Myrtle Beach Restaurants Benefit By Internet Advertising
With over 7000 searches performed on Yahoo and MSN per month, restaurants in Myrtle Beach are starting to realize the potential of the internet in their advertising budgets.
Myrtle Beach, SC (PRWEB) January 1, 2005 -- Through various online sources
available to the public, we've found the following number of searches performed
during the month of November 2004 on the major search engines other than
Google:
Myrtle Beach
Restaurants 7,355
Restaurants in Myrtle Beach 231
Myrtle
Beach SC Restaurants 164...
...and nearly 700 more searches divided
by types of restaurants. The Google search engine usually gets about the same
number. So let's round it off to approximately 14,000 searches done total a
month pertaining to Myrtle Beach Restaurants in some way.
Most major
newspapers would be hard-pressed to prove that many readers. Restaurant owners
in any resort, and particularly in Myrtle Beach, SC
should take note of this and aim their advertising as much to the online sources
as to tv and radio.
Quite a few of the local restaurants have websites.
Two of the finest ones in the area, a Myrtle Beach seafood
restaurant, Flamingo Grill (Steaks, too!),and a very well known Myrtle Beach Steakhouse, Cagney's Old Place, are among the
ones that helping prospective diners to find them on the net.
It isn't
enough just to pay a couple of hundred dollars to put up a nice website and
leave it there. In order for it to be seen, the owner either needs to hire a Search Engine
Optimization Company, choose a web design firm who includes it in the
package, such as Myrtle Beach Web
Design or at the very least, purchase advertising space on the more popular
tourism websites. In the Myrtle Beach area, MyrtleBeach.com is probably the
largest, most important of these tourist portals...along with the chamber of
commerce sites for Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach. But industry-specific to
restaurants,is www.MyrtleBeachRestaurants.net">www.MyrtleBeachRestaurants.net. Locally owned and
hand-coded, this restaurant directory has been online for about 2 years, and
boasts well over 100 visits per day in January; gaining in number daily. The
goal is to reach 400 per day in the full season of summer. It is number one on
Google for Myrtle Beach restaurants, in the top 3 on MSN, and was number one on
Yahoo until this press release apparently offended them for mentioning search
figures. Listings for Myrtle Beach hotels and Myrtle Beach golf packages have been added in the last month,
and more services will be offered in the very near future. The number of
visitors this summer to the site should be impressive.
Local web
designers have taken notice of this, and duplicate sites are popping up all over
the place; some with almost identical domain names. As they say, "Imitation is
the most sincere form of flattery." Competitors are watching the site's every
move, and one in particular is claiming to be "free", a "public service", and
insinuating that these figures are being exagerated. For any doubters, look at
the bottom of the homepage and you will find a visit counter. Click on it, and
you will see that day's results, and many other particulars about the searches
and traffic that Myrtle Beach Restaurants.net is generating.
The more
traffic that is generated through hotels, condos, and real estate additions, the
more visitors will see an ad for restaurants or vice-versa. Instead of 200 minor
doorway sites, this website will be a complete guide to everything Myrtle Beach.
It can done without trickery, putting down its competition, and can help all of
the advertisers better their own websites in the bargain. Contact any of the
companies Myrtle Beach Restaurants.net promotes, and you'll see how pleased they
are with the services they've received.
To be placed on the first page
of any search engine, it is mandatory that your website have links directed to
it by other important websites. Google, in particular, bases about 70% of its placement
algorithim on incoming links...described as "votes" by other websites that your
site is an important one. Your website should have very minimal amounts of the
more fancy elements such as flash and javascript, and plenty of good text on the
homepage that utilizes the phrases you want to be found in the searches
for.
If you are paying for advertising, you should keep the above in
mind, and get the double benefit of link power as well as pretty ads that will
be seen.
Myrtle Beach
Restaurants.net offers all of this. You can get a great picture
advertisement, text links, or even your own entire page for much less than most
other travel portals. The site's creator, Myrtle Beach Web Design, LLC, is an
expert search engine optimization provider, and it was designed to promote the
advertisers' sites as well as advertising for them. They have helped and advised
more business associates with SEO without charge than those they've charged for.
Few if any competing websites can say this.
For maxiumum advertising
potential, have your website designed by a company that understands and creates
"Search Engine Friendly" websites. Myrtle Beach Web
Design is one of the best, and offers Search Engine Placement consultations
and other solutions to get your website well placed in the engines.
Most
of all, don't pay a large price for a beautiful website that never gets seen. If
you don't want to pay to have it done correctly, then at least consider
diverting some of your print advertising to the internet. You'll be surprised in
how much your business can benefit from it.
For more information, contact
Myrtle Beach Web Design or
Myrtle Beach
Restaurants.net Directory (e-mail protected from spam bots)
See our
other press releases for Real Estate Investing below:
(http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb183626.php
Preconstruction Condos)
(http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb188577.php
Preconstruction Real Estate)
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