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Showing posts with label seo keywords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seo keywords. Show all posts

Recession Tactics for PPC & SEO

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Despite the economic crisis having a universal effect from the consumer to the business sector, online marketing remains a reliable media with which to maintain and promote a business. SEO and PPC advertising is still considered a far efficient and less expensive method than traditional marketing. It is critical, however, to make every penny and marketing effort count.

Reevaluate
: The convenience of PPC and SEO is the ability to track down the effects of your marketing efforts in a span of weeks or even days, compared to traditional media where you could lose hundreds of dollars before being aware of it.



If your website is not ranking or your ad is not showing, you are still paying for expensive clicks that seldom convert into sales, those will be clear signs that something is wrong with your campaign.

Restructure
: Depending on the performance of your current ads or your website ranking, it is possible that a change in technique is necessary.




Check if your bids are still at a competitive level. For non-performing keywords and ad copies, consider examining your text and advertisement content for more effective marketing messages.

The search engines and competitive intelligence tools provide countless information on how to compete. This is evident the moment you start searching for keywords on their platforms. Consider better and related material and information you can use to improve your campaign.

Retarget: The focus of every business of late, online or otherwise, is to reach out, if not maintain clientele. Exploring other keywords can also be beneficial as it also opens doors to new markets as well as lessen your overall ad spend.



Take a keyword that has a suggested bid of $1.10 with average clicks of 573 per day but has over 17 competing advertisers, if you can compete with the cost and that many other websites, that’s great. But how much money are you going to lose in such a process?




Now consider a keyword that has a lesser amount of suggested bid, a considerable amount of clicks per day and is within a competitive field with your website. It just might me a better and safer investment for your company.

Online marketing is still an unshakable industry despite the present financial setbacks. Maintaining control, staying informed, and making educated decisions at a crucial time are your best bets against a spiraling economy.

For more information on PPC & SEO keyword research, keyword tracking and budget intelligence, visit KeywordSpy.com.

SEO vs PPC: Breakdown of Possibilities

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The two most popular online marketing techniques by far is Search Engine Optimization and pay Per Click Marketing. There are proper ways to do both but I will be handing down in detail which technique works for a website.

TYPICAL USERS. Typical users of SEO are new and small businesses with a bit of a tight-budget. SEO can be pretty cheap as compared to PPC so it works well for smaller websites who just want to get listed. On the other hand other mid-level companies employ PPC as their main online marketing tool. It’s a faster way to reach consumers. It does have a price so only those who are willing enough to shell out cash for the ad space are willing to do this. It can also be noted that generally, the fact that a company uses PPC ads adds a vote of confidence on their part. People perceive that those on paid advertising arena can afford the space because their products are well established. If you have enough cash you can do both SEO and PPC of course, or you can consult an SEO agency do the job for you.

TIME. When we talk internet, we connote it to speed and instant results. But the effects of SEO and Pay Per Click vary. SEO usually means natural ranking. Letting the website speaks for itself. A couple of word-with-links here and there and there would still be a time to wait for search engines to pick of your site's popularity and index it on their site. Visibility in search engines through SEO could take weeks even months.

Pay per Click Marketing works a lot faster than SEO. Pay per Click or PPC is an online advertising means whereby you contract search engines to place and ad for your company whenever a keyword of your choosing will be searched on their site. Placing an ad in this case is as fast as 10 minutes or even less! The visibility of the ad, however, depends on how much you’re willing to pay.

COST. PPC can be pretty costly or cheap depending on the keywords you use and the amount you are willing to bid on to get them placed. The amount of your bid determines the position of the ad. This is one powerful way of beating your YSM or Adwords competitors. The higher - the better the placement.

SEO on the other hand does not have to be too costly. If you are a small business just trying to get the word out on your business, and you’re doing SEO-it-yourself, optimizing your site is pretty easy. Choose a few keywords to work with, write a good copy for your site and a few linkbuilding techniques and you are on your way. Some online directories will require you to pay a price to have your site listed in their sites but if you're on a tight budget, I suggest opting free reciprocal linking with quality directories instead. Remember, I’m talking about DIY SEO. Paying for the service via expert SEO agencies is another matter.

COMPETITORS. Now this is pretty complicated. Competitors vying to get the same top spot just like you means, well, just about everybody! Imagine the internet as gigantic ocean with all sorts of marine animals. If you're just a clownfish looking for your son, then what an adventure that would be, right? But online marketing is no kid's movie. So it’s imperative that you narrow down the competition to reach your target market efficiently. Thank heavens for keywords!

When we're taking about SEO keywords, the number of your competitors depends on the keywords you are focusing on. Focus on ones that describe your business in a specific manner. That way you would be narrowing down your competition and targeting consumers with a specific product/ service in mind. You can use various keyword tools for this. KeywordSpy is what I’m using right now. You can look at organic searches and mine related keywords if you run out of ideas.

The same goes for Pay per Click keywords. The competition is highly dependent on the number of advertisers bidding on the same keywords as you. If you plan on taking on keywords being used by the "sharks" in the industry, I’m talking about those big companies with online history and a big spending limit, better be prepared to get eaten up. So the same principle applies, if you go with specific keywords, you have a better chance of surviving fighting off the same fish instead of the entire ocean.

SPACE. With PPC, the amount of opportunity to showcase your business comes in two or three small lines per ad space. That’s your title, URL, and description. Your ad has to catch the consumer's attention, connect with them and attract them enough to click on your ad. Of course, the more ads the better. You'll have a better opportunity selling your business in different ways.

SEO also has great opportunities for promotion. The number of ways you can influence ranking by creating relevant content is enormous. You can have your entire website as your canvass. You can also promote via linkbuilding, forum and blog participation and more to get your message out there.

So there you have it, a simple breakdown on SEO and PPC advertising. It’s all in a manner of choosing which fits your business. The last tip I could probably provide is of course, when it comes down to it. Your product or service has to be worth all that. I say this all the time. Visibility is one thing, getting the consumers as customers, is all on you.