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Kapil Gupta asked:


The question “Is SEO marketing or technology?” has been debated heatedly for the last decade. So far the debate has mostly been won by technologists, but overtime as the Online World has evolved to measuring business results, and the search engines have become more sophisticated to delivering results, the scales have started to tilt towards the marketing camp.

What exactly is Search Engine Optimization?

Most online businesses along with SEO companies define SEO as a set of techniques that help ensure that the website is built such that the search engines treat them as relevant targets (destinations) for the appropriate Keywords. These Keywords are the ones a potential customer would type on the search engine to find you or your business.

This has led to the interpretation that SEO is creation of a structure such that your website is populated very heavily with appropriate Keywords. Based on how your website is populated with these Keywords the search engines will display your company or website in the search results in response to a search query. Hence, SEO is about finding the right Keywords and ensuring those Keywords are heavily populated on your website.

Now, I am in agreement with this definition, but I would submit that this interpretation is incomplete and misses the big picture.

The fundamental question to be addressed is whether the online presence we build is for the search engines to drive appropriate traffic or whether the websites we build are for the potential customer to get the best information when he or she interacts with the company in the Online World. SEO experts have always grappled with this question, till the answer was provided by none other than the sources themselves, the search engine companies, and they ruled in favor of the customers.

All of the search engines today are sophisticated enough that they don’t look for Keywords on website; they actually measure you on the relevancy of your content and your website to the query initiated by the searcher. So, SEO is no longer “The technology of Keyword stuffing and links”; SEO has transformed into the marketing and art of making your website relevant to the search, and providing people with maximum pull to convert from visitors to Customers. Relevancy for the customer has become the single most important factor for a search engine to rate any business.

The art of providing this pull to the customers has always been thought of as a feature of the website and has always been delegated to the web-designers and marketers, but the changing preferences of people in the online world and the maturity of the industry is calling for this to change.

I have always been a firm believer that all potential customers require appropriate messaging addressing all their concerns before they engage with a website or a business. SEO/PPC Services must accomplish this task.

Take a moment and answer this question:

What makes you decide to click on a particular result when you search on Google?

I hope your answer is the content of that link you see on the search results page, which are the ‘Title’ and the ‘Description’. If you didn’t then please conduct a search for something and observe the results you get back.

For a customer using SEO, the first interaction with a company happens when they type the Keyword in the search engine. The initial concerns of the customer needs to be handled right there. So, an SEO specialist must think about Title and Descriptions for a customer’s website not just from a technology (Keyword Density) standpoint, but more importantly from the standpoint of addressing the customer concerns. This philosophy has been used in PPC for quite sometime, but never made it to the SEO world due to requirements for Keyword stuffing.

Given that ‘Title’ and ‘Description’ play a critical role in people clicking on the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs), you would want to take utmost care in writing the content for these tags. Your SEO results are like Ads for your webpage.

You may not be ranked 1st on Google for a desired keyword, still you can acquire more (and relevant) traffic (reminds you of CTR?) to your website than the site which is 1st. Provided, the content you write in the Title and Description tags is relevant to the searchers. To breakdown ‘relevancy’ further, I would recommend asking yourself the following questions, while you are writing Title and Description tags for your web pages:

1. Are you communicating effectively with all potential customer segments?

People in different stages of their buying cycle.

People with different level of knowledge of your domain, you product or its usability.

People with different behavior types.

The search optimizer needs to develop enough domain expertise or utilize domain expertise where it’s available to identify all customer concerns, and prioritize the customer concerns to address them at appropriate communication outlets. Communication of value propositions and differentiation has also to be integrated into the thought process effectively.

2. Are you persuading the searcher to take the desired action? For e.g. if you are looking at getting people try your product for free, do mention the same, especially in the way that ‘you are calling them for action’.

3. Is your copy optimized for SEO? While ensuring the above points, do not forget to optimize your tags for SEO – in other words, do include the keywords in your tags. Otherwise you will not even get the chance to benefit from the above ?.

Look at the following search results (in the actual order they appear) when a PMP (Project Management Professional) certification aspirant searches for ‘pmp certification‘ on Google.

Don’t you think that the 3rd result is likely to drive more clicks than the 1st and the 2nd result.

The 3rd title/description addresses all initial customer concerns, namely: What does the company offer (SCJP Exam prep to pass SCJP Certification Exam), what have they done so far (Since 2000, 1M+ users, 50K customer), what did other people get from them (99.7% success), will they be valuable for me (Comprehensive report); can I try (free mock test); are they a very small company (ISO9001 certification); can I trust them (100% guarantee).

At the same time, this Title and Description has good usage of Keywords as well. SCJP, Certification, Exam, Prep, Mock, Test, users are all very important Keywords for this customer.

Since Google will only display around first 60 characters of the Title Tag and first 155 characters of the Description Meta tag, companies should ensure that they are addressing the above questions within the given limits. And, most of the times, it will require you to be creative. So, when you are looking for hiring an SEO professional, don’t forget to add ‘creativity’ as one of the key skills.

