How much money is spent on SEO each year?
Im looking for a national/world average. I know more and more companies are expected to spend a ton but I would like some sources that tell how much is expected to be spent on SEO. Thanks guys.
Hello Jack,
I was trying to find the article on emarketer.com. It was posted a few months back. However, the article stated that it expects Internet marketers will be spending at least $ 26 million plus on Search Engine Optimization. Social Media Marketing & Email Marketing closely followed.
You can also check out www.seomoz.org they just posted a blog about the future of Internet marketing. They got their info from forrester research. You can go to forrester research and sign up for their newsletter and they will keep you up to date on trends. You can also go to mequoda daily, they are also an online newsletter that provides great information on Interent Marketing trends.
I hope this helps!
Sincerely,
www.ninalewis.org
Originally posted 2009-12-31 02:46:05.
What is the best way to bring traffic to a website appart from SEO?
I have a website that is only very small ( 4 pages ) and there isn’t that much text on each page so I suppose SEO wouldn’t be very effective with this website.
What other alternatives do I have? What is the most effective thing you have ever done to your website?
Ok, time for the truth. Content is not king, no matter what someone tells you. That was a gimic by content writers to sell their services. As long as your pages are targeted and some good onpage is completed, quality links will get you top positions in the major search engines.
I have always said that "king content" has no kingdom online without a throne of links.
I have argued with the so called "guru’s" over the years and called out many. Let’s compare traffic and bank accounts of the "king content" crowd against my throne of links and we can settle this dispute once and for all. I have never had a taker, not one! because it is lies and deceptions.
You have 2 options for traffic that will convert, that is SEO or PPC. The reason for this is because it makes YOU the target, not the other way around.
Would you rather be looking for money, or money looking for you?
When you do banners, social and other marketing, you are looking for money in the general population of the internet. With PPC and seo, you are in the right place at the right time every time, so they are looking for you "by keyword search".
When you place an ad on the radio, you are betting that a small precentage of people are interested in what you have to say or offer. This is mass marketing and has a very low return on investment. This is the same as "other" marketing plans online, like banners , social and all of the other crap these other people are telling you to do.
Now, PPC and seo are like having the first ad in the yellowpages for what you offer, and that is HUGE because they are hunting you.
So when you have an active potential customer that is directly interested, your conversion rates will go through the roof.
I would rather have 200 keyword specific visitors thn 2 million non keyword visitors.
Your title is the most important onpage factor for seo, and you can have limited content and gaine some great traffic that will convert. So don’t buy the lies.
Originally posted 2010-01-14 17:47:24.
The Ten Important Steps for Optimizing your Website for Search Engines
“The Ten important Steps for optimizing your website for search engines:
In these ten steps we will know ten basics and important steps to optimizing a website to perform better on major search engines. If you will follow these steps correctly your website search engine position website will be surly improve depending on you industry competition.
Step 1 – Keyword Selection
Step 2 – Creating optimized Content
Step 3 – Site Structure
Step 4 – Internal Linking
Step 5 Submissions
Step 6 Link Popularity Building
Step 7 – Title and Meta tags
Step 8 Monitoring
Step 9 social bookmarking
Step 10 Testing
Step 1 – Keyword Selection
Selecting Keyword is the single most important factor in the entire search engine optimization (optimisation) process. Choosing the right and relevant keywords will not only help you in getting good search engine position and targeted traffic but it will also increase you return on investment (ROI).
Example: If you are a company based in UK providing search engine optimization (optimisation) (SEO) services. The first keyword in your mind would be definitely
Keyword Competition
SEO : 73,000,000
Search engine optimization : 63,600,000
Seo Company : 26,800,000
It is possible to get good ranking on these keywords but it will take lot of time and money instead you can target “”Seo Company Uk” and “Search engine optimization company Uk’ this way you are targeting two keyword at a time with less competition that means more chance of targeted traffic and good Search engine positions.
