SEO Guide Part 5 – What is SEO?

Why take the time and trouble over SEO?

Because a search engine is the most effective tool that can bring a prospective customer to your company’s website. Particularly  if you work with Google and Yahoo.

Millions of web visits are initiated daily through one or the other search engine to locate information or sources of products, usually for the best price possible.

Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, and the AOL search community are considered to be the most effective and targeted channels for you as a website owner to acquire a hot lead without breaking the bank.

Businesses all the over the world spend a huge sum on designing, building, maintaining and promoting their websites. There is more competition in certain hot marketing areas, and everyone wants a slice of the niche market they are in, no matter how large or small.

A niche market is a highly focused, targetted market—not just cars, but Honda Civic Hybrid cars. The more specific your niche, the more likely that yes, the pool of traffic will be smaller, but they will be closer to making a purchasing decision.

So if you are an affiliate or car salesman, or a person selling accessories for the Honda Hybrid car, you are much more likely to make money and not throw away time and effort trying to get to the top of the SERPs with the word cars.

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Author: jm

Joan Mullally has been doing business online for more than 20 years and is a pioneer in the fields of online publishing, marketing, and ecommerce. She is the author of more than 200 guides and courses designed to help beginner and intermediate marketers make the most of the opportunities the Internet offers for running a successful business. A student and later teacher trainee of Frank McCourt’s, she has always appreciated the power of the word, and has used her knowledge for successful SEO and PPC campaigns, and powerful marketing copy. One computer science class at NYU was enough to spark her fascination with all things digital. In her spare time, she works with adult literacy, animal fostering and rescue, and teaching computer skills to women.