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ISSUE #170
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Organic
Search Engine
Marketing - It Really Works!
By
Brooks Donner (c) 2008
While
helping traditional ecommerce companies boost their
organic search engine marketing, I realized that the
services and techniques we apply to those traditional
ecommerce clients can be utilized by Internet marketers
anywhere and everywhere, including affiliate marketers!
My realization led me to write this article. My goal
here is to outline the general process and techniques we
employ for organic search engine marketing.
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I'm going to construct the body of this article with
the following sections:
1. Organic search engine marketing v. paid search
engine marketing (PPC)
2. Blogs v. static web pages
3. Long tail keywords v. short head keywords
4. Unique content and Web 3.0
5. Internet marketing and Web 2.0
1. Organic Search Engine
Marketing v. Paid Search Engine Marketing (PPC)
Organic search engine marketing is marketing a website
to improve the ranking for its web pages in the organic,
or natural, search engine results pages (SERPs).
Paid search engine marketing is incorporating paid
advertising strategies such as Google's Adwords or Yahoo's
Search Marketing in order to be listed in the
"sponsored" or "advertisement"
sections of the search engine results pages (SERPs).
With the increasing costs of paid search engine
marketing, advertisers have been suffering from a downward
trend in return on investment (ROI). On the other hand,
with more sophisticated and proven strategies for organic
search engine marketing, the return on investment (ROI)
for those who market to rank higher naturally in the SERPs
is increasing. Therefore, we advise ecommerce companies,
affiliates and super-affiliates alike to shift their
resources from paid search engine marketing to organic
search engine marketing.
2. Blogs v. Static
Web Pages
Blogs have an inherent and distinct advantage over
static web pages. Search engines like blogs better.
Everything being equal (design, content, page layout, H
tags, Alt tags, age, etc.), a blog page will outrank a
static web page more often than not. However, all things
are not equal! Blogs take advantage of plug-ins, or
features, to be very search engine friendly.
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We create and customize "Power Blogs" for our
clients. A "Power Blog" is a search engine
friendly WordPress blog with tons of SEO plug-ins. Once we
install a Power Blog we use it as a platform for Web 2.0
marketing, a.k.a. social marketing.
The benefits of our Power Blog include:
(A) Multi-Channel Visitor Strategy - Instead of
having Google be responsible for 95% of your visitors, now
you can also get visitors from all of the Blog Search
Engines. Because blogs use RSS (really simple
syndication), you will find that other websites are
syndicating your content on their websites, bringing you
more visitors and links. By having multiple streams of
visitors you protect yourself in case one of your traffic
streams starts to underperform.
(B) Free Links To Your Site - The amount of
links that you have to your site plays a huge role in how
highly you rank on Google. By utilizing the Trackback
feature in Wordpress, you can automatically get other
websites to link to you for free.
3. Long Tail Keywords
v. Short Head Keywords
Remember, this is called "Organic Search Engine
Marketing".....it's marketing, and marketing needs a
focus. In order to focus in on what to market for, you
need to have a solid foundation of the main keywords that
describe your business and/or products that you are
selling. These main keywords are one to three phrase
keywords (or keyword phrases) generally speaking and are
more than likely highly competitive. These types of
keywords are known as "Short Head" keywords. For
example, "car insurance."
Once you know your short head keywords, you will want
to market directly to more specific, longer keywords
related to the main short head keywords. These longer,
more specific keywords are known as "Long Tail"
keywords. For example, "car insurance discounts in
Georgia."
Although the traffic for each long tail keyword is
usually much less than its short tail relative, if you add
up all the long tail keywords, they will usually add up to
much more traffíc and most importantly, targeted traffíc,
than the short tail keywords alone.
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4. Unique Content and
Web 3.0
Once you have targeted the long tail keywords for your
business or niche, then you can start marketing for them.
The cornerstone for organic search engine marketing is
unique content creation. Whether it's 500-word articles,
blog posts, blog comments, forum posts, social snippets,
or videos, you are going to want to be able to create
unique content based on your long tail keywords.
Web 3.0 is a term that refers to the future of the
World Wide Web. In our opinion, that future includes the
"Semantic Web" or web use affected by artificial
intelligence. Sounds kind of like Star Wars, Alien and E.T.
all wrapped into one big and scary WWW...doesn't it?!
Well, not really of course. Semantic Web in this case just
means that search engines will be able to figure out what
a web page is all about in a different, more intelligent
way. The major idea here is that search engines will take
a more encompassing view at a page and understand its
meaning rather making a determination based on figuring
out which keywords pop up most often. In this new Web 3.0
scenario, a search engine might find a web page on
"sun tanning in Florida" to also be quite
relevant to "sun tan oil application" and
therefore líst this example page in the search engine
results pages under both keywords.
What does Web 3.0 mean to you? Basically, when creating
your unique content, keep the semantic web concept in mind
and use synonyms for your target keyword wherever it's
natural. Don't stuff keywords in your content, i.e. use a
keyword just to use it and not when it should be used
naturally...and don't stuff keyword synonyms either!
5. Internet Marketing
and Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is the "Social Web," so naturally,
the concept of social marketing should apply to today's
Internet Marketing strategies.
Social marketing includes posting on social networking,
social news and social bookmarking websites.
You can also think of blogging as part of Web 2.0, and
of course you're covered because you have read Section 2
above.
In conclusion, whether you own your ecommerce business
and sell your products, or if you are an affiliate or
super-affiliate, organic search engine marketing must be
on your "actions líst." In the long run,
outranking your competitors in the search engine results
pages proves to bring a higher return on investment (ROI)
than trying to out-advertise your competitors in paid
search engine marketing.
You now have the basic know-how to create your organic
search engine marketing strategy.
About
The Author
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Contact TopLine Media Group today to start driving unlímited
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Engine Marketing service. Plus, get a no-obligation Free Internet
Marketing Consultation at http://www.TopLineMediaGroup.
com .
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