Keyword selection and research tools
The Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool
Site: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Word Tracker
Site: http://www.wordtracker.com/
Step 2 – Creating optimized Content
There has been lot of changes in the search engine algorithms but there is no change in the importance given to quality content. In this step we will focus on how to create optimized and unique content for high search engine positioning using the keywords we have selected in the first step.
Unique and well written content will both grab your visitor’s attention and at the same time, make them want what you have to offer. So write in keeping mind what your audience are looking for and targeted keywords.
First ask yourself some questions:
What services you offer
Do you provide the services your visitors are looking for
Do some research
Provide as much as possible information on the subject. Provide useful and unique information about your industry / subject area it can entice your visitors to visit your website in future. It has found that most of the online visitors search for information about their interests.
Content Optimization
Four important factors for optimizing content
1. Heading Tags – (H1 to H6)
2. Special Text – (bold etc.)
3. Inline Text Links – (Anchor text and alt tags for images )
4. Keyword Density – (number of occurrences of your targeted keywords in a page)
Heading Tags
By default text in these tags appear too large than standard text in a browser. We can customize it by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Tip: Do not use the same tag more then once on a page.
Special Text
It can be used in bold, colored, “”In quotes”" or (in brackets). Using special text will help draw the attention to important information and also add weight to your keywords.
Inline Text Links
Example: We provide seo services and web hosting.
You add a link to related page on your site to these bold words. it gives the reader a way to find the information you are referring to.
Keyword Density
Keyword density is the no. of occurrences of targeted keyword in the content of the page. You should not spam the targeted keyword in your content; recommended keyword density is between 4% to 10%.
Step 3 – Site Structure
You must structure your website to attract the visitor as well as the search engine spiders. The site structure will help spiders read your site. Keep the code as clean as possible so search engine spider can get to your content, where you want them to be.
Use CSS to cut down code extra code like for font style, tables, images etc…
Things to remember while planning site structure
Keep URL Short and close to Root of the site
While creating folder and files use keyword
Eg: for a page in web hosting packs www.domainname.com/web-hosting/website-hosting.html
Use Hyphens (-) while splitting name in to 2 instead of underscore (_) as shown in above example.
Step 4 – Internal Linking
Internal linking means linking to your pages within the website by way of sitemap, navigation bar, footer, header etc. The sitemap should be linked on all pages of your website to get spidered by search engines from anywhere. You should also include Google sitemap on your site to get indexed easily by Google. It adds relevancy to the linked page which directly helps in getting high rank for the linked page
Using text based links with anchor text, footer navigation and use inline text link will improve Your Internal Linking Structure. So spider can crawl it easily add relevancy to the linked page. The closer a page is in clicks from your homepage. The higher the value the page rank is assigned.
Step 5 Submissions
Where to submit:
o Search engines
o Web directories
Major search engines to submit
Google.com | yahoo.com | Msn.com
Major web directories to submit
1. Yahoo (paid)
2. Dmoz.org (most important)
http://www.about.com/
http://www.incrawler.com/
http://www.jayde.com/
3. http://www.wowdirectory.com/
Step 6 Link Popularity Building
There are 2 ways of building Link popularity
o Reciprocal link building (2 way link building)
o Non-reciprocal link building (1 way link building)
Reciprocal link building
There are some basic rules to follow when exchanging links:
Relevancy is more important
Check and make sure the reciprocal link aren’t being blocked and pages are indexed
Link pages with more than 50 links aren’t worth exchanging with
Non-reciprocal link building
It can be in form of paid link, directory listings, social bookmarking, article publishing ,blogs and press releases
Step 7 – Title and Meta tags
Once you have planned and completed the site structure and content integration. Its turn for Title Meta and Description. Unique and optimized title and Meta tags are really helpful in achieving higher search engine positions
Title:
this tag represents information of page this can be in browsers header bar
Meta keywords:
This include the targeted keywords for that particular page
Meta description:
The Meta description shows on the SERPS (search engine results page). It is used in describing the products / services you offer to your customers, you can describe specific pages within your website that shows in the search results page.
