Wednesday, April 05, 2006

SEO as an ingredient of your online marketing stratagem

As an entrepreneur and a webmaster your marketing goals should be clear cut. Knowing your marketing goals and target audience helps you to determine the prospects of the sales and how successful your business will be. However there are still some ignorant webmasters who start up an online business without researching their markets, target audience or having a proper marketing plan. The traditional marketing theory lays emphasis on delivering the right product at the right price and make it available in the right place. Unlike traditional marketing theory, an online market effort lays stress on building your brand name. Whether your brand is your product or your service your goal should be to build trust and credibility. Once trust and credibility are established you can easily surpass the diligent efforts of your competitors. Sometimes it is only the trust that your brand conveys is the only thing that differentiates you from your competitors.
Analyze your site, your services or products from your visitor’s perspective. If you will be cynical of your web site you will be able to discern your efforts. Now mull over the aspect whether it gives you a sense of credibility? And do not ever forget that if you have gained a high listing and a good ranking your business will become credibility. By this I don’t mean that SEO doesn’t have any standing. SEO only aims at giving you a quality exposure in the search engines. Here visibility by any means is not synonymous to sales. If you want something to relate with sales then it would be a highly-empowered marketing campaign. The goal of marketing is to make sales.
In the domain of Internet marketing it is not unusual to lose sight. And out of sight is always out of mind. The search Engines are compressed with many distractions (search engine rankings, site traffic, hits, etc) that can be a real nightmare for the webmasters. SEO can be looked upon on as publicity for your company. And if you are reluctant to spend a big fortune, getting listed in organic search should be a part of your marketing strategy where your focus should be on making customers. Let your value be driven by sales and value be determined by the superiority of your brand. If you introduce an important and exclusive brand value then your customers will remember it & return to buy your products. Try to lead the cat race by providing perceived value, excellent customer service, experience, professionalism and website impression. You can dominate a specific area of proficiency which will establish your unique brand value. Avoid building a site that speaks highly of you and looks like a brochure for your company. It should be made in special interest of the users with informational content focusing on the company or its products.

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