Costa Rica SEO and Online Marketing done right

May 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Many businesses seem to think that simply launching a web page is all that is necessary to start attracting clients from the international online market. Let's look at a few enlightening facts about the Internet first.

Firstly you need to understand that Google and Yahoo!, the two leaders in internet search, stopped publishing the amount of web pages indexed by their respective companies in 2005. However we can calculate using the final printed statistic in 2005 with the 2007 statistics from NetCraft, primarily setup to distinguish how many web sites run what server software like Microsoft, Apache etc. So when we do this we get a rough estimate IN 2007, of some 29.7 billion web pages.

So essentially we have a vast marketplace with 29.7 billion vendors. Chances are pretty darn good that a percentage of them will be in the same market place as yourself. So let's look at "Costa Rica hotels" for example to see just how many pages are competing for those top spots in Google.  Upon searching that term in Google you will find 10,300,000 results.

Now what can you do in order to compete in a localized market whereas your competition is in the millions? Simple. Don't ignore online marketing and good Costa Rica SEO.

Ignoring online marketing is like opening a business but not telling anyone. Make sense? We didn't think so. So why do people still ignore or underestimate this form of advertising? Not exactly sure however we hope we can do our part in directing businesses to pay more attention to this necessary form of advertising.

Particularly around the areas of Dominical, Uvita and basically the entire Southern Zone of Costa Rica, we are seeing more and more businesses choosing print ads in local magazines rather than the more effective online marketing campaigns. With respect to the tourism industry in Southern Costa Rica, if you are marketing to primarily a foreign market in order to gain business from foreigners (IE: tourists) then why on earth would you market in a local magazine and essentially, ignore your primary target market?

Knowing your target market is 25% of your battle. Another 50%, is knowing just how to get your business to that target market. The remainder is simple compiling your marketing material to present to your target audience. The point is, your largest percentage is in how to get your business to the people that matter most.

This is where I come in.

Over the past number of years I've built a vast network online in which to market businesses and products from Costa Rica. I've successfully built and elevated, one of Costa Rica's premier news sites (http://www.sellingcr.com) to the top of the search engines in an otherwise unimaginable short length of time. Not only that but I've done it with virtually all my targeted markets including the widely considered most difficult market to tap, the Costa Rica property (http://www.costaricapropertysite.com) market. As a matter of fact, most SEO agencies worldwide won't take on real estate contracts as it is no secret how difficult and time consuming this can be. Not to mention expensive.

Statistically the evidence in support of my ability is overpowering. You would be hard pressed to search the Net for Costa Rica and not come across the name Don G. Halbert. I have been featured on CNN and other media agencies. I currently copy write articles for a variety of online media sites for Costa Rica and am considered by EZineArticles to be an "expert author" on the subject of Costa Rica.

It should be clear, when it comes to online marketing of your Costa Rican business, there really should not be much of a choice. At least if it is results your looking for rather than mediocrity.

For more information on how I can help your business, please contact me via my personal site @ http://www.donhalbert.com

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The name Don Halbert is synonymous with Costa Rica SEO & online marketing. As a professional copy writer and marketer, Don Halbert has created a vast network in order to promote Costa Rica and it's many businesses.