Online Marketing

Online Marketing helps your website rank higher in search engines by providing backlinks to your website, which tells Google Search that your website is popular.

Online Marketing and Backlinks

Just publishing a website is not enough, as the website should also be promoted in order to rank well in search engines. At T. Brooks Web Design I promote your website through my Online Marketing service (which I also call Online Promotion or Online Listings).

My online marketing service involves adding your company information to high-ranking, popular business listing websites and directories, such as Google Business Profile (formerly called "Google My Business"), Bing Local, Manta, etc. When search engines like Google see that reputable websites are linking back to your website (called "backlinks"), they assume that your website is popular as well, and will tend to rank your website higher.

Google Business Profile Optimization

If your business serves local counties and towns, having a Google Business Profile is going to be VERY important. This is how many people may find your company when they're searching for local services, often even before your website comes up! The more active your profile is, the higher it can rank in local search results (the Google "map" section towards the top of the page).

My Google Business Profile Optimization service ensures that your profile is always active. This service includes responding to customer reviews, reporting negative reviews that go against Google's terms of service, posting of content, question/answer section, and general maintenance and monitoring including any necessary changes to wording, descriptions, and lists of services.

Better Online Marketing with T. Brooks Web Design

There are many companies out there that provide online marketing services, although they often give this service more creative names, such as "Local Search Marketing". However, I do things a lot differently than almost all of these other online marketing firms:

• My fees are significantly less than the outrageous fees that most other online marketing firms charge.
• I submit all of your listings manually, by hand. Most online marketing firms use an automated process that globally sends out your information to directories, which almost always results in errors. If you're wondering why your roofing company is listed all over the internet under "pizza restaurants", that may be why.
• I put your company information on only the most reputable, trustworthy, popular online listing websites. Many online marketing firms brag that they'll add you to 100 or even 1,000 directories, so they can justify their exorbitant fees. But with online promotion, more isn't necessarily better, and can actually work to your disadvantage. There are only 20 or 30 high-ranking directories that Google tends to like. Adding your information to questionable, obscure directories violates Google Search's guidelines and can get your website blacklisted! The official Google Search Central Link Schemes article specifically warns against "low-quality directory" links.

Read my blogs for information about online marketing, customer reviews, Google Ads, scams, and more.

Contact me anytime at 609-914-1318 (phone or text), or email me, and let's talk about the difference I can make for your business by adding your company information to high ranking, reputable listing sites and directories in order to provide quality backlinks for your website that can improve your Google search ranking.