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Video Replay: Not Enough Home Care Leads? Maybe It’s Your Website!?

Hi all, if you didn't get the chance to join is for our latest free webinar "Maybe it's your website", be sure to check out the video replay, don't miss this valuable information. The Q/A at the end is awesome too!

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Valerie VanBooven RN BSN
Owner/ Managing Partner
LTC Expert Publications
Phone: 888-404-1513
Email: valerie@ltcep.com

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LTC Expert Publications announces the launch of their new Client Communications Center: Instant Access 24/7 to All Information

 

(February 2012) LTC Expert Publications is proud to announce the launch of a proprietary customer service and communications portal for many of LTCEP's larger clients. This portal allows clients to instantly see how their websites rank for certain keyword phrases, all of their social media, blog post and video content, leads and much more.

Roland Lacey, an SEO expert and programmer with many years of experience was instrumental in building the proprietary portal for LTCEP. The information provided to clients is accessible 24/7 and gives them the ability to use one username and password to access almost all of their accounts.

LTCEP is now the only elder care and senior service marketing company providing this level of instant access and unsurpassed communication for clients.

"We've always known that being able to see results instantly and to calculate ROI is a high priority for our clients. The addition of this portal allows this to happen 24/7. We also use this portal to provide access to educational videos, webinar replays, and tutorials on blogging and more. It's totally comprehensive and we are proud to provide this level of support." says Valerie VanBooven RN BSN Co-Owner of LTCEP.

George Novoson, Co-Owner of LTCEP adds, "The way businesses handle customer service has changed dramatically over the last few years. In order to meet the needs and demands of business owners, this is one step that we knew would be essential for our customers and provide the best service possible, 24/7."


The new Client Communications Center will allow LTCEP clients to do all of the following:

·         Easily track search rankings over time for greater insight into how their ongoing SEO efforts impact keyword positions across major search engines. All without downloading, installing or updating any SEO software.

  • Web Rankings Overview
  • Are they on the first page of Google for any of their keyword phrases? They can find out! One look through the report overview lets them quickly identify major successes, key trouble spots and the latest trends and changes in their search engine rankings and keyword positions.
  • Flexible Report Views
    •  Watch individual keyword performance fluctuate over time, and check each URL to see where it ranks for specific search terms. Filter by position or search engine, and sort by gains, losses or rank.
  • Safe Queries
    • Our portal runs the queries for them without risk to their own local IP address.
  • Scheduled Reporting
    • Scheduled reports to automatically get the updated data on the first and fifteenth of the month.
  • Competitor Identification & Tracking
    • They can see who their competitors are and how they compare. The Reporter identifies their top competitors so they can track their search rankings alongside their own.
  • Downloadable & Exportable
    •  Download reports to PDF for sharing with clients, colleagues and supervisors. Export data to XML or CSV files to use in spreadsheets or add to their records.
  • Traffic Tracker
    • See the exact traffic to their website over the last 60 days, and even as recently as today.
    • Learn the exact keyword phrase that the visitor typed in to find their website, and exactly what page they visited.
    • See their lead reports instantly.
  • Trackable Phone Number
    •  Log into their own trackable number account to instantly see the number of calls generated by their online marketing efforts. Here the recordings. Note leads vs employment calls etc.
  • Social Media
    • All social media accounts are listed with usernames and passwords and are instantly accessible from the new portal. This includes Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and more.
  • Instant Access to Content
    • ·         Wondering when their last blog post went up or what it said? Instantly see all of their latest blog posts and content.

    For More Information about LTC Expert Publications and their Customer Communications Center for clients, visit them online at www.LTCSocialMark.com or call 888-404-1513.

    Regards,

    Valerie VanBooven RN BSN
    Owner/ Managing Partner
    LTC Expert Publications
    Phone: 888-404-1513
    Email: valerie@ltcep.com

    See our client samples: http://MySeniorService.com
    Register for our webinars and marketing videos: http://LTCSocialMark.com

    REMINDER! Join us for “Maybe it’s your website?”

     

    Maybe it’s your website?
    Join us for a Webinar on February 16
    Space is limited.
    Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
    https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/907627130
    Join us for an enlightening presentation that shows you exactly how our team develops and delivers lead producing websites for home care agencies and assisted living facilities using some of our latest proprietary programs and information! 

    Every home care agency owner and elder care marketer should get a glimpse at the possibilities for their organization. 

    Lots of Q/A time with Valerie VanBooven and George Novoson! 

