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Old 03-04-2009, 10:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Since your question is most likely about sales, and since you are in a service business, then becoming an expert (or getting known as one) is a large part of getting conversions. The term "pre-selling" is often used, and I like that term because it describes a process that often gets missed in marketing, especially online marketing with an often unhealthy emphasis on SEO.

All the things you described are great for SEO, but the problem with SEO is first time visitors usually don't know anything about you. The task of building trust is very difficult in this situation. Just getting them to stay for more than 8 seconds is a challenge.

Enter pre-selling. This forum is one of many ways of doing that. Let me use vangogh as an example. Anyone here needing web programming, WordPress help, or several other things would know he is an expert. They would arrive at his site already pre-sold, and that is far more powerful than the best SEO you could possibly create.
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