Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking, Revised Edition
Who Is Talking About You?
Foreword by Seth Godin and Afterword by Guy Kawasaki.
Master the art of word of mouth marketing with this practical hands-on guide.
With straightforward advice and humor, marketing expert Andy Sernovitz will show you how the world’s most respected and profitable companies get their best customers for free through the power of word of mouth.
Learn the five essential steps that make word of mouth work and everything you need to get started using them. Understand the real purpose of blogs, communities, viral email, evangelists, and buzz–when to use them and how simple it is to make them work.
Learn what sparks the irrepressible enthusiasm of Apple and TiVo fans. Understand why everyone is talking about a certain restaurant, car, band, or dry cleaner–and why other businesses and products are ignored. Discover why some products become huge successes without a penny of promotion–and why some multi-million-dollar advertising campaigns fail to get noticed.
Open your eyes to a new way of doing business–that honest marketing makes more money, because customers who trust you will talk about you. Learn how to be the remarkable company that people want to share with their friends.
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Originally posted 2010-10-06 04:35:58.
SEO in How to Avoid Getting the Boot on Google
SEO involves concentrating on subjects. When you concentrate on subjects and the audience, you put selfish desires out of mind and focus in front of you.
This is important. To avoid getting the boot on Google or other major search engines you want to keep the focus in mind and learn legal SEO strategies to help you promote your web pages.
To get started think; Phrase and keywords – users and customers – products – services – relevancy, quality
Your keywords are important, since these words will drive web traffic to your pages. You want to consider optimization, which is a SEO marketing strategy. Users will search engines looking for relevant keywords. Optimization is process of giving users what they want only they do not have to spend too much time finding relevant links or information.
Per se, if you were offering web services, such as SEO marketing, you would focus on relevant keywords, such as:
Keywords – SEO marketing, SEO strategies, SEO solutions, Search Engine Optimization -
Keyword density is important. You want your keywords to appear within your URL tags. As well, you want these keywords to have relevancy in your title tags.
Add keywords to your domain name, Keyword tags, description tags, Alt text, and link text and so on. Density is the process of optimizing your web sites to make it easier for users to find your site.
Google has a Page Ranking system and expects density keywords. You want to avoid cramming. Cramming to Google’s, MSN, Yahoo, etc are not permitted. Your first lines, as well as your centerline, and then the ending paragraphs should have your keywords within the body of the article, as well as somewhere in between. Exploit keywords that submit messages to your targeted audience.
What makes, one website in front of other websites is the direct HITS. If your web keywords are steady, it will drive traffic to your web pages. This is something that Google commends. You want to avoid certain SEO tactics however. You can learn some of the basic SEO legal laws on the Internet. Learning these laws will prevent you from getting the boot. This means you will not be listed in Google’s online indexes or directories. This further means that you will not have a rank on Google’s search engine.
The main thing you want to work on is keyword density, links, description, etc. Make sure that you keep relevancy, quality and informative in mind when focusing on these SEO strategies. Keeping this in mind will take you a long way is SEO marketing.
Martin Lukac
http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/seo-in-how-to-avoid-getting-the-boot-on-google-135689.html
Originally posted 2010-03-02 15:43:18.
Why Is Search Engine Marketing So Effective?
SEM (Search Engine Marketing) is a pooling of various online marketing strategies to increase traffic flow to a website, a blanket term which includes SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SMO (Social Media Optimization), pay-per-click advertising, and paid inclusion into search engines.
But why is SEM so effective? A good SEM campaign can vastly increase your website’s traffic and boost sales, more so than any other marketing campaign. So why does it work so well?
The answer is variety. SEM draws on many different strategies, rather than relying on just one. SMO “gets the word out” to entire communities of people who stand to be interested in your products and services. Pay-per-click advertising works much like standard marketing, placing your advertisements on the monitors of hundreds if not thousands of people across the internet. Paid inclusion makes sure that search engines get around to evaluating and listing your website in a timely fashion. And SEO ensures that your website’s META tags, keyword content, and backlink promotions all work together to ensure that your website places as high as possible on said search engines.
In essence, where your traditional marketing campaign might target only one or two areas, good SEM covers the full spectrum of marketing possibilities.
Be sure before paying for SEM that you know what the company is offering, however. A good SEM service will be upfront about which of these services it offers, and how much it charges for them. Some SEM services focus on only one or two aspects of online marketing, such as search engine inclusion and SEO, for example. Others offer certain services for low prices, but charge significantly more to include the full spectrum of SEM. And there is nothing wrong with paying an SEM service to do strictly SEO or strictly search engine inclusion. But you should know upfront that that’s all the service plans to do, and that anything more will cost extra.
SEM is effective because it works with the natural patterns of traffic on the internet. It capitalizes on advertisements, on search engines, even on word of mouth through social media. A good SEM company knows how to use each outlet of marketing to its best advantage, and your business booms as a result of it. That’s the true secret of SEM; knowing how to work with the internet, instead of working against it.
SEOExpert
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/why-is-search-engine-marketing-so-effective-139469.html
Originally posted 2010-01-27 16:43:01.
Top 5 Important Details Before Hiring an SEO Company
Search Engine Optimization or simply SEO has become one of the most successful tools in internet marketing. Everywhere, online business entrepreneurs are beginning to employ this internet marketing strategy to boost their success in their online businesses.
Though it is quite easy to find an SEO company that’ll work on the campaign, locating a suitable one is another thing. Also, once an SEO campaign starts, it is important that clients should also participate in every step the team takes. SEO “is” a team-based project and participation from both the SEO team and the client can tip the scales between success and failure.