    Join US!!!

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    Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
    Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
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    Maybe it’s your website?


    In this newsletter: 1. Maybe it's your website? 2. Shared Leads vs Exclusive Lead Programs….which is best? 3. Did you see this 20 minute Home Care Leads video?
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    Maybe it's your website?

    Or maybe it's not, but I bet I can show you a few tips and tricks that will immediately generate more leads for your home care or assisted living business.
    Our next educational, fun and informative webinar is Thursday February 16, 2012 at 3pm eastern, 2pm central, 1pm MTN, 12noon Pacific.

    Space is limited.Maybe it's your website webinar, register today! (FREE)
    Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
    https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/907627130

    Join us for an enlightening presentation that shows you exactly how our team develops and delivers lead producing websites for home care agencies and assisted living facilities using some of our latest proprietary programs and information! 

    Every home care agency owner and elder care marketer should get a glimpse at the possibilities for their organization. 

    Lots of Q/A time with Valerie VanBooven and George Novoson! 

    Join US!!!


    Shared Home Care Leads or Exclusive Home Care Leads? The answer to the question….
    FEBRUARY 7, 2012 BY  LEAVE A COMMENT (EDIT)
    There are an increasing numbers of Home Care Agencies and Assisted Living Facilities who are using internet leads as their one of their primary marketing tools because they believe in the power of the internet to reach their target market and to increase their client base.

    Seasoned elder care marketers and even new elder care marketers are interested to know if an exclusive home care lead marketing (or assisted living lead marketing) program will really make a difference in their sales….or would it be better to purchase standard shared leads (ie eldecarelink, service magic etc).Shared Leads vs Exclusive Leads, Which is Better?

    To help you decide which one is better, here are the advantages and disadvantages.

    The cost of an exclusive lead program can, on the surface, appear to be more expensive than standard shared leads programs. However, the closing ratio is usually much higher with an exclusive lead.

    Of course, this is not guaranteed because there is still a dependency on your delivering and selling skills.

    Exclusive lead programs give the elder care marketing professional or home care agency owner an advantage because there is less competition, less wasted time, and higher Return on Investment (ROI).

    Exclusive Lead Marketing Programs should include the following solutions. Missing any one of these could lead to a failed program.

    1. A lead capture website- specifically designed with your target market in mind, these sites are designed to get the prospect to take an action- either make a phone call or fill out a short form.

    2. Complete search engine optimization on your lead capture website for every local city/town/municipality that your home care agency or assisted living facility might service.

    3. Natural search engine rankings (not just pay-per-click) on page #1 of Google for dozens of keyword phrases.

    4. A minimum of weekly blog posting, 2x per month video production.

    5. Call tracking and recorded phone number that dials straight through to the office.

    6. A professionally managed Google Adwords campaign for more competitive markets thatminimizes job seekers and increases quality leads. This campaign should be run by an organization that understands the nature of the research and buying process of the elder care market, not by a "generalist" organization who serves plumbers, roofers, car dealerships and construction companies.

    Of course, there is still competition even when you purchase an exclusive leads program because the prospects may still shop around.

    Here's a sample scenario:

    • Sue the Home Care Agency Owner is buying 30 shared leads per month at a cost of $18.00 per lead.
    • $18×30= $540 per month. These are shared leads.
    • Three other Home Care Agencies in her area are also paying for these leads and marketing to these consumers.
    • Sue closes, on average, 1 lead per month from this marketing strategy.
    • She's paying $540 for one close per month.
    • Some months none of the leads close.
    • Her average client signs up for 8 hours per week.
    • She charges $21.00 per hour for a total of $168 per week in billing.
    • It takes her about 3.2 weeks to break even.
    • The cycle starts all over again.
    • Sue isn't making much money in the formula.

    What if Sue's scenario looked like this:

     

    • Sue the Home Care Agency owner spends $1050 per month on her own exclusive lead marketing program.
    • $500 is for pay-per-click campaign clicks (ie Google Adwords Clicks, managed professionally at no additional charge), and the other $550 is for a completely optimized website designed for home care lead capture, weekly blogging, videos 2x per month, and within a short time her new website is on the first page of Google for several of her local towns for various keyword phrases.
    • Sue gets 10-15 REAL leads per month, exclusive to her.
    • These leads are usually phone calls to her office, and sometimes they come in via a form filled out on her website.
    • Of those leads, she closes 3 each month.
    • Her average client signs up for 8 hours per week.
    • She charges $21.00 per hour for a total of $504 per week in billing.
    • It takes her about 2 weeks to break even.
    • She enjoys a profit each month, and the cycle continues, and gets better.
    • Each week she watches her website move up the ladder in the search engine results because she is not relying solely on pay-per-click to attract leads.
    • She is eventually seeing more exclusive leads because she dominates natural search.
    • She can decrease the cost of her Pay-per-click campaign as she sees increasing natural results.
    • Sue also has a built in e-newsletter that automatically follows up with all of her inquiries, even 6 months later.

