Thursday, July 31, 2008

Directing Desired Visitors to Your Website

By Ricardo d Argence


The purpose of Internet marketing is to get people to visit your website. There are several ways to get people interested in visiting your website. All the techniques the Internet marketers will use at some point involve the search engines. No matter what it is you're looking for, if you use a search engine, as countless people have found out, you'll get your answer.

Having a site that indexes high in search engines gives the feeling like having money in the bank. SEM, search engine marketing, is at the very heart of generating quality traffic to your site. When you have enough knowledge to insert the popular keywords in the search engines, you will yield a high result on the search engine results pages, also known as the SERPs, then you know you are advertising the correct way.

What do you do if you have the greatest website on the entire web for pet supplies? Your website's address is your URL. Google, along with the many indexing spiders that it employs, will soon index your pet supply website.

You need to remember that when you're typing your "keywords" in Google search, you will not find your site on the first page. Over 68,000,000 returns pop up if you simply type in "pet supplies" on Google. This is the reason for SEM is so important. If you want people to find you, you need exposure.

SEM will include SEO, which is search engine optimization, search engine submissions, search engine maps, local search methods, PPC (Pay-Per-Click) along with other search tools and keywords. The concept of PPC advertising is one of the most efficient ways to effectively market your site in modern search engines.

This is easy to do when you join a PPC advertising company, just make up a short advertisement with your choice of keywords that will attract customers in your market. When someone does a search for a keyword that you have chosen, your ad will appear along side of the search results.

If you used a good keyword, it will generally show up on the first page. When the search engine user sees you ad and clicks on it, they end up on your website. You pay the PPC company for each click when someone clicks on your ad. This method is a very popular way of generating traffic.

SEO should always be used on your website. SEO is a standard the search engines use to index and rank your website. The better the SEO, the higher in rank your website will show up in search engine results. Optimizing your site has to do with using keywords sprinkled naturally throughout your text. Keeping your website relevant to what your site is about is also taken into consideration. Google loves people that use forward links to other relevant pages within the text too.

One should not keyword stuff when using SEO. If your keywords are used out of context or over saturated, it will cost you in rank. You can find more detailed information about SEO for free online.

When using search engine marketing, there will be things you need to take into consideration. The generation of page hits is most times related to the web page placement on the most commonly used search engines, such as Google or Yahoo. If you want search engine exposure, you will learn to use SEO in almost everything you wish to market. For a fee, there are many companies that will do your search engine advertising for you.

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