Small start-up business firms, being concerned about their expenses, always need to establish a strategy that reduces their costs. This can involve many tactical practices, of which cutting down the marketing expenses is a big shot! Start-up firms who are Business-to-Business (B2B) traders of products and services aims at reaching their targeted customers via various approaches. Marketing online through the numerous paid and unpaid B2B platforms is a big entry point to achieve this target.
Search Engine Optimization, as most of us might know is a set of practices that complements each other’s in order to create a required traffic level to the web presence of a piece of information. For traders, making use of B2B platforms by incorporating few SEO skills will assist in reaching their target fast. Let’s get this in detail through an example. Alibaba.com is a worldwide B2B trading platform deep-rooted in China. Anybody who intends to buy or sell things from a business viewpoint can register either free or paid memberships with Alibaba. Sellers can have webpages to key in information of their company, business, products and services. Buyers on the other hand can key in their buying interests. Alibaba after verification will match the buyers and sellers interests in order to initiate a business deal. Now, this can be even better by the suggested SEO’s. Traders can do basic Keyword based studies which indicates the keyword searches related to the business, product, service or the industry. Creating content that is ‘Organically Rich’ with these highlyb relevant keywords and tagging them with sites like alibaba will notify search engines like Google on the genuine availability of a piece of information.
Alibaba, is just one such example. There are business directories online that will help you identify various local, international and industry wise segmented B2B platforms. Simply creating a profile page in all such directories also won’t help in a long term basis, instead key in relevant information only with platforms that are frequented by your targeted users. One another advantage of using them is that major such platforms like Alibaba and eBay have already got a genuine identity and traffic via major search engines and registering with them will help businesses get noticed much faster.
Remember SEO as discussed before, is a multilevel game and only a combination of various proven SEO techniques will yield good results. IF you are a trader stuck with your marketing online, start signing up with these B2B’s and get your organic traffic for a competitive advantage.