Now, let me make a giant leap and refer to your online presence as your sales person on the web. With that, your online presence should provide everything that your sales person provides your customer. Take some time and evaluate your online presence as if you were evaluating your sales person, and see how good of a sales person it is or another way to question would to evaluate your marketing efforts in equipping and training your salesperson.

From Titles and Descriptions, to the website content, navigation and usability, to content of PR’s and Articles and Social Bookmarking, consider all your SEO efforts as part of your marketing efforts equipping, training, and building an effective sales person. Addressing customer concerns at every stage of the buying cycle is something that comes naturally to the exceptional sales person, and it needs to be replicated in your online presence.

If your online presence is designed to answer the questions your website visitors ask, you can not only expect higher Search Engine rankings but also better conversions, which is even more important than getting more traffic. The same applies to the keyword research. Ultimately, relevancy is the key and that is what a Search Engine now rates higher than any other parameter.

Given that Search Engines are always striving to produce high quality SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages), the parameter that determines their success, a Search Engine Optimizer always stand to win in a long run by betting on usability.

In this article we explored how writing effective Titles and Descriptions can help your business and conversions grow. In the next article, we will explore other areas where a conversion-oriented philosophy will take even closer to your goals. Its not about traffic, it is all about relevant traffic and conversions. Read more learning’s on online marketing article page.



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Andy Michaels asked:


So here you are with all your confidence in Internet marketing. You are going to make a go at the big world of endless cyber space possibilities. Perhaps you already have your own little store? I will tell you that it is not as easy as people make it out to be.

You make your way out into the social networking communities but what are they and what are you suppose to do? You join, with the expectation that everyone will just come around and flock to your profile, then gladly join your opportunity. Not!, and I will tell you why and show you what to do about it. I mean you had the new store and people were just thrilled to come in when you first opened, but did they stay? I sincerely doubt it, because there are things that you need to do to keep them coming.

I want to break down the techniques in which you use to not only draw potential buyers or partners to your social networking profile, but also keep them coming back and interested in your business opportunity or products.

First and foremost, do not use a cut-throat tactic to seduce customers on-line. They will definitely pick up on your cunning tactics in Internet marketing, but it will not work and ultimately be the demise of your business.

Let’s get down to it. You find the perfect social network and are ready to market yourself. That is exactly it, market yourself! Setting up your profile is extremely important and efficient in social marketing. It is the very first step after opening a new account. Make sure that you upload a picture or a company logo in your avatar, because it is important to expose your presence. I highly recommend that you use a picture of yourself, but it is up to you.

After that you want to get more and more acquaintances in your aim to take over Internet marketing. Now you wouldn’t walk up to someone and throw them a business card, would you? I didn’t think so. That is the same as going from profile to profile with spam. Spam is defined as any text that is unwanted and more so that of an advertisement of an opportunity that is consecutively distributed to numerous people. You are going to want to get known by marketing yourself! Yes, yourself! Not your opportunity. That is the secret!

I recommend going through the site and get familiar with other members. Say hello and introduce yourself. If they are remotely interested in you (and most likely they wouldn’t be if you didn’t upload a picture earlier) they will visit your profile. When they arrive at your profile, they will see that you have everything about you and your business opportunity. That is like introducing yourself and handing them a business card per say.

Once you make new friends, open a group about your business. Offer to send samples. When you comment on the pages, do not, I repeat, do not advertise your business. In some social networking sites, you may even get banned for spamming. Beware that they can see your private messages as they can do that in the admin area. Plain and simple, Internet marketing guru’s market them self, not their business.

Now you have made some new friends and you are really mingling in the site. Most sites are free but some have monthly fee. Then there are some where you can earn revenue through participation and/or ad generated revenue, all the while you are marketing yourself.

There are places where you can even give presentations. This is a major plus for the business, because you have already made a name for yourself by marketing your presence within the community. If your main focus is to market yourself first people will gain confidence in you. Then they are more apt to join your opportunity or buy from your store. Due to the newly built trust they have in you.

Trust is hard earned in Internet marketing. Social networking can be a great way to market your business and then again, it can be the opposite. Doing it right, I will assure you, can be a great way to earn money in the comfort of your own home. They estimate that one in every two homes will earn their sole income from home, by the year 2010. There is no better time to learn to become a successful Internet marketer, then now. Internet marketing through social networking is taking the world by storm.



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WorldEconomicForum asked:

The Impact of Web 2.0 and Emerging Social Network Models
The rapid rise of online social networks is both a social and business phenomenon, the impact of which is only beginning to be understood. The consumer-powered Web 2.0 creates innovative ways for businesses to operate and people to communicate.
1) What is driving the emergence of virtual communities? Is the rapid rise in their valuations justified?
2) How are companies beginning to use social networking strategies for product and market development, as well as for communication?
Caterina Fake, Founder, Flickr, USA
William H. Gates III, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Chad Hurley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, YouTube, USA
Mark G. Parker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nike, USA
Viviane Reding, Commissioner, Information Society and Media, European Commission, Brussels
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Dennis Kneale, Managing Editor, Forbes Magazine, USA
Moderated by
Peter Schwartz, Chairman, Global Business Network, USA

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