    Scenario #1 looks like the least expensive option, but the reality is that it doesn't do Sue much good at all. She has not made an investment in her own website, her own content, and her own internet presence. She running on a wheel that doesn't help her business very much at all.

    Your scenario may be similar to one of these, or completely different.

    Just remember that although a shared lead cost at $18.00 per lead sounds cheap, but at the end of the day, they may be more expensive than you think.

    Invest in your own internet presence. Build a program that will benefit your business for years to come. One that you can help manage and direct, but that is completely done for you. Get back to working ON your business instead of FOR your business chasing shared leads every month.

    Invest in you, and reap the rewards!


    Did you miss the Home Care Leads Webinar?

    Watch this 20 minute gem!


    Regards,

    Owner/ Managing Partner

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    Register for our webinars and marketing videos: http://LTCSocialMark.com

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    Shared Home Care Leads or Exclusive Home Care Leads? The answer to the question….

    There are an increasing numbers of Home Care Agencies and Assisted Living Facilities who are using internet leads as their one of their primary marketing tools because they believe in the power of the internet to reach their target market and to increase their client base.
     

    Seasoned elder care marketers and even new elder care marketers are interested to know if an exclusive home care lead marketing (or assisted living lead marketing) program will really make a difference in their sales….or would it be better to purchase standard shared leads (ie eldecarelink, service magic etc).
     

    To help you decide which one is better, here are the advantages and disadvantages.
     

    The cost of an exclusive lead program can, on the surface, appear to be more expensive than standard shared leads programs. However, the closing ratio is usually much higher with an exclusive lead.
     

    Of course, this is not guaranteed because there is still a dependency on your delivering and selling skills.
     

    Exclusive lead programs give the elder care marketing professional or home care agency owner an advantage because there is less competition, less wasted time, and higher Return on Investment (ROI).
     

    Exclusive Lead Marketing Programs should include the following solutions. Missing any one of these could lead to a failed program.
     

    1. A lead capture website- specifically designed with your target market in mind, these sites are designed to get the prospect to take an action- either make a phone call or fill out a short form.
     

    2. Complete search engine optimization on your lead capture website for every local city/town/municipality that your home care agency or assisted living facility might service.
     

    3. Natural search engine rankings (not just pay-per-click) on page #1 of Google for dozens of keyword phrases.
     

    4. A minimum of weekly blog posting, 2x per month video production.
     

    5. Call tracking and recorded phone number that dials straight through to the office.
     

    6. A professionally managed Google Adwords campaign for more competitive markets that minimizes job seekers and increases quality leads. This campaign should be run by an organization that understands the nature of the research and buying process of the elder care market, not by a “generalist” organization who serves plumbers, roofers, car dealerships and construction companies.
     

    Of course, there is still competition even when you purchase an exclusive leads program because the prospects may still shop around.
     

    Here’s a sample scenario:

    • Sue the Home Care Agency Owner is buying 30 shared leads per month at a cost of $18.00 per lead.
    • $18×30= $540 per month. These are shared leads.
    • Three other Home Care Agencies in her area are also paying for these leads and marketing to these consumers.
    • Sue closes, on average, 1 lead per month from this marketing strategy.
    • She’s paying $540 for one close per month.
    • Some months none of the leads close.
    • Her average client signs up for 8 hours per week.
    • She charges $21.00 per hour for a total of $168 per week in billing.
    • It takes her about 3.2 weeks to break even.
    • The cycle starts all over again.
    • Sue isn’t making much money in the formula.

