This is the question we get asked the most by our clients. The answer is not an easy one. Over 1 million new website addresses are registered every month, which is over 40,000 per day! So how do consumers find their way through all these sites? Search engines! You've probably heard of the major search engines used in the business like Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Millions of us use them every day to find everything from the latest news to buying their shopping. Even if you don't use them that often, these statistics illustrate just how vital it is for your site to be listed in them.
Listings on their own though are not enough, particularly in such a competitive market. These days your business also needs to achieve a high Google ranking to benefit from the considerable amount of traffic they can send to your site. You've probably wondered at some point why some sites appears at the top of the rankings and some never seem to get close. This is because the majority of sites are not search engine friendly. Organic search marketing is an effective strategy that results in competitive ranking of your site which can lead to an increased amount of targeted traffic.
Optimising the content on your site can be tricky – you need to strike a balance between quality and quantity. If you say too much about the wrong, or even the right thing, then just like human visitors Google will judge your page less relevant for that topic. If you say too little then you don't give your users a reason to get interested or go further into the buying cycle. Search engines are constantly refining how they rank websites and are placing a greater importance on meaningful and well written websites that are search engine friendly. Savvy internet marketers like those at WSI are winning with words, so you can too. Call us today so we can help you optimise the content on your site and make you more popular on Google!
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| Total UK online sales reached £58.8bn by the end of 2010 - an
18% increase on 2009. It is predicted that this total will reach
£69bn by the end of 2011. Source: IMRG as cited by Marketingmagazine.co.uk, January 2011 |
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| 83% of UK online shoppers use search engines to research a
purchase. Source: RichRelevance and Bazaarvoice as cited by eMarketer, November 2010 |
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| In the UK, £1 in every £4 of total ad spend goes online Source: IAB '10 Years of Advertising' 2010 as cited by comScore, November 2010 |
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| Over 2/3 of UK consumers ages 14 and older—roughly 26 million
people—bought goods, travel or other services online at least
once per month in 2010. Source: eMarketer, November 2010 |
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| 70% of UK households (ie: at least one person in the
household) use the internet for buying goods/services Source: Ofcom, August 2010 |