Here are the top 5 details that a client should take before hiring an SEO company.
Granting Full Access
One of the details that a client should be aware of before hiring an SEO company is granting a full access on their website. SEO campaigns usually involve the website having extensive but recommended changes in it. These changes are commonly seen on Meta tags, Alt tags and on the link partners’ page. Changes may even involve a full reconstruction of the whole website.
So it is important that clients must inform their IT team of changes that can be done in an SEO campaign.
Visit an online search engine optimization orange county site to learn more about SEO strategies and tactics.
Full Control of the site’s Web Copy
Apart from the construction of the website, the site’s web copy should also undergo some minor or sometimes extensive reconstruction. Because of the introduction of systematically researched keywords for SEO, web copies should be able to integrate these important elements.
Before hiring an SEO company, clients should have a talk with their team about the changes that are going to be done in their web copy. This is important because things will almost certainly need to run copy changes through the legal department before they go live. If the company sells medicine, for example, the copy may need to be run by its manufacturer for accuracy.
Knowledge of the Current System
A good SEO company always knows if the site’s construct can impede some implementations of recommended elements to help boost the success of an SEO campaign. One of which is CMS or the Content Management Systems.
Some CMS, especially the older ones, do not allow changes to be made in the system that are beneficial to search engines. If the client’s SEO Company has experience about this, they should be able to let the client go in the right direction and assist to switch to a more SEO friendly platform. More about this by visiting an online search engine optimization orange county site.
Team Work
SEO efforts require that their clients spend as much time as they spend on other marketing strategies. This is to ensure that all processes are in line and that the SEO Company is making it to schedule.
Clients must be able to give feedback, approve changes, and making sure that the work being done is consistent with their overall message. If a client didn’t spend much as an hour in making sure that all processes are in order in the SEO efforts, and takes it on the back stage, large amount of money will go to waste. Including bills paid on the SEO Company.
Full Information
Clients have the right to know what strategies and tactics that the SEO company will undertake. The SEO company should be able to provide their clients enough information to fill them in on what’s going to happen on every step the SEO company will take.
To learn more about the process of SEO, visit an online search engine optimization orange county or visit Clearmedia at www.clearmediaonline.com.
Patricia Brooks
http://www.articlesbase.com/web-design-articles/top-5-important-details-before-hiring-an-seo-company-731245.html
Originally posted 2010-03-09 14:43:12.
The Facts And Fiction Of Meta Tags
It amazes me sometimes, the amount of outdated and mis-information that can be found on the internet.
One of the best examples would certainly have to be Meta Tags. I still talk to people that are of the firm belief that all they have to do is add the proper META tags to a site and that site will automagically rank for their target terms. Where do they get this information? The internet of course.
With that in mind, I’ve decided to put down the fact and fiction regarding META tags as of 2007.
First, for anyone who is new to the net and unsure of what a META tag is, let me define what exactly META tags are.
META tags, are bits of code that are placed within the tags of a webpage. Their intent was and is, to give information on certain aspects of that page to software programs (such as search engine spiders) without that information being readily visible to the normal visitor.
The two best known (and misunderstood) META tags are the “description” and “keywords” META tags. It is the outdated and false information that is associated with these two tags that is the reason I am writing this article.
Let’s start with the description tag. The META description tag was designed to give robots visiting your page a brief description of what that page is about. It is this description that is often used along with the page title in the SERPs (search engine results pages). So, by adding the META description tag to a page, you are able to (sometimes) control the text used to describe that page in the SERPs.
The question is, does the META description help with the actual ranking of the page. At one point in time, yes, it did. Does it today? NO! Not at ALL.
Ok…now on to the META keywords tag. This particular tag, was originally intended to give robots indexing a page a list of keywords that particular page was about. This was a BIG thing. This tag literally allowed you to TELL the search engines WHAT keywords that page was supposed to rank for. Wow…imagine the possibilities.
Well, MANY people imagined the possibilities and MANY people to FULL advantage of them. So many, that within a matter of just a year or two of it’s initial use, almost none of the top engines even used it anymore. As of today, NONE of the top engines use the keywords tag in any way for ranking purposes.
So…does the keyword tag still have any uses? Nope. The thought was nice, but the greed of many webmasters quickly made this tag obsolete and useless. You will still find many sites using this tag as it doesn’t hurt anything, but it has absolutely no beneficial affect on ranking any longer.
To summarize, neither the META description or keywords tags have any positive affect on rankings. The only one of these two tags that has any use is the keywords tag and that is simply to assist in controlling the description used in the search engine listings.
If you run into someone telling you they will work with your META tags to help your rankings RUN, don’t walk away from them!
See you at the top!
John Buchanan
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/the-facts-and-fiction-of-meta-tags-136386.html
Originally posted 2010-07-17 17:13:47.
Is search engine optimization a possible career?
I work for a marketing firm who specializes in website that have been optimized for search engines. I am thinking of becoming an exclusive ‘search engine optimizer’ but am wondering if this is too broad of a category. Can one specialize in this and make a decent living? Thank you to anyone who answers with good advice!
It’s a possible career, but a very narrow area to look for a job. If you already have a job doing this and keep it, you can probably make a very good living, but I’d guess that isn’t what you are asking.
Working for a company that markets optimized search engines is very different from being the person, or a part of the group, that does the optimizing.
Originally posted 2010-02-18 04:02:22.