    What if Sue’s scenario looked like this:

     

    • Sue the Home Care Agency owner spends $1050 per month on her own exclusive lead marketing program.
    • $500 is for pay-per-click campaign clicks (ie Google Adwords Clicks, managed professionally at no additional charge), and the other $550 is for a completely optimized website designed for home care lead capture, weekly blogging, videos 2x per month, and within a short time her new website is on the first page of Google for several of her local towns for various keyword phrases.
    • Sue gets 10-15 REAL leads per month, exclusive to her.
    • These leads are usually phone calls to her office, and sometimes they come in via a form filled out on her website.
    • Of those leads, she closes 3 each month.
    • Her average client signs up for 8 hours per week.
    • She charges $21.00 per hour for a total of $504 per week in billing.
    • It takes her about 2 weeks to break even.
    • She enjoys a profit each month, and the cycle continues, and gets better.
    • Each week she watches her website move up the ladder in the search engine results because she is not relying solely on pay-per-click to attract leads.
    • She is eventually seeing more exclusive leads because she dominates natural search.
    • She can decrease the cost of her Pay-per-click campaign as she sees increasing natural results.
    • Sue also has a built in e-newsletter that automatically follows up with all of her inquiries, even 6 months later.

    Scenario #1 looks like the least expensive option, but the reality is that it doesn’t do Sue much good at all. She has not made an investment in her own website, her own content, and her own internet presence. She running on a wheel that doesn’t help her business very much at all.

     

    Your scenario may be similar to one of these, or completely different.

     

    Just remember that although a shared lead cost at $18.00 per lead sounds cheap, but at the end of the day, they may be more expensive than you think.

     

    Invest in your own internet presence. Build a program that will benefit your business for years to come. One that you can help manage and direct, but that is completely done for you. Get back to working ON your business instead of FOR your business chasing shared leads every month.

     

    Invest in you, and reap the rewards!

    An Important Step Forward for Alzheimer’s Research

    Earlier today the Obama Administration announced a commitment of new resources in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.

    This is an important step for our nation, our Alzheimer’s advocacy movement, and the development and implementation of an effective National Alzheimer’s Plan. We are beginning to see the tangible results of our efforts, and we owe it all to you!

    After the unanimous, bipartisan passage and enactment of the National Alzheimer's Project Act last January, Americans affected by the disease made impassioned demands during the Alzheimer’s Association’s nationwide public input sessions. You were clear: Alzheimer's can't wait, not when more than 10,000 baby boomers a day turn age 65 and not when it costs our nation $183 billion a year. And since this past week, you spoke again with over 100,000 people signing our petition so far, urging the administration to ensure that all resources and expertise within the government's reach be brought to bear on this issue, even in this challenging fiscal environment.

    Today’s announcement of an additional $50 million for Alzheimer's research over the coming months, and an additional $106 million in the coming year to research, caregiver support and education is an important step in the right direction to defeat this devastating disease.

    Measured against the scale of the crisis, today marks a very important step, but we need to do much, much more. We believe the Administration and Congress understand this point. Yet we also know that during this critical time, progress will not continue unless Alzheimer’s advocates like you keep calling for action.

    Thank you for your continued commitment to this cause. You made today happen. Now it’s time to call for the next step. The single most important thing you can do in this moment is to encourage more and more people to sign the petition. This expands our movement, raises our voice, and sends a clear message to our elected leaders.

    Sincerely,

    Robert Egge
    Vice President, Public Policy
    Alzheimer's Association

    Regards,

    Valerie VanBooven RN BSN
    Owner/ Managing Partner
    LTC Expert Publications
    Phone: 888-404-1513
    Email: valerie@ltcep.com

    See our client samples: http://MySeniorService.com
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    National Alzheimer’s Project Act Petition

    Dear Friends,
    I just signed a petition to President Obama asking him to fulfill the potential of the National Alzheimer's Project Act. Now it's your turn to make a difference. It's easy and only takes a few moments.

    Alzheimer's is devastating to families from every walk of life. It is the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S., and there is no way to cure, prevent or even slow its progress. The economic cost in this country is staggering: $183 billion a year and this will skyrocket to $1 trillion by 2050. We need a commitment from the government to help us end Alzheimer's. 

    With your help, our message will be heard that Alzheimer's can't wait.

    Thank you!
            

    Regards,

    Valerie VanBooven RN BSN
    Owner/ Managing Partner
    LTC Expert Publications
    Phone: 888-404-1513
    Email: valerie@ltcep.com

    See our client samples: http://MySeniorService.com
    Register for our webinars and marketing videos: http://LTCSocialMark.com

    Stop What You’re Doing, And Go See What Google Thinks It Knows About You

    Stop What You're Doing, And Go See What Google Thinks It Knows About You

    Want to know what Google thinks of you?

