larger competitors.

If you are a small business owner, one of the ways you can do this is to leverage the Internet. Small business Internet marketing can help your small business reach customers throughout the world. However, if you are in a competitive market, you’ll need help to make sure that people can find your website. eVisible specializes in helping small businesses gain visibility online by using a variety of proven of tactics including:

SEO: Getting your website to rank highly for specific keywords is about more than just luck. You need to research which keywords will be the most effective to target and have a dedicated game plan for how to increase your page rankings. By doing search engine optimization correctly, your site can rank higher than larger competitors and get more clicks from curious customers.

Social Media: Establishing a strong social media presence is a highly effective online marketing tool for small businesses. By leveraging outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, you can make a personal connection with potential customers that makes you stand out from larger competitors. A strong social media campaign lets happy customers spread the word about your company to their friends, one of the most powerful forms of marketing.

Directory Submissions: Local directory submissions help to ensure that potential customers have all the information they need to choose your business for their needs. Customers want to know as much as they can about any small business, including positive reviews, pictures and contact information.

eVisible wants to help take your small business to the next level. Find out more about our small business services <https://www.evisible.co/small-business-solutions/> and contact us today for a free consultation.

When it comes to content creation, finding the right balance of information and effective marketing of your business is difficult. One of the driving factors of your content is to get customers, but the best way to do this is to present them with intriguing and useful content that will help them in their business lives. eVisible has years of experience with content marketing services and we’ve learned some of the most common mistakes that businesses make when they create their own content.

Here’s what to avoid when it comes to your own SEO copywriting or any content written by an outside agency:

Unreadable content: When it comes to online content, writing that is crisp, focused and to the point always has the best chance of catching — and holding — the reader’s attention. You want to avoid run-on sentences or using “purple prose.” One way to avoid this is by using the Content Readability score provider offered by eVisible. It will give you an idea of how easily the average reader can process your content.

Diminishing returns: Many content creation campaigns start out with a bang, as companies are brimming with information they want to share with their customers. But in many cases, the quality of the writing quickly declines as the well of immediate story ideas runs dry. Combat this by thinking of questions your customers might be asking, reviewing your competition for story ideas and adding a personal touch to your writing.

Not involving the customers: The best corporate blogs and other online marketing campaigns feel like a conversation between a company and its customers. You can encourage your customers to get active and involved to keep it from feeling like you are simply spitting marketing copy at them. Have them submit pictures of them with your product at famous tourist attractions or unusual sites. Invite customers to write guest posts explaining new or interesting ways they’ve used your product or service. Make sure you make it clear to customers that you own the content they submit to you in order to avoid any legal headaches down the road.