Can Clients Find Your Coach Website Using Search Engines?

By Biana Babinsky, the online business coach

Are your customers able to find you online using search engines? Many coaches report to me that their coach websites could be found by searching search engines for combination of their last name + first name. While it is good that these coaches can be found for the combination of their last name + first name, only people who already know them or have heard about them can search for the names. The vast majority of your potential coaching clients don't know your name (yet!), so they are searching for more generic coaching terms, representing your coaching products and services.

For example, if Jessica Brown is a business coach, someone who has heard about her from another client, or someone who met her through online networking, might search for information about her and her coaching business by searching for Jessica Brown. However, many more people will search for business coach or business coaching. These are the people who don't know who Jessica Brown is, but they already have a need for her coaching services.

In order for you to be found on generic terms relevant to your business, you need to perform search engine optimization (or SEO) for your web site. Search engine optimization is the process of modifying content of your coach web page and meta-information to improve the search engine ranking of the page. Meta-information includes certain HTML tags (title, heading, emphasized text, keyword and description meta-tags), as well as the internal (links between pages on the same site) and external (links between pages on different sites) link structure of a web site.

Over to you - let's take action! Let's get more potential coaching clients find your coach website through search engines:

1. Take a look at the current search engine rankings of your coach web site by using a few different search engines to find your web site. Does it come up when you search for your first name + last name? What about a generic term for your coaching business?

2. Find good generic keywords for your coaching business. They could be keywords that are related to your business, profession, or specific products or services that you sell. For example, for a life coach take a look at keywords such as life coaches, life coaching and others.

The best keywords are the ones that have many of your potential coaching clients searching for them, but don't have too many other web sites using them.

3. Use the terms you found to perform search engine optimization for your coach website. This involves changing the content, as well as meta-information and link structure for your coaching web site. For more information on finding generic keywords for your web site, as well as step by step information on doing search engine optimization for your web site, grab the Step by Step Search Engine Optimization Special Report.

About the author: Do you want to get more coaching clients from search engines? Biana Babinsky shows you how to drive thousands of your potential coaching clients to your coaching web site in her Step by Step Search Engine Optimization Special Report. Learn more about the report at http://avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zseo