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About ten months ago online businesses were impacted, some severely, by a search engine algorithm change called ‘Panda.’ On that outing, the major search engines switched up the criteria their spiders and bots use when crawling a website. By reprioritizing what techniques search engines ‘look for’ Panda sought out and penalized sites that search engines perceived to be ‘over optimized’ with ‘spam’ techniques.
By now most online business owners have heard that the major search engines like to ‘mix it up a bit’ from time to time. This ‘mix up’ is called an ‘algorithm shift.’ One day your keywords are ranking well and seemingly, the next they’re nowhere to be found on the first two pages. What’s going on and what to do
Let’s begin with a bit of history; Search Engine Optimization initially started its debut on the Internet during the 1990’s, the term “Search Engine Optimization” was introduced by an Internet Marketing Group during the year of 1997 in an effort to define the steps needed to improve Search Engine Positioning.
Many times, over the last 8 years, I have had the same conversation with clients over one specific topic. If I am ranking high in the organic ad listings why do I need to bid on them in PPC? My normal response to them is “why wouldn’t you”.
There are several obvious ways to answer this question, which I will go through quickly, but I am most thinking about the not so obvious answers. The very obvious answer is that you can measure the value of a ranking, in its raw form, as exactly how many sales/leads you derived from that exact ranking and the long tail searches from the root of the term.
Finding a great SEO company that is going to propel your website into the first couple pages of the Google search results is one of the best investments that you will ever make for your online business or website. When you have traffic to your website, sales are not too far behind. If you do not have the traffic you need to your site then you are missing out on potential sales as well as future clients and repeat business.
Internet Marketing can be a great career when you are using the proper techniques. However, if you are not using the right techniques, you could be costing yourself credibility and sales online. Using bad methods to market your online products can keep you from making any profits at all. Even if you are not using illegal or unethical methods, there are certain techniques that will never work with Internet Marketing.
Marketing should never be looked at as an expense. Over time, if marketing is costing your company money, then you need to rework your strategy. Marketing, by definition, is the action or business of promoting and selling products or services. This definition is not ambiguous. So often, small business owners seem to not fully understand the value of marketing. The vast majority of big businesses get it and in many cases, good marketing strategy is part of what made them big in the first place.
Article Marketing Programs are used by many SEO experts in an effort to disperse content to various directories, blogs or other sites that assist in website rankings. However, selecting the right Article Marketing software is something that should be researched. Each Article Marketing software provides online guidelines that must be followed to participate in their […]
If you think Spam® is just canned mystery meat, chances are you do not work in the Internet Marketing industry. For those of us who do, spam is a detrimental element on many websites. It has to be identified, located and removed to avoid the site being penalized by the search engines. And once you have been ‘pinged’ by Google and/or Yahoo, your site pretty much becomes permanently invisible. So it’s a really good idea to rout your site of spam.
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