Search Marketing: SEO and Paid Search Advertising
Over 90% of online experiences start with search.
When potential customers search online for the products and services you sell, they’re starting with Google, Bing or another search engine. Are you doing enough to help them find you?
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
Our SEO program starts with a website evaluation that examines the basic components that search engines use to rank pages (including page titles, meta descriptions, image descriptions and your page text). We also research common keywords used by your target audience and find ways to incorporate them into your site. We’ll make sure you have enough text on your pages, check your site’s download speed, and look for duplicate text that search engines might find suspicious.
Improved SEO drives more organic (unpaid) traffic to your website.
SEM
Search Engine Marketing
SEM includes many types of search advertising. Most common are pay-per-click ads on Google or Bing, which are displayed along with organic search results. Paid ads show up in searches for specific keywords or phrases that you choose. In most cases, you bid for these ads to show up in search results, but pay only when people click on them. If you target by geography, you can focus your advertising budget in areas most likely to generate the results you want. Paying for ads on networks like Google and Bing also allows you to target key phrases that people search when they are at the end of the buying cycle and ready to buy.
SEO and SEM
Double the Power
Although searchers are more likely to click on unpaid, organic links than on paid search advertising, research shows there’s high value in combining them. We will plan and execute paid search-advertising campaigns to make your search optimization more effective. A paid search ad helps your business occupy more of the scarce real estate on a search results’ first page (the one that matters). Studies suggest that click rates increase when searchers see more than one result for the same domain on the same page. Combining SEO and paid search campaigns also results in higher conversions—including everything from sales to email newsletter sign-ups.