Search engine placement or top ranking or
internet marketing is most easily understood
as getting your web site to come up high in
search engine listings for key phrases relative
to your product or business. We have proven
examples that show web traffic before and after
our search engine placements and the results
are incredible. Search engine placement efforts
have increased traffic on some of our clients
web sites by 20 times! An industry statistic
is that 46% of your traffic will come from search
engines. Does Search Engine Marketing, top
ranking Really Work?The simple answer is
YES, but the best results are obtained from
web sites that were designed with search engine
placement, top ranking in mind. Unfortunately
most web site developers pay little, or no attention
to how a search engine would index the web site.
Even worse, is that some web site layouts prevent
the search engines from indexing the site at
all. Certain elements must be written into the
HTML code of a web page that range from the
meta tags within the page header, right down
to the way the text is written into the page.
We say "page" instead of "site"
because search engines index web "pages"
not web sites. Most of the time we consult with
our client to re-write the text within their
pages, and we do the rest. We don't trick the
search engines, we simply make your web pages
relevant to what your potential clients would
look for. And YES it really works!
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According to a Forrester Research Media
Field Study, getting a loyal audience in
the first place is best done by Search Engine
Placement.
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According to a GVU Users Survey, 84.8%
of Internet users use Search Engines to
find Web sites.
Top Ways Websites are Discovered
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Banner ads: 1%
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Targetted email: 1.2%
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TV spots: 1.4%
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"by accident": 2.1%
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Magazine ads: 4.4%
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Word-of-mouth: 20%
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Random Surfing: 20%
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Search Engine: 46%
Search Engine placement, top ranking is very
much alive and kicking. But let's take this
a step further. Let's see the quality of prospects
coming to your website through search engines
as opposed to other advertising mediums.Every
time your potential customers use the search
engines, they qualify themselves as hot prospects
by conducting searches on keywords that are
directly related to your product or service.
Their choice of keyword is proof that they have
a genuine interest in what you offer. These
people spend their valuable time exploring the
search engines for your type of product or willing
to do business with you. At the very least,
they're seriously considering it!But merely
getting your Website "indexed" or
listed in the search engines is not enough.
In order to get any significant traffic from
the search engines, your Website must be within
the top 30 search results (preferably the top
20). Very rarely will anyone look beyond the
first 30 results returned from a search. This
makes perfect since because the most relevant
sites are always listed at the top. So if your
prospect doesn't find what they want within
the first 20 to 30 listings, they'll simply
do a new search.