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The Power of Search Within a Complex Sales Cycle

Are Businesses Too Slow to Adapt?


When the Internet first started taking hold in the late 90’s, the sites that were best known were retail sites. Could it be that’s still influencing our perception of who should advertise online? Or is it simply that it’s easier to continue down a path that’s well-known and comfortable (traditional advertising and marketing), versus taking a chance on something that’s less familiar, but may ultimately be yield better results? Whatever the reason, we now know that online marketing, and specifically search engine marketing, is highly effective in driving sales for businesses with complex sales cycles.


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Search Engine Forecast 2008

2007 has been a very interesting year in the SEO/SEM industry. We’ve seen Google gain even more of the search engine market share and the rise and fall of some of the major SEO players. SEO itself has become more of an institution and it seems every company wants in on it whether or not they are qualified. SEO/SEM has become increasingly more visible as hosting and design companies are pushing ’search engine exposure’ as an add-on. There have been feature articles in many popular marketing and business magazines as well. The question has shifted from ‘what is SEO?’ to ‘how much benefit can I get from SEO?’.


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Effective Search Engine Marketing Campaign - Importance of Keyword Analysis

Many people rush into search engine marketing campaign without having a proper keyword analysis before hand. To have an effective search engine marketing campaign, you got to make sure that you have chosen the right keywords to optimize in the organic listing, or bid for in the paid listing.


Choosing the right keywords is very important because it usually determine the effectiveness of a search marketing campaign. For example, if you choose a set of keywords that target to the wrong audience, you will not be able to convert the traffic from this campaign into either leads or sales. In another case, if all your keywords do not command high search volumes, you will not be able to drive

Search Engine Forecast 2008
...launch that only saw Google take even more market share. Later in 2007, the CEO was let go. Considering that 80%+ of Yahoo!'s revenue comes from advertising, they will need to do something huge this year. Whether it be a ...
a substantial amount of traffic to your site to measure conversion.


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Benefits of Tapping Both Organic Listings and Paid Listings

A lot of companies and individuals think that by just having paid listings such as pay-per-click advertisements on search engines, they will not need to have good organic listings for their websites.


Recently I have heard a lot of sayings that websites who advertise through pay-per-clicks are considered more legitimate businesses, when compared to those that have prominent rankings on organic listings as they are usually considered content websites for researching purposes by searchers. I seriously do not agree with them.


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Search Engine Marketing - A Guide to A Complete Search Engine Marketing Campaign

Search engine marketing is one of the most effective ways to reach out to your target audience, thus promoting your products or services. As we are now in the recommendation age, people always seek out recommendation through the Internet, either from blogs, forums, social networking sites, or even search engines.


When a person keys in the keyword “computers” in Google, he or she is most likely looking for a trustworthy computer company to buy a computer from. If your company sells computer, you will definitely want your site to “be recommended” by ranking well in either the paid or organic listings.


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