Costa Rica's largest online network experiences exponential growth through Costa Rica SEO

Nov. 19, 2009 - PRLog -- SellingCR Group founder, Don Halbert, has taken a number of sites centered around the topic of Costa Rica, and applied his own unique skill set, in order to elevate these sites above the pack. Currently the strongest advocate of Costa Rica SEO and online marketing for businesses throughout Costa Rica, Don has proven time and time again that, without an effective online marketing campaign, a business simply can not compete and neglecting this message, could mean the difference between success and failure.

Our newest additions to our network are:

Costa Rica Property Site - http://www.costaricapropertysite.com
Uvita Costa Rica - www.uvitacostarica.com
Costa Rica Homes for Sale - www.costaricahomesforsale.net

The following is some great, free advice on how you can improve your online exposure. Of course this will involve dedicating some serious time in order to be fully effective, however if you do...you will experience results.

Establishing your target market is a good place to start. For this instance we will use "Costa Rica homes for sale" as our target market. Now once you've established your target, the first step you will want to make is acquiring a domain name with the "exact" central keyword phrase you are targeting in it. Preferably I would suggest trying for a TLD (Top Level Domain) of which .com and .net are the two best.

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http://www.sellingcr.com/20081124298/Information/costa-ri...

Now that we've acquired the domain http://www.costaricahomesforsale.net we can now move on to the next step. I would recommend downloading Firefox as your browser for this type of work as it is crucial.  Once you've got Firefox, then I would like you to download the plugin "Yslow" and "SenSEO". Yslow is a great test of your site's speed and grades you accordingly and the SenSEO addon, well it also grades you, however it grades you on standard SEO guidelines.

Now upload your site to your domain and then run a preliminary check using SenSEO and see what your starting grade is.  Keep in mind it will probably be a failing grade out of the gate however this will change as we move along.

Next I would like you to take an entire day or so to analyze and study what your keywords should be. And I would like to mention that you should be realistic in your choices. A good indicator is doing a Google search for your desired keyword phrase and then notice up in the top right in Google, you will see: results 1-10 of XXXXXXXXXXX pages. The XXXXXXXXXXX number is how much competition you have for that keyword phrase. So logically you won't be wanting to target something like "Costa Rica" which has 187 million competitors vying for the same target market.  Unless of course you are the owner of a domain that is simply costarica.XXX

Next step is to select that absolute perfect meta description possible.  The key to having an effective meta description is to include your primary keywords, being human readable meanwhile keeping it within 150 characters or 30 words.

Select your page titles carefully and this is exceptionally the case with the main page of the site.  I prefer to use "|" symbol to divide between keywords and phrases. Again keeping the title within 65 characters and no more than 15 words.

Now to round it all out and make this "machine" tuned so that it's working for you instead of against you, you'll need to work on your "keyword density". But first in order to know what your current density is, you will have to go get the Firefox plugin "SEO Quake" which offers a density check in the toolbar.

Back to our example of "Costa Rica homes for sale", we need to do a density check on that keyword phrase and then we need to bring it up to between 5-7%. Try your hardest to maintain some kind of human readability while doing this in your content. And dont forget to use one instance of an H1 tag and then try to use one each of the H2 and H3 tags. Of course placing your keyword phrase in them.

Once you have finished the above tasks you should have a well oiled "on page" SEO machine. The rest of your tasks will be what's called "off page" SEO. This can be a whole other article so we won't go in to that much.  I will however give you the #1 off page SEO tip out there.  When you manage to get links on other relevant pages, make sure to use the anchor text of your targeted keyword phrase.  In this instance my links would look like this.

Costa Rica Homes for Sale

Using just these simply steps, I've managed to take a brand new site from nothing...to rank on Page 1 of Google for the highly competitive keyword phrase, "Costa Rica homes for sale" in under two weeks.

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