Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Beginner's Guide to Web and Search Marketing


Simply explained, Internet or Web marketing is the process of connecting with customers via the Internet for selling products and/or services. One of the strategies of internet marketing is SEM or search engine marketing.

Search marketing is the process of increasing one's visibility in the search engine page results. SEM includes following important elements:

1. Search engine optimization 2. Pay per click advertising 3. Back linking strategies 4. Directory listings

Search marketing can be enhanced through organic keyword searches. What does the term organic mean? Simply put, it means you need not pay for the keyword searches. When your website has all the right 'elements'; it can 'get noticed' quickly by major search engines like Yahoo, Google etc. These elements include:

• Fresh content • Blogs • Keyword rich content • Meta data

An essential component of search marketing is researching consumer buying habits. This in turn, helps us find the keywords one uses to find and buy items online. Knowledge of keywords is thus very essential to help get your website indexed by the search engines and drive targeted traffic to your sites.

Most of the search engines themselves offer tools for this critical keyword research. Some of these are paid tools, including Google's AdSense, Correlate and Trends. Inorganic or paid searches do necessitate considerable research on the part of the Internet marketers (like you). Alternatively, marketers also need to advertise their own brand and can earn money by advertising other companies' products on their sites in turn. The search engines can help you find all the places to buy online advertising.

You can also turn to social networking sites like Facebook to achieve this goal.

If you are thinking of purchasing digital advertisements, make sure that you thoroughly research the markets to determine the click-through and conversion rates. Adequate keyword research and multiple advertising strategies should help you attain top ranking for your keywords.

Once your keyword list is ready, you must start creating a valuable website or a sales copy and create wonderful blog posts that inform readers exactly what they are looking for. These blog posts must contain links that direct readers back to the site. You can even incorporate videos and submit them to top online video directories like YouTube. Even the videos can direct readers back to your sites.

Connecting and forming links of this sort is an essential element of search marketing and web marketing. It has an easy to remember name called 'the back-linking strategy'. Back links can be very helpful in bringing targeted traffic to your site; provided you use them correctly. This is because; search engines have become very strict and examine the quality of all such inbound links. Owners of web sites must continuously educate themselves and understand all these elements of search and web marketing.

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