SEO Tacoma WA

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Tacoma, WA is the third largest city in the state of Washington behind Seattle and Spokane.  It is located at the bottom of what is known as the “Puget Sound” area and is a major shipping & transportation hub for the state.

The population of Tacoma, Washington is approximately 200,000 and is part of the great Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area of around four million people.

While Tacoma, WA does share a few things with Seattle like the airport, Boeing, sports teams, and its love for Starbucks coffee and espresso, the two cities have distinct characteristics.  Tacoma, by and large, is a blue collar transportation city while Seattle has more high tech white collar jobs.

There is a common misconception that this area gets tons of rain each year.  The annual precipitation for Tacoma, WA is about 38 inches.  There are states in the south and east that get on average 60% more rainfall every year.  They just get dumped on though and then it is over.  Here in Tacoma, that it sprinkles a little bit every day and in the wintertime it can get a bit dreary.

If you have a local business  you need to have a local SEO Tacoma company optimize your website.  Google has launched a new algorithm called the “Caffeine” and any site that does not display the right keyword density, have proper internal optimization, display proper clean coding, have fast loading times, and have relevant external optimization will not rank high for any local search term.

People in Tacoma, WA are going away from looking up goods and services in the phone book. It is much easier to turn on a computer, go to a major search engine like Google or Yahoo, and look up a term with the city at the end of it.

If you have a company that is not on page one of Google, Yahoo, and MSN you are missing out on a lot of targeted traffic.  Most people will do business with one of the the first 3-5 companies they see on the first page.  And, only with proper search engine optimization can you get there.

Effective Web Solutions prides itself on proudly helping many Tacoma, WA businesses reach their goals by building and optimizing their websites, both on page and off page, to dominate their search term or phrase in the search engines.  Google would be #1 on the list of important search engines you need to rank well on, Yahoo would be #2, and MSN (or Bing) would be #3.  There are smaller less known SERPS like Excite and ASK you could be getting traffic from as well.

We also utilize social media marketing, business directories, and article writing to spread you out across the internet.  You do not just want to have a first page ranking on Google for a local Tacoma WA search phrase but you want to have an “online presence.”  People interested in what you have to sell should be able to find you on the internet through multiple channels.

Few small business owners have the time to perform search engine marketing for the Tacoma WA area.  If one person wanted to try to optimize their whole website and have it perform well for specific search terms they will be going up against large SEO firms in Seattle, WA, maybe even some of our existing clients, and it would be quite challenging, almost impossible.  You need a local SEO Tacoma company with several specialists of their own working for you. Effective Web Solutions is just that!