To understand SEO, we need to understand Digital Marketing and SEO’s place within it. Digital marketing is a direct assault against traditional marketing channels like print and TV.
While Amazon soared, Sears and Toys R Us fell. While YouTube and Google ascended, newspapers and magazines withered.
Adapt or die because people love their Internet, and digital marketing is how we monetize it. Don’t underestimate the importance of digital marketing.
People will find your website before they find your store, before they meet you, and before they purchase from you.
Without a single storefront, Amazon has become the 7th largest retail store. It has the largest market capitalization of any retail store, including Wal-Mart… and it is just warming up.
Major digital marketing channels include search marketing, social media, display advertising, and email marketing. Combined, digital marketing budgets exceeded TV ad spending in 2017. Of these digital marketing channels, the search engines are the primary driver of business generation.
- Search engines produce about 200 billion searches per month.
- There are over 236 million people in the USA that will be search engine users in 2019.
- 66% of marketing professionals say that growing their organic presence is their top online marketing priority.
- Over 72% of people seeking a local store on their mobile phones will visit the store.
- Social media actually generates only 3% of the traffic on average to a website. When you add it all up, search engines generate the lion’s share of online-based sales, while leading to on-site visitations as well.
Search engines are the king of digital marketing sales.
Search engine marketing comes in two varieties, sponsored search (PPC) and organic search (SEO). When executed properly, SEO tends to yield the best ROI, due to the expensive and competitive nature of PPC.
Search-based web traffic is second only to a referral. Search engines display your website to a person seeking the products/services you sell at the very moment they are interested. Investing in SEO is a common-sense marketing strategy.
Over 72% of people seeking a local store on their mobile phones will visit the store.
Any SEO effort must be viewed as a long-term approach. Websites don’t go from #1000 to #1 overnight. You must build trust with the search engines, and that takes time. Ongoing SEO is necessary because search engines are always evolving.
We SEO differently today than we did three years ago. This is serious stuff and your business is on the line. Are you going to give up on SEO quickly after knowing that it is one of the most important, and possibly THE most important, marketing influencer?
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