Archive for the ‘Search Engine Marketing’ Category

A Few Steps To Increase Adwords Conversions

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

When it comes to using Google Adwords for Internet marketing you need to have a profitable conversion rate. There are a few different steps you can take to make sure you have profitable Adwords campaigns.

One of the first things you need to do for profitable campaigns is, follow your traffic. You need to figure out what your visitors do as soon as they hit your landing page. Things like how many visitors leave, where they go if they stay, how many add a product or products to the shopping cart and how abandon the shopping cart. You also need to find out who made purchases, what they purchased and the process they took to complete their purchase. This will help you make changes to your campaigns and website to get more visitors to buy.

Following the process through to conversions can be some of the most beneficial information you can have. There will most likely be some consistency to your visitors who convert and you can incorporate that information into your ads. The most effective ads are ones that receive less clicks and better conversions. The more targeted your ads are, the less clicks you’ll get, the better your conversion rate. Chances are you will have ads that will have a high bounce rate but also a high conversion rate. This is due to a misleading ad and needs to be tweaked to be more targeted.

A negative keyword list is probably one of the most important aspects. If you do not create a negative keyword list your ad will be displayed for keywords completely non-related to your niche. For example, if you sell commercial lights and you do not have home lights as a negative keyword your ad may show up for that search term. Obviously this is the exact opposite type of visitors you’re looking for. A good way to find related keywords that your ad may come up for is to use the Adwords keyword tool. For instance type in lights and make a list of keywords that you would not want your add to show up for. This is probably one of Adwords biggest flaws, the fact that they display your add for more than the keyword or keywords you select. The only way to fix this is by adding negative keywords.

Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

If you want to have the most successful Internet business possible you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket. What I mean by this is you don’t want to rely solely on organic traffic; you don’t want to rely solely on paid traffic and so on.

You definitely want to develop your website to eventually achieve top organic search rankings but you don’t want to rely on it. The reason for this is because you are at the mercy of the search engines algorithm. While it is definitely possible to achieve top organic search results and maintain it, you are limiting your website it several ways. Top organic search results is definitely not something that will happen over night or even over a few months. While you build your website and let it age you need another form of traffic to generate sales. The best way to achieve this is to use pay per click advertising with the keywords you want your website to come up for organically. You will obviously have to find a method that works the best to make this method profitable. The good thing about this is once you find a method to turn a profit it’s endless from there. When your website slides into the first page organic position you will have a conversion rate that you may have never achieved if you only went the organic route. You will also not receive the customers who are only clicking on the sponsored search results. This means that your competitors are capturing customers that you never even had a chance to.

So keep an eye on your search engine rankings and keep up with the changing ranking strategies. Always keep organic search rankings as icing on the cake and go out and get traffic with pay per click.

Using PPC When You’re Organically Ranked High

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

There are many advantages to using pay per click marketing even when you’re ranked high in search engines organically. One of the biggest advantages it can have is pushing your competitor’s ads down. This will allow you to receive more clicks and obviously give them less. A lot of consumers will never click the ads toward the bottom and they will never have a chance to even find out about some of your competitors.

Pay per click ads can also be changed as often as you would like. This allows you show consumers when you’re having a sale or when you’re running a special promotion. It also allows you to give consumers an ad that will receive a better click through rate. This is something you can not do with organic search pages without hurting your SEO. In other words it can become a much better selling technique.

Another thing to take into perspective is the fact that some will only click on the paid ads that are above the organic search results. So while you may be ranked number one organically for the searched keyword or term you’re targeting, you may not receive clicks that you would receive if you used pay per click.

SEO Strategy To Follow

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The first thing you need to keep in mind is that you want to target one specific keyword or keyword phrase per page. This is important because trying to target multiple keywords on a single page will lead to that page not being ranked well for any keywords and completely defeating the purpose.

The next step you need to take is to make sure that you have that keyword or keyword phrase “scattered” on your page. While it is important to have your keyword or keyword phrase on your page you want to make sure you don’t overdue it and have enough other content to make it look “natural”. This way your content gives your visitors the information they need and the search engine spiders can correctly place that page.

The keyword or keyword phrase also needs to be in the page title. Your page’s title is what will show up in the search engines and what those searching will click to take them to your page. This is not only important for your pages keyword authority and how it will be placed in the search engine, but it will also increase your click through rate because your title has the keyword or keyword phrase that is being searched for.

Your meta description or the description of your page is about as important as your page title. Your page’s meta description will need to include your keyword or keyword phrase like your page title. However, this is where you want to do a little selling but keep it short because the search engines only show so much text. For instance, “We carry several styles of Nike shoes and most include a free pair of socks.”

The last thing you need to be aware of is the amount of internal and external links each of your pages has. Obviously you can’t necessarily control your external incoming links but you can do things to help others link to you. You can do things like providing the html for others to use in order to link to that particular page. However, your internal links you can control. It’s very beneficial to have a link back to that page in your title or the keyword or keyword phrase of that page. This way any internal links that are indexed will help with the correct placement of that page. If done correctly your internal linking structure can do wonders for your rankings.

If you follow this Internet marketing strategy with every page that you launch, you are sure to see amazing results. Remember to always try and keep it simple with keywords because the simple keywords are the ones that your average consumer would type in.

Domain Name Length

Friday, January 30th, 2009

A domain name is something a lot of people take for granted when starting a website. This is one step that if done correctly, can make all of the difference in your SEO and your click through rate. It’s been proven that a shorter domain and or URL will receive higher click through rates. However the good ones are very hard to come by nowadays without buying one from someone or already owning one. For instance, obviously Shoes.com is already take and being used to generate millions of dollars. This is the best possible domain you can have for selling shoes. Not only is it short but it’s good for search engine rankings and direct type in customers. A lot of people would say ok so the next best thing would be like Shoez.com or something similar right? Wrong, yeah it’s a short domain name but it will make it very difficult to rank high in search engines for the keyword shoes or keywords with shoes in it. While it is good to have a short domain name you also need to make sure you aren’t sacrificing your websites SEO capabilities. Without taking advantage of the traffic SEO can bring you, you’re missing out on barrels of targeted traffic. So while you may receive a better click through rate what does that matter if you have very few clicks? The route you want to go is a domain that has shoes in the beginning. So while your domain name may be longer you will receive much more traffic far outweighing the click through rate worries.

Submitting To Search Engines

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

When it comes to search engines there’s no room for mistakes. If you want to get substantial amounts of traffic from search engines you have to do it right. If you don’t you’re better off starting fresh with a brand new website. You have to remember search engines like Google and Yahoo have complex algorithms and there’s no room for error.

A lot of people ask; how do I go about getting my website even listed in the search engines? Well there are several ways you can go about it but only one completely safe way. You could submit your website manually to each search engine. You could also use a professional search engine consultant. Search engines specifically Google are getting better and better at picking up websites without them even being submitted. Mainly because they crawled a link to your website on a website already listed in their search engine. This is the best way become listed in search engines. By letting search engines naturally crawl your website you eliminate the risk of your website not getting listed. If you manually submit your website and they already picked it up you risk the chance of your website not being listed do to multiple submission. Although this is very rare and in most cases you will still be listed if this happens it’s a better idea to not even take the risk.