You can describe your pages the way you want them to be seen by your visitors in the SERPS (search engine results pages)
Next is alt tags, Alt tags is a white hat SEO practice used very commonly by search engine optimizers
Step 8 Monitoring
There are three basic things in the monitoring process. They are:
Monitoring your search engine positions:
You can go through the searches manually, you can use software like IBP to check your rankings or you can use online. There can find many related Seo tools listed here http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html
Monitoring Back Links
Schedule weekly checks of how many backlinks you have and are your link partners still linking to you
Monitoring Changes in the Search Environment
The last thing you will have to monitor is for changes with the search engines themselves.
Visiting forums and subscribing to newsletters to keep yourself updated about search engines algorithm changes
Step 9 social bookmarking
The social bookmarking is used by many people to bookmark their pages and websites. Using the social bookmarking visitors can bookmark the sites listed in the social networking websites. The popularity of the websites in the social bookmarking world gauged by most favorites websites among the visitors. The most bookmarked website obviously will get more traffic than others and it can also help improving your search engine ranking in major search engines.
How does it work?
In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Webpage Urls, which they find useful. Often, these lists are publicly accessible, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some social bookmarking systems allow for privacy on a per-bookmark basis.
Most bookmarking websites allows to enter multiple tags for your web pages in order to be searched by the visitors that helps social bookmarking visitors to get relevant and accurate search results for their keywords.
Advantages
1. Social bookmarking helps in promoting your website users market your site.
2. It indirectly helps by building a brand.
3. Generates targeted traffic.
Some important social bookmarking sites
Dig.com | Blink |Del.icio.us |Digg |Furl |Google |Simpy |Spurl |Y! MyWeb
Step 10 – Testing
You have created a great design and added SEO elements to your site. Now its time to see if all that hard work done has achieved the main goal of reaching the visitor and to convert them to a customer.
o Check for broken links :
o Other script errors
o Ease in navigating site
o visual appeal of the site
o placement of content
o are you able to find what u are looking for
You have created a great design and added SEO elements to your site. Now you should test your website for errors (i.e. 404 not found error, script errors etc.).
Check for broken links :
Other script errors
Ease in navigating site
Visual appeal of the site
Placement of content
Are your visitors able to find what they are looking for?
“
Sandeep Tyagi
http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/the-ten-important-steps-for-optimizing-your-website-for-search-engines-67620.html
Originally posted 2010-08-01 08:35:58.
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Originally posted 2010-04-06 11:37:16.
The Benefits of Online Marketing
Search engines are looking for what is called link popularity and this means people linking back to your website from an authority site. The more people linking back to your site the more popular the search engines think your site is, thus they will move you up or down in ranking for certain keywords based on this link popularity vote.
One of the most powerful ways to build your linkback strategies is to write articles and submit them to article directories. Online marketing through article submissions takes time, granted, there are no real shortcuts that last, but with article submissions you do two things. You add quality content to the web (which the search engines and site visitors love) and you get to put a link back to your site which becomes one of the many you will create in the future.
Over time you will have submitted several articles to submission sites and each new backlink embedded in every new article gains more and more value as it becomes synergised with the rest of them giving search engines a reason to take notice.
One way to profit from online marketing through article submissions is to build an AdSense site or an affiliate site advertising a link to a sales page for a product. Once the page is built and complies with seo standards you will need to get your traffic flowing. Traffic is the bread and butter. The more people that show up at your page the more likely you will generate revenue and for affiliate sites, sales. You need to submit your article to 1. an authority site and 2. a site that is your sites mirror concept. There is a great site that allows you to submit articles to it specifically to get a powerful back link as well as organic traffic from clicking your backlink.
Article submission sites carry a lot of weight especially when they are submitted to an authority site and link back to your money page. Building your linkbacks is what generates this traffic through the search engines as well as traffic from people who actually read your article and clicked through to your money page or AdSense site. It’s a slow process getting your linkbacks built up but once you get to a point where you have a lot of them you only need to submit 2-4 a month for each site your promoting to keep the rankings up there. You can make a lot of money by doing this for several sites, not just one. You will want to get one up and running and while your submitting a few articles submissions for that you start the next one. Each site only needs about 4 a month but you will start to develop a lot more sites when you see how lucrative it is. At this point you can start to outsource your article writing and it becomes a management game.
