Make Your Search Engine Marketing Work For You | Search Engine Marketing

By DerekGehl
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People ask me which search engine marketing strategy they should concentrate on, free or paid. I tell them it's like a sandwich: it just doesn't work with only one slice of bread!

For increased traffic and sales combine the power of organic (free) and pay-per-click search engine marketing. Together, they will help you reach your goals of more traffic and sales in both the short AND long term.

The trick is to use both strategies so they build on each other.

Step 1. Do your keyword research and then build a content-rich web site around keywords your target market is searching on.

Step 2. Now pile on some pay-per-click advertising, with each ad built on a single keyword. Use PPC to bring more visitors to your site and measure your sales per visitor, called your sales conversion rate. Your PPC campaign will quickly show you which keywords bring in the most visitors, which result in the most sales and which ones are duds.

Step 3. Take thekeywords that are performing the best for you from your PPC campaign and edit your website to include those keywords. By emphasizing them in your content and code, you'll start ranking well for those keywords in the organic (free) listings (the regular listings that come up when someone uses a search engine).

You can even build landing pages when you find a group of top-performing keywords that relate to one another. You can build a page around the keywords that contains specific information about that keyword group that would appeal to searchers who are searching those keywords.

PPC will bring first time visitors to your website for the answers to their search queries. By finding out what works in PPC, you can edit the keywords on your site to get a higher search engine ranking; over time this will build up free traffic.

And here's a bonus! If you can get both your PPC ads and your organic listings on the same page of the search results, you'll have a search engine marketing strategy that's far greater than the sum of its parts.

SEO and PPC, with a delicious keyword filling it's a search sandwich!

About the Author

CEO of Internet Marketing Center, Derek Gehl educates Internet business owners on how to create incomes of up to $2.5 MILLION or more per year online. Now you can discover the proven Internet Marketing and search engine marketing strategies Derek uses to Quickly & Easily make money online!

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