NotaryBids.com Blog

I’m pleased to announce some exciting changes I made recently to the home page, the home page title tag as well as to the home page keywords (by keywords I mean the keywords tag in the html) and the description tag in the html also. I also made a slight change to the “Theme” of the company which could also be considered the tagline. Keep in mind this is all in line with a new SEO Strategy we developed in earlier posts to bring the site up higher in the search engines.

Title, Description, Keyword Tags

Lets start out by showing you what these actually look like from the code in the page:

This is what the “title” tag looks like: <TITLE>NotaryBids.com - Home, An Automated Mobile Notary Signing Agent Search System</TITLE>

This what the “keywords” tag looks like: <meta name=“keywords” content=”Mobile Notary,Signing Agent,Notary Signing Agentr,Mobile Signing Agent,Certified Signing Agent,Notary Database,Notary Search,Notary Locator,National Notary,Notary Directory,Notaries,Alabama Notary,Alaska Notary,Arizona Notary,Arkansas Notary,California Notary,Colorado Notary,Connecticut Notary,Delaware Notary,District of Columbia Notary,Florida Notary,Georgia Notary,Hawaii Notary,Idaho Notary,Illinois Notary,Indiana Notary,Iowa Notary,Kansas Notary,Kentucky Notary,Louisiana Notary,Maine Notary,Maryland Notary,Massachusetts Notary,Michigan Notary,Minnesota Notary,Mississippi Notary,Missouri Notary,Montana Notary,Nebraska Notary,Nevada Notary,New Hampshire Notary,New Jersey Notary,New Mexico Notary,New York Notary,North Carolina Notary,North Dakota Notary,Ohio Notary,Oklahoma Notary,Oregon Notary,Pennsylvania Notary,Rhode Island Notary,South Carolina Notary,South Dakota Notary,Tennessee Notary,Texas Notary,Utah Notary,Vermont Notary,Virginia Notary,Washington Notary,West Virginia Notary,Wisconsin Notary,Wyoming Notary” />

This is what the description tags look like: <meta name=“description” content=”NotaryBids.com is an innovative, new, completely automated national notary signing agent search system. Our automation saves lenders, title companies, escrow companies and others time and money by locating and contacting mobile notary signing agents for them!” />

In any search engine optimization (SEO) strategy this is the first place you need to start!

Here are some best practices for these 3 very important components:

• Use a unique description for each page. Make sure the description does in fact describe the page content. But write it with the search engines in mind. Depending on the search engine it may be what people see as a summary of your site on the search engine results pages. (SERPS) Also be sure to load it contains your keywords.
• The title should contain the website name “NotaryBids.com”, the page name or purpose and then a short description including keywords as to what the page is about. Keep in mind your visitirs will see this in the top of the browser.
• The keywords list should include all the possible keywords your site is about starting with the most important and separated by a comma. Spend some time on this one and be sure you have a solid list of keywords (you can also include short 2 -3 word phrases) that a person that is searching may use to find your product or service.

Next lets talk about the other changes/upgrades I made to the home page. The first and most noticeable one is the list of states you can now find there. I decided to make a change to the overall business plan to support a much more aggressive search marketing plan. I am now allowing public access to the notary database similar to what other notary directory sites allow. In simpler terms that means someone that needs a notary can come to the website and with a few clicks find a notary and view their contact info. This is a big step but should help bring more business to our notaries.

From an SEO perspective the change added many important keywords to our home page, the states! During the development of the list I also created a new page that lists the most popular states and cities where notaries are needed more often. You can view the new Find A Notary By State or Popular City feature by clicking this link. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

These two pages and more I’ll be adding add terrific new content and keywords to the site along with some desired functionality clients look for!

- Chris