SEO and Search Engine Marketing STILL Rules OK! So do you Google?

Posted by admin - 09/06/10 at 04:06 am

Yeah I know! People are yelling from the roof tops, “Social Media Marketing is now the way to go”! “SEO and SEM are Dead”! “Social and Web 2.0 sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter RULE OK”!

Well yes they are right. Social Media and Web 2.0 are very important if not crucial to succeeding with your online in business. But if you think, well I don’t need to worry about SEO/SEM. Then your are very wrong… Did you know that:

87% of all visitors come from a page 1 position on Google, Bing, “Formally MSN” and Yahoo Search! Yep that’s right.

91% of Internet users still use search engines! “Are you sure that’s a lot Anthony”!

More than 250 million searches carried out daily in the US & UK alone!

73% of all online transactions start with search engines! So you maybe only getting 27% of your target market? Oops this isn’t looking too good!

Just do some keyword research using Google’s Keyword Tool and see for yourself, how many people are using Google alone.

It kind of makes you wonder whether you are missing a lot of targeted traffic and money! Yes SEO and SEM are still very important. Don’t let anyone else tell you differently. If they do then they are full of it…

You should be combining both Social Media Marketing, Web 2.0 with the Search Engines. Why because the Google’s, Yahoo’s and MSN’s of this world have already realised the importance of Social Media and Web 2.0. So much that they now rank user pages and content from these types of websites.

So maybe you should start learning some basic SEO/SEM optimization techniques for both your websites, blogs and social profiles and posts! Sounds like a good idea to me….