Incentivising an audience to encourage click throughs and conversion is necessary regardless of the marketing channel or medium used to delivered that traffic to a website. Regardless of the fulcrum used to leverage a traffic source (SEO, SEM, Editorial Exposure, Email Marketing or Advertising); the most significant objective is that the audience can: Quickly skim [...]
April 24, 2010 – 12:35 pm
There are various methods to generate traffic to a website, but which is the most cost-effective solution for your business? Some traffic-building methods include – PPC management services (pay per click management), SEO (search engine optimization), article marketing, content creation and RSS syndication, using social media engagement, acquiring editorial links from industry specific authority sites, [...]
March 21, 2010 – 11:18 am
Being a strong middle man is crucial to your return on Search Engine Optimization. Before embarking on an all out SEO blitz, it’s important to take a step back and analyze the semantics of the phrases you are targeting. Sure, you’ve analyzed the search volume of all the phrases that are relative to your products [...]
Let’s say you represent a BIG brand; one that is a household name. Next, let’s say that your products or services are not e-commerce based. Want an example? Sure, let’s use Deloitte, the consulting firm specializing in tax, accounting, strategy and technology integration. A potential customer isn’t going to use a search engine to look [...]
September 5, 2009 – 10:24 am
Regardless of whether your online marketing campaign utilizes SEM (search engine marketing) or SEO (search engine optimization), keywords are responsible for translating intent. Keywords are the words people use when trying to get a point across or more specifically find something. As such, their language is already closer akin to Morse code, whereby using essential [...]
Would you take on a word class UFC champion if you just learned how to fight? What about if you’re new to football, would you take on the team that just won the super bowl? Does this marketing strategy sound practical, well-informed or remotely realistic? Hardly, so, right…. So, why would anyone want to take [...]
Let’s face it, websites do not optimize themselves and while SEO may not be rocket science, it does require tact and there are various stages and layers involved before you start ranking for substantial keywords. This is why it’s imperative that you create a blueprint for success and use it as a schema to develop [...]
If your pockets are almost empty, reaching your existing clients with affordable online marketing can save the day! Consumers are weary, sales cycles have lengthened and you’ve already depleted the brand advertising budget. What can you do now? It times of dire straights, communicating effectively with your clients using online marketing can help you tighten [...]
January 27, 2009 – 10:29 am
After experimenting with a few brand new keyword specific niche sites as personal SEO project for the past 90 days, the question came up, does a site really need backlinks as much as before? and if so, how many does it need to cross the tipping point?. After posting niche-specific quality content (gleaned from intensive [...]
December 30, 2008 – 10:38 pm
Is your online marketing strategy based on long-term growth or is your website merely ranking on vapors? Developing true website authority supersedes short-term quick fixes and processes and since SEO is all about layering and infusing multiple steps to produce a specific outcome. Having a firm objective and not sacrificing quality for short-term gain (such [...]