Monday, December 7, 2009

Facing Recession With SEO

By Michael T Cain

The world is currently going through one of the biggest economic crises, and this has led everyone looking for new techniques to market their businesses, and attract a strong customer base. This continuing crisis is making all the business owners think that what will be the best marketing strategy that will keep them ahead of the other companies.

With the advancements in internet use, it is fast becoming the premium mode of advertising for all kinds of businesses. More people today prefer finding about different products, and services to the internet, as it is fast and convenient. It is for this reason only that all major companies have their personal websites with all the details on their products, and the company itself.

To expand an organisation, you have to find more customers that would be interesting in buying whatever the organisation is offering. For this, you will have to devise a marketing plan that promotes the products to more people. This can easily be done through internet, and many organisations are taking advantage of this facility, particularly the ones that are somehow related with technology.

The website of a company should provide information about the company and the products is important, but another important step is to direct traffic to this website. Consumers all over the world are looking for products through search engines like Google, and Yahoo, and the list goes on. What the company is concerned about is that whenever a potential customer searches for something similar to their product, the search engine should show the link of their website among the top results.

According to a research, most people only view the first one or two pages of the search results, and try to look for their solution in these first 10 or 20 results. Therefore, only those links have a chance of receiving hits, which are listed in the first or second page of the search results. With the growing need of companies to use methodologies to increase their websites visibility to search engines, a specialised field has been formed called Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

SEO means that you are using specific kinds of methods to increase the visibility of a particular website, so that it is listed among the first few results for a related search. This helps increase the chances of this website getting this by a vast number of potential customers, and ultimately increasing business for this website.

Now if the product is being rated higher by every search engine, the potential customers would get a feeling that it holds the solution to their needs, and this will result in them being convinced enough to become actual customers. This is the best way to get rid of recession. Sales have been decreasing all over the world, and SEO can help organisations reverse the situation, and get back on their feet.

Surely, brute advertising is also a considerable option for many companies, and conventional methods can be used to attract more, and more customers; however, the benefit of SEO is that this way an organisation is able to expand its borders, and explore new horizons by extending boundaries to global markets rather than just the local markets.

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