Introduction to Search Engine Marketing

Posted on February 18th, 2008 |

Introduction to Search Engine Marketing Search Engine Marketing (SEM) which is also simply known as Search Marketing plays a vital role in increasing site traffic or the number of site visitors channeled from search engines. Moreover, it deals with conversion or the percentage of site visitors that turn into buyers. With regard to the increase in site traffic, this can be obtained when you have a good position in search engines on certain keywords that people type on search boxes to get certain results.

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There are three main goals of SEM:

• to improve visibility in search engines thereby an increase in site traffic,
• obtain quality traffic by ensuring high rankings on targeted keywords that will guarantee the best conversion rate
• cut marketing costs upon discontinuation of the promotion of less effective keywords

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In order to address the three goals mentioned above, SEM deals with the following methods:

• Search Engine Optimization – this deals with the organic rankings of your site. Organic ranking refers to the position of a website in the results list of search engines when people search for certain keywords. This method also involves improving site structure and HTML code on web pages and augmenting link popularity.
• Bid Management – it means taking control of your bids or the money that you invest on pay-per-click or paid inclusion advertisements. You should determine the keywords that give you the best conversion to increase bids on them and discontinue keywords with very low conversion.
• Web Analytics – mainly involves gathering and analysis of data and using these information to improve the overall effectivity of the website. Data gathered includes information of site visitors and their behavior on the site, the ways on how they found your site, conversion rates, competence of referrals and advertising.

To increase link popularity, article submissions is a good technique to follow. If you want someone to write the articles for you, there are many article writing services that can provide you with what you need.

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