John
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/the-benefits-of-online-marketing-741295.html
Originally posted 2010-05-05 02:12:03.
Business Consulting – “Gear Up to Make Money Advertising on The Internet”
You would think that in general the answer to this question would be “yes”, but is it really?Is the answer to this question “yes”?Obviously, fashioning money on the Internet is worthwhile, but as with any type of business, it is only worthwhile if it is done properly. Put your wallet away and remember: why spend thousands of dollars on a television merchandising campaign, and no one sees your advertising or your commercials, and you do not reach your target audience and generate sales? You can now understand that Internet marketing is worthwhile when it works for you.Internet marketing is always worthwhile when it works for you.
The most fundamental principle is to make sure that you reach your target audience.The number one rule is to be sure you are reaching your target audience. As they are the ones interested in buying your products or services.Your target audience are the people who are interested in buying your product or service. Just consider this: it is much easier to sell your products or services to those who already have an interest in the products and services that you have to offer, than it is to convince those who are not interested in your products or services at all. It’s simplest to sell your product or service to consumers who are already interested in them.
Imagine your business selling motorbike helmets. Pretend that your business is selling motorbike helmets.You will want to market your products to those who enjoy riding their motorbikes either competitively or as a leisure time activity because among this audience you are likely to find people who may be interested in purchasing a new helmet.Common sense says that you will need to reach people who ride motorbikes for leisure or competition and or need a new helmet. It would make sense to place an advertisement for your business on a website selling helmets and jackets, or a website which organizes motorbike trips in various locations.Your first step would be to advertise on a website that sells helmets and jackets or even better a site that organizes motorbike trips. Conversely it would not make sense to place your advertisement on a website selling shoes because you are not likely to reach a large target audience here. The last place you would place an advertisement would be website that sells shoes as you likely will not find your audience there.There may be some motorbike fanatics with an interest in shoes but your advertising money and efforts would be much better spent placing advertisements with websites more closely kindred to your business.
Another important factor to consider when advertising is space on another Internet website. You should consider space on another internet website when looking into advertising.You are purchasing this site so you have to bear in mind the amount of traffic the other website receives. You need to place your advertisement on a website which is closely related to your own, and likely to attract a similar audience, but you also want your advertisement to receive a large amount of exposure through traffic and advertising. For this reason it is important for your advertisement to appear on a website which receives a great amount of traffic each month. This is forever and a day something to bear in mind if you want to make money on the internet. However, define whether you are really making a good regard in your advertising campaign or whether you are going too far over board with your campaign. Make your advertisement easy to approach in your key locations, so internet users want to make that initial visit before purchasing. If your site is an overkill, they will be tentative in forthcoming it, and others may be put off altogether. This is definitely harmful for any business, and is regarded as spam. They would be unlikely to visit you again, so take care in your advertising. More than likely they will not visit you again so pay close attention to your advertising.
Imagine, your advertisement is up and you need to know how it is all progressing. When your advertising is up you will need to know how it is all moving along.Obviously it is important to carefully supervise the results of your marketing efforts, making changes to your campaign as necessary. You want to make sure your marketing efforts are gainful off and you are not regarded as spam. The best way to do this is to measure the results of your advertising carefully. A particular way to do this is to place special coding in each one of your advertisements, so you will know which advertisements are generating business for you, and which ones are not. You can use this information to decide whether you should modify the inefficacious website or stop running the ineffectual websites – full stop. If you decide to modify them you will want to continue to monitor the results to determine whether or not the changes made the advertisements more effective. These basic techniques will put you on the road to internet success; you will then be ready to begin your gamble. Just using these basic techniques will start you on your path to internet success and your adventure can begin.Follow your passion in making money and find out more information. Money will follow you when you follow your passion and follow your passion with research and information.
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Originally posted 2010-11-10 22:03:35.
