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The vast majority of all search engine referrals,
across the web as a whole, come from the organic or non-sponsored
listings. Search engine optimisation is the only means of improving
your performance in those important 'natural' search results.
SEO has no associated cost-per-click overhead.
The more traffic your SEO effort delivers the greater the ROI. Search
engine optimisation is the most cost-efficient means to target the
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the practice,
strategy, and techniques of optimising the benefits that search
engines can offer to your business.
SEO is about knowing how, when, and why your potential
customers, suppliers, and important contacts will use the search
engines to find information about products and services you offer,
or even about your company itself. It is about ensuring that you
present yourself well and effectively from the start - from the search
results.
Search engine optimisation requires greater initial
commitment than PPC search marketing. SEO is akin to building and
owning your search presence, as opposed to the rental arrangement
of PPC. However, SEO still works best as part of a broader search
marketing campaign.
Refer
to our full range of SEM services to learn more about holistic search
marketing campaigns.
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SEO Delivers More Visitors
Search engine optimisation can efficiently deliver
more traffic (visitors) to your website. It does this in several
ways that paid search cannot.
Firstly, since there is no per-click overhead
to SEO we can afford to attract somewhat less tightly pre-qualified
visitors. We can afford to attract a wider range of potential customers,
even at a lower conversion rate, without any detriment to profitability
at all.
Secondly, there is no reason why you cannot attempt
to compete on search terms that would be too expensive for your
profit margins in paid search. No matter how many clicks you
get, you don't run out of budget and lose visibility. Instead, the
more clicks you get, the lower the effective cost per click of your
SEO campaign investment becomes.
Thirdly, SEO allows you to target the
'long tail' of search in ways that are impossible through PPC
advertising. Google reports that half of all searches made use five
words or more as their search phrase. A huge majority of searches
in any given day are uniquely phrased. SEO uses all the words on
your pages for your visibility, not just the two or three most common
words alone.
Fourthly, much of SEO is simply putting the right
knowledge and procedures in place. Once that is done, there is no
real additional SEO cost to competing for more keywords and phrases.
In fact, your SEO campaign gets more efficient as you increase the
number of phrases that you appear for. All you need do to increase
your keywords is to create content that uses those words - no other
cost.
There are more reasons why search engine optimisation
is the most cost effective and efficient form of search engine marketing
for driving traffic. Why not contact us to discuss them?
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The SEO team...
Versatile Capabilities of SEO
Search Engine Optimisation can be used effectively
to achieve a wide variety of objectives.
SEO can effectively be used to:
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