
Search Engine Marketing (S.E.M.)
The best website in the world is WORTHLESS, if no one can find it.
SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING (S.E.M.) (S.E.M.) uses ALL the techniques to get you more traffic from search engines!
Search Engine Marketing (S.E.M.) is a combination of all the techniques used (including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising to get your web site ranked better by the search engines when someone searches for your particular keyword phrases.Search Engine Marketing (S.E.M.) Does NOT Mean More Profit!
Search Engine Marketing (S.E.M.) is the overall term for building more traffic through search engines toward your web site. More traffic theoretically means more business*, which (theoretically) means more revenue** and more profit. *We use the word "theoretically" because you can get a huge amount of incoming traffic from the search engines, but if your site is not well designed or easy to use, the new visitors will just go away without doing what you want them to do. So while you received more traffic, it does not guarantee more business, unless your site is well designed.OurMarketingGroup.com offers your medium sized business the ability to have part-time, in-house marketing services that can help you get more results from your web, marketing, and advertising efforts, while allowing you to focus on your core business. We can assist you achieve in four levels of the sales & marketing process.
- Increasing your traffic, getting more customers
- Converting more shoppers/viewers into sales
- Increasing sales from existing customers
- General marketing tools & services
Increasing Your Traffic
- Search Engine Optimization - content optimizing, alt tagging, rewriting content for SEO, submitting site to search engines. Our Marketing Group can fine tune your web site to improve your rankings in the search engines which translates into more traffic which can become more sales
- Pay Per Click Bidding Keywords & Strategy - strategy analysis, review & revision. Finding the right combination of keyword phrases that most effectively maximizing your budget and draw more traffic.
- Pay-Per-Click Ad Development - developing intriguing and qualifying ads to both draw in more traffic, yet eliminate unqualified clicks, saving your money.
- Smart Email Broadcasts - professional template design, managing content/linkages, formatting content, monitoring results. Designed to draw more of your customers into the site and location, informative and interesting so they don't cancel you, spam you, or ignore your emails.
- Blog/Newsletter – design, development & updates. Matching branding of site & emails to blow/newsletter and matching content for consistency in messaging, information, specials and offers. Linking directly to products for easier sales.
- Social Media - intelligent use of new media such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others can generate additional trafffic to your site
- Print Ads & Collateral - brand consistent traditional marketing designs (such as postcards, brochures etc.) that match your online branding at a fraction of the cost of traditional ad agenciesBack to top of page>>>
Converting More Viewers into Sales
- More Exciting Designs - Keeping the look and feel of your web site's pages professional and exciting encourages viewers to buy
- Results Driven Content - Creative copy writing can help excite a viewer into action and increase your rankings with the search engines
- Linked Landing Pages - Pay Per Click ads, optimized rankings, and email broadcasts need to be linked to landing pages that immediately take the prospect to what they want to find and allows them to buy as soon and as easily as possible.
- Updated Specials & Content - Keeping you web site fresh and active indicates a thriving business and constantly provides new reasons for return visits and specials
- Product & Accent Photos - image optimization (for faster downloads) & placement on product and informational pages. Viewers can't touch or be close to products on the web so they need to be able to see them and get to know as much as possible. The more photographs you have of products, the more comfortable they are with buying. Also photos help break up boring text with energy and visual flair.
- Photography – if necessary, shooting digital photos of products, or locating affordable stock photos
Increasing Sales & Profitability from Existing Customers
- Email Broadcasts - professional looking and well crafted email broadcasts are a cost effective way to draw existing customers back to your location more often.
- Feature Upsell Products - It is easier and cheaper to increase a current sale than to generate a new one. Increase your profitability by allowing us to help upsell high margin items during current sales.
- Marketing Consulting - Our Marketing Group can bring 25 years of marketing and Internet experience to you business to help brainstorm with you new ideas to make you more money.
- Follow-Up Process & Tracking - a good CRM (Customer Relationship management program is invaluable. By tracking your sales and customer data, you know where you are weak and where you are making the most profit allowing you concentrate on those areas.Back to top of page>>>
General Marketing Tools & Services
- Electronic Media - design and development for presentations such as PowerPoint’s, Flash, PDF’s
- Marketing Consulting – brainstorming with 25 years of advertising & internet marketing experience
- Point of Contact – advertising sales calls can be deferred and forwarded to “Our Marketing Group”, acting as a barrier between you and advertising sales calls.Back to top of page>>>
Metheney Consulting and Our Marketing Group offer a variety of online marketing services:
Search Engine Optimization vs. Pay Per Click ads
Search Engine Optimizing has a lower long term cost than Pay Per Click advertising (PPC), but is also slower to take affect and you have less control and no guarantees as to where you will rank in the S.E.R.P.s (Search Engine Result Pages). Essentially, you are fine-tuning your web site and praying for the best results. Pay Per Click advertising (PPC)gives you greater control over when and for what keywords your ads (results) will display, but costs you every time someone clicks on them. You can stop your ads on Pay Per Click advertising (PPC)immediately by just clicking pause. Your Pay Per Click advertising (PPC)also begins immediately as soon as you activate them and you have some control as to where in the PPC rankings your ads will appear. If you are doing well in the organic rankings (Search Engine Optimizing or SEO), you do not necessarily have to put ads (spend money) in the same keywords in your Pay Per Click advertising (PPC). You should not rely on just Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) or Pay Per Click advertising (PPC) to take care of all of your Search Engine Marketing (S.E.M.) needs. They are just a couple of pieces in your marketing tool kit.![]() |
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