Put Some Personality Into Your SEO

Search engine optimization is all about creating targeted streams of inbound traffic coming to your website on a daily basis. A dull SEO campaign really doesn’t help anybody. The user who might bump into that piece of marketing won’t find it useful and the search engines just get cluttered with more material that just gets [...]

Search engine optimization is all about creating targeted streams of inbound traffic coming to your website on a daily basis. A dull SEO campaign really doesn’t help anybody. The user who might bump into that piece of marketing won’t find it useful and the search engines just get cluttered with more material that just gets in the way of things. With the search engines evolving and changing it is important for your efforts to really have some sort of personality applied to them.

Let’s take a look at some of the areas you can give your online marketing efforts a kick start to get people wanting to click on your website:

Online PR: Instead of just sending out a press release to get more links why not trying to send it out to get great links and fantastic press. If you send out dull pr you might notice that there are some blogs that pick up anything just to build content. That is not going to help you or your business. If you want a major online publication to pick up your pr topic you will have to give that pr topic a bit more flavor. Try announcing a new client that might be larger than normal if they allow for their name to be used. Maybe you have formed some sort of partnership that is worthy of a headline. This is more likely to get picked up and receive better links than just announcing a new section of a website launching. Put some personality into the pr and it will go much further.


Social Media:
Instead of just launching a Twitter or Facebook page and dropping links to your blog posts take a different approach. If you can get your community conversing with you your social efforts will go much further just helping your SEO efforts in the process. SEO is much more than just creating rankings, it is about building your business online so it requires more than just placing links here and there. Ask questions in your community. If you have followers in your Twitter account people will respond you just need to give them a reason to do so. Ask relevant industry questions to get some conversations started.

Video Marketing: Video marketing is a great way to really spread your presence online but you have to do it the right way. If you have the budget buy a decent camera, a tripod and some editing software. Take the time and make some good solid promotional videos to help you spread the word online. If you make it right people will pick up your video and blog about it. This action will give you nice strong links pointing to your website. Always shoot for making your video viral.

Putting some personality into your marketing will allow things to go much further online for your business than if you didn’t. People don’t respond to just links, they respond to marketing so go and brand yourself as a real business online.

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SEO ROI Jumps Around Like a Kangaroo

If you are trying to calculate your ROI on performing SEO for your business you are going to be greatly disappointed. Search engine optimization ROI can be measured over time through an increase of visitors, and conversions (sales, leads, phone calls, etc.). But since SEO is such a long term effort that never really [...]

If you are trying to calculate your ROI on performing SEO for your business you are going to be greatly disappointed. Search engine optimization ROI can be measured over time through an increase of visitors, and conversions (sales, leads, phone calls, etc.). But since SEO is such a long term effort that never really has a finish line and preliminary conversion numbers are virtually impossible to accurately predict over time. The only thing you can really do is improve. Improve, positioning, quality of content, call to actions, incoming relevant links, improve your authority and improve your ROI over time.

It is important to know that search engine optimization is not paid advertising so nobody knows when your website will appear in search results and where it will appear. It’s not like some paid advertising models where you know your ad will appear in a certain spot immediately and how many people visit that location on average. In this scenario you can sort of predict how many visitors might make it to your website. With SEO you cannot put this value on it. Your website takes time to climb and you can’t predict how many other bloggers and writers might begin to write about your business from your SEO efforts ultimately creating new streams of visitors that lead to conversions. Search engine optimization is a combination of proactive marketing and some technical aspects.

How can you put an ROI metric on distributing an article or press release surrounding your business? To many business owners I speak with they try to put an ROI value before they pull the trigger to move forward with search engine optimization which can be challenging. Some decide to not even pursue it because of not being able to identify a value or number on proceeding with the effort. This is the worst thing you can do for your online business. If you launch a Twitter account and begin a conversation and 6 months down the road someone from that conversation decides to become a client how can you predict that occurrence?

Depending on what type of industry you might be in your SEO could take quite a while to really kick in depending on how saturated and competitive your space might be. If you decide to not perform any SEO on your website you are already shooting yourself in the foot. Creating many pathways to your website from a variety of sources is one of the most important ways to build your online business. This process takes time so it is important to start it as soon as possible.

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