Deliver the Details Buyers Need to Find You On Your Website

Make sure your Website gives industrial buyers all the details they need to make a buying or specifying decision. Include a complete list of products or services, and describe them in the terms potential customers would use.

Details, Please, Content Is King
Use this checklist as a guideline for gathering the appropriate product or service detail you want to deliver online:
Specifications Dimensions (length, width, height) Material Types
Shape Color Horsepower
Voltage Specific Capabilities Power Range

When industrial buyers search the Internet, they’re not searching for your company. They’re searching for the products or services they need right now. Do you have enough detailed information online for industrial buyers to find you?

How Industrial Buyers Search

Industrial buyers go to the Web looking for something specific, and they search using highly
specific “search strings.” A search string is a series of 3 to 7 words or specifications used to describe a particular product or service. For example, if a buyer needs “centrifugal pumps,” they probably won’t just search for “centrifugal pumps,” they’re more likely to search:

  • 12v centrifugal submersible water pump
  • agricultural centrifugal pump gas engine
  • pumps submersible 1" centrifugal groundwater
  • centrifugal pump manufacturers small 36 volt
  • centrifugal pump for high viscosity fluids

What search strings could be used to describe your products or services?

What Search Engines Are “Spidering”

Search engines are in the business of delivering relevant results – for even the most detailed
searches. To be able to do this, search engines automatically spider the Web on an ongoing basis for detailed information to fill their search indexes.

By making details about your products or services available online, you’re giving search engine spiders information to include in their search indexes, and increasing your chances of being in the results of the search strings your potential customers use.

Do the search engines “spiders” have enough details about your products or services?

Enhance your Website with a Searchable Online Catalog
Enhance your Website with a customized online catalog that enables buyers to search your products according to specific data such as length, wide, diameter, or other quantifiable attributes.

In Your Thomas Listing
For each category in your Thomas program, you can include a 30-word product or service description. Be sure the description for each category contains relevant product-specific words, phrases, and specifications that help potential customers answer questions they
have on what you offer.

Thomas Can Help You Improve All Your Online Information

  • Need help getting all your details together for your Website?
  • Do you need assistance writing your product or service descriptions?
  • Are you interested in making your product catalog searchable on your Website?
Is your Internet Strategy winning you business?
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