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Beginning with a keyword rich article, candle stores could reach more potential customers through an Internet web presence even if they have a real world brick-and-mortar location only.  Having a web presence means a website that either tells customers about the different candles and other décor a company has to offer or has a website that also offers candles for sale through the website in addition to those for sale in the real world store.

A keyword rich article is an article written with keywords and keyword phrases which are the words likely customers use in the search boxes on the search engines in order to find what they need or want.  Placing a keyword rich article on a candle store’s website in order to draw in the three major search engines - Google, Yahoo!, and MSN - because these major search engines use their “feelers” in order to find the keywords and keyword phrases within the articles and then rank the websites according to a special formula.  This process is known as search engine optimization or SEO.

Candle stores who are on the Internet could use a keyword rich article to attract the major search engines in addition to reaching more customers who are looking for exactly what a candle store has to offer, these are known as targeted customers.

Once a keyword rich article has been written, it could be pared down and reworded a little to become a blog entry either on the candle store’s website or on a themed blog which are popping up all over the Internet.  There are themed blogs written about just about anything and everything through the Internet.  There are blogs about how the be more romantic, how to save electricity, great gifts for under $10 and eco-friendly bridal shower gifts.  Each of these themed blogs could be a great place to put a blog entry about candles that would not only introduce a new group of people to candles and what they can do for people but also help to increase the search engine optimization ranking because of the keywords that are located within the blog entry.

Blogs are longer thought of as Internet diaries where people talk about their feelings or what they had for lunch that day.  Blogs are now a place for exchange of ideas and a place for an introduction to new products and services from businesses both old and new.

Besides blogs, a candle store can align themselves with another website in order to offer something for free with every purchase because in these economic hard times everyone is looking for a bargain and something for free is definitely a bargain.  Free music downloads are something everyone could use and to have customers receive free music downloads when they purchase a candle would have more customers flocking to a candle company’s website then the competitions.