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Search Engine Optimizing Marketing 

What is SEO Marketing?
SEO marketing and SEO promotion are terms which are sometimes not easily understood. So, let's examine these terms to clarify these concepts of SEO.

Marketing and promotion generally refers to implementing activities and communications which reach your target market for the purpose of informing and educating about your products or services. Marketing and promotion generally has two goals: 1) to create awareness and differentiation, 2) to create a desire to acquire your product or service.

Now, let's examine two other concepts: Push and Pull marketing.

Push marketing refers to proactive marketing strategies that "push" your message out to your target audience. Direct mail is a common form of push marketing as is telemarketing (yes telemarketing is a form of marketing). Some forms of advertising are push in nature such as radio and television. Pull marketing refers to capturing the attention of those may be looking for you in various ways. Retail store merchandising is a well known form of pull marketing.

The ultimate in pull marketing has become search engine optimization, aka SEO optimization, SEO marketing. The SEO concept is simple. The Internet has become the most popular platform for "lookers" - prospective buyers - to look for suppliers of products and services. By taking steps to be found through SEO optimization strategies, your company can be found by prospective buyers searching out your products and services.

SEO Promotion Requires Know-How
Here is how SEO promotion generally works. First, if you don't have the SEO promotion know-how in your company, don't try to do SEO optimization yourself because you will probably get limited or no results. Consider outsourcing SEO marketing to a qualified SEO professional.

An SEO professional will work with you to identify the most practical keywords people use when searching for your products/services. An SEO professional will work with you to implement professional SEO optimization plan which is intended to improve your rankings in search engines and to generate sales leads.

SEO promotion is not just about high rankings in search engines. If your SEO optimization plan is not well designed, you may get good rankings but you may not convert rankings to sales opportunities, and that is the overall objective!

An effective SEO marketing strategy will consider the many ways people search for your products and services and will implement SEO promotion tactics which maximize your chance of "pulling" in those people looking for your products and services as well as similar products and services. For example, if you develop and sell accounting software specialized for resellers and dealers, our SEO marketing plan would include "pull" strategies which may include 'software for dealers,' 'software for VARs,' etc. The idea is not to limit the search criteria to 'accounting software' because in fact our research may indicate that people search with and without such a description.

Professional SEO Promotion
SEO promotion requires some psychology in order to consider the ways your prospect searches. The key is not to limit your thinking to just the specifics of your products. Remember that your prospect deals with many issues. If your prospect is the chief finance officer in a business, consider other related topics of interest to this role. Sometimes, the SEO optimization plan also needs to consider the use of competitive keywords. If you provide specialty management consulting services, but not management training services, the SEO marketing strategy may include 'management training' just to "pull" the people searching on this phrase by offering them an alternative to 'training' through 'consulting' services. This is not a stretch at all and is often a very effective SEO optimization tactic.

When we design SEO optimization plans for our clients we guide you in this thinking. We'll brainstorm with you to consider SEO promotion ideas around the ways your prospects behave. As SEO professionals, we're trained to bring out ideas from you which will help us to design SEO marketing and SEO optimization plans which will "pull" in people who are looking for your products and services.

Contact Find and Convert to begin your SEO optimization and marketing plan.





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