Archive for August, 2009

What’s SEO content?

Posted by seo in on August 27, 2009

So, what’s SEO Content? Let’s get right to it. Over the last several years, search engines continue to change their algorithms so they can provide the most relevant content to the end user searching. Search marketing firms have had all types of tactics to get better results in the search engines for organic results or natural listings. Some have worked well and others have failed. Some have in a way tricked search engines to rank pages higher in the search engines. This is referred to black hat SEO. White hat SEO is following all the criteria for search engines.

Today, most SEO campaigns consist of SEO content. Let’s say you are targeting 40 keywords. You must have relevant content pages on your site that relate to these target keywords. These pages will not always be your general website pages such as about, FAQ, or contact. If your optimizing a site for vintage cars, for example, than you would need to have content that is relevant to this topic. You might have an articles section on your site that touches on your 40 keywords.

Now, it’s important not go overboard on the times you mention your target keywords on these SEO content pages. In some cases this can actually hurt your results in the search engines. When SEO first started being done for websites you could just take your keyword and mention it hundreds of times on a page and that page would come up high in the rankings. That is not the case today.

So, what if you’re not a writer? You can hire a freelance writer and assign them your SEO content or you can hire a company to write these articles for you. We at emarketed offer this service.  Prices can range from $75 to $200 a page. Remember though that these do not have to be your main pages on your site and can be kept out of view for the most part if your concerned about that. The goal of these pages is to get found for your target words which will drive you traffic to your website. Once someone has gotten to your site they will be able to click through to your main pages if they’re interested in what you have to offer.

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Making the Decision to use Broad Match

Posted by seo in paid search, search engine optimization on August 3, 2009

According to Google, about twenty percent of the queries that they receive on a given day, have not been viewed in the last three months. Some can avoid being part of this undesirable group by using broad match to help improve quality score. Quality score is determined by many variables including: historical performance of your account, landing page quality, and historical click-through-rates of your keywords. First, when you use broad match with Google Adwords, it automatically generates a list of relevant variations of your keywords. Here are some things to consider before using broad match for your campaign:

Benefits of using Broad Match

  • Save time. Instead of spending time building lists or by testing via trial and error, broad match covers all different variations of your keywords.
  • Save money. If an ad isn’t doing as well based on a certain variation of a keyword, the broad match system will automatically stop the ads and search for other variations.
  • Utilize data for trends that you might not see otherwise. Using broad match gives you traffic trends and results from trying different variations of keywords.
  • Help attract more web traffic to gain clicks and conversions.

Broad Match isn’t Right for You

  • An ad campaign for a brand conscious company may not want to stray away from their strict control of keywords; this means giving up clicks in order to maintain the brand.
  • If you are on a limited budget and already spending all your funds on your keyword advertising campaign, broad match may not work for you.
  • If rearranging the order of your keywords will cause a different meaning, broad match may bring you untargeted traffic.

Overall, broad match can help you be successful in getting more clicks. When properly managed, it can be cost effective and help you gain consumer insight about your products and services.

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