    Log in to your Google account and click on this link see all the demographic information Google has inferred about you based on your web-surfing habits. (Via Casey Johnston at Ars Technica)

    How good is it at guessing?

    Regards,

    Valerie VanBooven RN BSN
    Owner/ Managing Partner
    LTC Expert Publications
    Phone: 888-404-1513
    Email: valerie@ltcep.com

    See our client samples: http://MySeniorService.com
    Register for our webinars and marketing videos: http://LTCSocialMark.com

    Home Care Leads Webinar- You’ve Gotta See This!

    Space is limited.
    Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
    https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/471064234
    Join us for an enlightening presentation that shows you exactly how our team develops and delivers leads for home care agencies using some of our latest proprietary programs and information! 

    Every home care agency owner and marketer should get a glimpse at the possibilities for their organization. 

    Lots of Q/A time with Valerie VanBooven and George Novoson! 

    Join US!!!

    Title: Home Care Leads Webinar!
    Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
    Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
    After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
    System Requirements
    PC-based attendees
    Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
    Macintosh®-based attendees
    Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer


    Regards,

    Valerie VanBooven RN BSN
    Owner/ Managing Partner
    LTC Expert Publications
    Phone: 888-404-1513
    Email: valerie@ltcep.com

    See our client samples: http://MySeniorService.com
    Register for our webinars and marketing videos: http://LTCSocialMark.com

    How to Create Your Home Care Landing Page – The Crucial Role Of Psychology-Driven SEO

    The original version of this article can be found at http://searchengineland.com/what-comes-before-the-landing-page-the-crucial-role-of-psychology-driven-seo-105792

    Your ‘landing page’ is the first step a visitor takes into your online universe. But that page is actually the last step in your strategic plan to attract those visitors.

    You see, a lot more goes into the planning process of your Web traffic strategy than just the design of your landing page. And while it is certainly true that you don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression, it’s practically worthless to impress the wrong audience!

    That’s why what comes before the landing page matters more than what’s on it.

    Can You Read Your Prospect’s Mind?

    Let’s say you own a home care agency and are looking for clients like Martha, a busy 40 year old daughter with an aging Mom (Judy age 75) whom she's been helping more and more lately because of Judy's inability to get around after a recent fall. Martha also has a 15 year old daughter and a 17 year old son who are very busy with soccer, gymnastics and more. Martha works a full time job, as does her husband Bob. They have very little time to devote to Judy and they know she needs more attention at home.

    How can you make your home care agency's landing page appeal to her?

    Obviously not by showcasing your home care agency's history, the new custom painted/wrapped van for caregivers, or even your recent certification status. And most definitely not by using words like ‘cheap’ or ‘economy’ – terms that are singularly don't seem good (because she might get what she pays for!)!

    By reading your ideal home care prospect’s mind, you can tailor your landing page to speak directly to his or her deepest desires and needs. A great SEO strategy for your business would factor in keyword research and analysis, but be driven by buyer psychology.

    You’ll figure out your audience’s needs and urges, challenges and problems, and their heartfelt wishes that your home care business can help solve. You’ll also understand buying cycles and how potential buyers research things. You will analyze the intent and motivation centered around solving a problem that is inherent in every keyword and search phrase they use while looking for your business.

    When you get this right, you’ll be able to skyrocket your conversion rates.

    Speak Their Language, Feel Their Pain

    Martha feels guilty. She's been totally divided between her own family needs, her job, and her Mom. She knows he must make some changes and get some help so that her Mom is safe in her own home. So she’s on the Web, searching for an answer.

    It all depends upon your SEO strategy.

    If you rightly concluded that keyword phrases like “home care” and “senior care” (with high search volumes) are what you must target to appeal to clients like Martha, then you’ll plan your landing page to focus on people looking for ideas on how to make their loved safe and happy in their own home.

    You may reinforce Martha's guilty conscience and easily convince her that your "starter" home care package is a great way to gently ease Mom into some companion care services.

    By explaining your home care agency services in terms that make Martha feel good about herself, you shift the decision making from a perspective of price or quality to one of emotional fulfillment, subtly shifting things to a higher plane on the Maslowian hierarchy of needs.

    Interestingly enough, it also makes it easier to close the sale!

    Give Them What They Want

    Indeed, the right strategy for your landing page may even lead you to craft package deals that fits customers’ needs like a glove. But doing this requires detailed insight into your market’s desires, and clarity about the home care market segment that you serve.

