Back to the July 2005 issue.

Search Engine Marketing is a Must

(by Peter Bohenek, President)

Your company website is complete…all the time and money that was spent to get the design and messaging perfectly formulated and implemented is finally over. Now it’s time for your new top marketing vehicle to perform. Just like gas is to a racecar, traffic is to a website - a newly built performance racecar is not going to win any races without fuel. Your website will not drive any sales without people coming and interacting with it.

Implementing a well planned search engine optimization program is the proverbial gas in your website engine. By targeting strategically selected keywords, large numbers of web viewers will be driven to your company website. More importantly than just large numbers, a large percentage of these viewers will be qualified prospects who will be interested in your company’s offering.

This is precisely the reason that search engines and marketing through them is so important…Search engines fuel the Internet. They connect consumers with your company at the very moment of consumer interest. This is paramount in making your website perform, and it has to do with one word: Positioning.

Positioning is an absolutely critical component of search engine marketing. If you are not positioned to be where your customer is when your customer is ready to buy, you lose. Your competitor who is in that place at that time wins.

The first purpose of search engine optimization is to be positioned in the space your customer is looking. The second purpose is to be positioned higher and more visibly than your competition. In the world of search engines, better means higher, and higher means a much greater probability that an individual will click on your link. While this figure varies by engine, 70% of users will click on one of the first three listings in a search engine.

In a survey by Jupiter Media, 42% of respondents cited search engine listings as the most common way they search for products and vendors online. As you can see, it is crucial to be positioned well in the search engines.

Rhythm Interactive offers a specialized service which will get your company’s website in the top positions of the major search engines of the Internet. We carefully select keywords that will drive qualified prospects to your website, and we will implement conversion tools to make sure traffic equates to sales. Our job is to help your company achieve its growth goals and to do so, search engine optimization is an absolute must!

Please contact us today to learn more about Rhythm Interactive’s search engine programs.





Statistics Corner

Search marketing is expected to grow to a $9 billion industry by 2009.

56% of Internet users do not know the difference between paid search and natural search results.

Online searches for the terms “real estate bubble” and “housing bubble” climbed to a 12-month high for the week ending May 28th.

Google’s stock recently broke the $300 per share mark.

79% of online shoppers surveyed said email order verification was very important.

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