Why search engine optimization

The majority of search engines users are more likely to click on one of the top 5 suggestions in the results pages (SERPS), so to take advantage of this and gain visitors to your web site or customers to your online store you need to in the top positions.SEO is not only about search engines but good SEO practices improve the user experience and usability of a web site.Users trust search engines and having a presence in the top positions for the keywords the user is searching, increases the web site’s trust.SEO is good for the social promotion of your web site. People who find your web site by searching Google or Yahoo are more likely to promote it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or other social media channels.SEO is important for the smooth running of a big web site. Web sites with more than one author can benefit from SEO in a direct and indirect way. Their direct benefit is increase in search engine traffic and their indirect benefit is having a common framework … [Read more...] about What Is Search Engine Optimization And Why Is It Important

Your search engine optimization company can also find out from you which areas of your services or which products haven't gotten enough attention, and can focus on those. Your strategy of marketing on the Internet could then bring in fresh leads for those areas. For example, you may have a line of business that is underperforming, and it has been made known by the powers-that-be that this lagging area needs improvement. Your search engine optimization company should be aware of this issue, because it can allocate a sizable number of keyphrases to this underperforming sector. If you don't give your SEO firm this information, whether it asks or you volunteer, your keyphrases may be allocated equally, and you will lose the chance for this boost. … [Read more...] about What Every Search Engine Optimization Company Should Know about Keyphrase Choice

This approach calls for both SEO and PPC initiatives running at full speed. These types of clients are generally those that consider these two efforts as separate 'beasts' and frankly believe that showing up highly in both channels is a good thing...as long as the return justifies the spend. … [Read more...] about Search Engine Optimization and Paid Search: What Should Your Philosophy Be?

Again, it's not a choice between optimizing your site and not optimizing it. It's a choice in how you spend your time. If you only think with an optimization perspective, you're likely to miss the ways you can be helpful to your customer that don't fit neatly into search optimization. Home Depot has posted hundreds of how-to videos on their Web site and YouTube, knowing that by answering customer questions that they'll increase sales. Does this tactic help their search rankings? Yes, but that probably was not the primary motivator. … [Read more...] about Search Engine Optimization vs. Customer Connection

For the purpose of this article, I'm ignoring the multitudes of companies that decide to dump the job on somebody already in their organization (usually an IT person who already has too much to do) rather than hiring a search engine optimization company. It has been my experience that while some of these people eventually provide decent results, they are the exception. More often than not, the project never leaves the ground, or the effort is halfhearted at best. In a worst case scenario, your internal person may embrace tactics that no expert search engine optimization company would ever use because they can put your site at risk of penalization or outright removal from the engine indexes. … [Read more...] about Using a Search Engine Optimization Company vs. Hiring an In-House Expert: The True Dollar Cost