    Nothing about this process is static. While an approach that pushes Martha's emotional triggers may work well, it must be modified to suit the analytical and logical part of her brain when she's searching a month later for a transportation service to take her Mom to a Doctor's appointment.

    Keyword research and SEO can help estimate the volume of prospective buyers or people in search of a solution, so that it is possible to create compelling content for landing pages targeted directly at buyers searching with generic keyword phrases.

    These can work so well that even prospects who haven’t heard of your brand before, or aren’t sure if they even want the solution you offer, are converted into buyers through the near-magical resonance created by a landing page tailored to their emotional needs.

    The trick, then, is finding the right generic search phrases to target – and knowing your prospect’s mind well enough to persuade visitors into taking the action you want. This will boost earnings massively.

    Only A Poor Craftsman Blames His Tools

    The tools today’s SEO experts have access to are powerful enough to blow any competition out of the water, especially when combined with strategic insight into the psychology of one’s ideal prospects.

    Keyword research is important to assess the size of your market and find the exact search phrases around which to craft content. Excellent software and tools are available to help with this.

    But what makes a 1% to 2% conversion rate get much higher, and transforms the impact of your landing pages, is a deep understanding of the psychology of your prospective customers.

    Web analytics help you track the actions visitors take on your site, so that you can see what they do and then try to find out why they do it – and whether or not they behave in the manner you expected them to.

    This is what makes analytics data valuable. When this information is anchored in business strategy and viewed in the backdrop of economic end-points, it helps fine tune the online selling process in a reliable and well-informed manner, instead of playing costly guessing games.

    The pity is that most home care businesses merely employ Google Analytics as a traffic counter. Don’t limit yourself to that.

    Focus on the right key performance indicators (KPIs) and critically examine the data against the metrics you expect to see when you build a process based on the SOSTAC marketing framework (Situation analysis, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, Action and Control).

    If At First You Don’t Succeed…
    Try again.  And again.  Eventually, you’ll get it right.

    Conversion rate optimization involves constant testing and tweaking.

    At each stage, you measure what works and keep doing more of it, dropping the tweaks that didn’t work as well. Blindly directing more traffic at a process that doesn’t convert well, or worse, fails to target the visitor correctly, is wasteful and frustrating.

    If your search phrase analysis confirms a huge demand for the solution you’re providing, then there’s often a good reason why people don’t buy – you are not mirroring their needs.

    It is your responsibility, through the adoption of an intelligent SEO strategy, to provide the specific solution to their needs by laser focusing your landing page on the exact issues and problems that the keyword phrase tells you they have.

    Even after you’re certain this has been fixed, you still have room for improvement. Say you’re buying traffic through a pay-per-click system like Google Adwords. When you measure conversion strength for the different keywords you are targeting, you’ll find not all of them are equally effective.

    Investing some money on a quality check like this will point you to the best keywords that are most likely to convert. These terms can then become the target of your comprehensive (and long lasting) SEO strategy for organic traffic.

    And last – but not least – your copy on the landing page can make a big difference in converting visitors into buyers.

    A professional SEO copywriter may cost you more money upfront. But if the copy raises your conversion rate from 1% to 6%, wouldn’t it be worthwhile? Ask yourself what a 3% increase in sales will mean to your bottom-line and you’ll quickly be able to rationalize the higher expense.

    In almost every case, good SEO is not a cost but an investment. An investment in the future growth of your business. And one of the most cost effective options among all marketing methods we know today.

    SEO lasts for a long time. No one pulls the plug on a great SEO strategy. And even when you look at it from a purely economic perspective, you’ll see that it’s an investment that will gain value for years to come.

    So that’s what goes on behind the scenes when you engineer your home care landing page design.

    As a home care business owner, you cannot indulge in the luxury of deciding what your people should like. Your customers are in control. You must give them what they want.

    Keyword research and strategic SEO will tell you exactly what they want. Before wasting your money on something that won’t work, ask your SEO strategist to safeguard and secure your investments by integrating SEO into other components of your digital marketing strategy.

    Always keep in mind the important fact that your landing page should not just be ‘search engine friendly’… it needs to be buyer friendly if it is to deliver the highest value to your business, in the present and far into the future.

    About The Author: Trond Lyngbø is a Senior SEO Strategist at Metronet Norge with over 10 years of experience. Trond is the author of the books "Importance of SEO for Your Online Business" and "Power Social Media Marketing".

    http://searchengineland.com/what-comes-before-the-landing-page-the-crucial-role-of-psychology-driven-seo-105792

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