Archive for June, 2009

Can Your Online Customers Find You?

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Clients and consumers finding your website online can be the determining factor of your business’s failure or success. Increasing your website’s position on search engines is key, but maintaining your budget can be just as important. When searching for affordable SEO firms you need to be certain you are not sacrificing quality while looking for the best price. Cheap SEO can be a waste of time and money as you may get results, but not the results you need to climb the search engines. Be wary of SEO services that promise instant results. SEO strategies take many months for changes and improvements to be recognized and found by the search engines. At Netmark Essentials, our focus is in providing affordable SEO solutions while meeting your business needs to increase your traffic and search engine status. We analyze your website and research the best keywords and phrases that will increase your web rankings in areas that people are actually searching in. Our link building strategies include relevancy and the latest link building techniques, including social media.

It is important to choose an SEO company that wants your success as well as their own, so when you shop SEO firms look for diverse, quality services that will give you one on one attention and keep to your budget goals.

Search Engine Marketing Firm

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

When it comes to Search Engine Marketing, it can be a headache trying to decide which company you should choose, and with the level of trust to provide access to your websites and pretty much you whole online reputation. Most companies have invested a large amount of money and time building up credibility and branding, and choosing a Search Engine Marketing Firm that not only provides great results, but that understands your goals and is professional enough to treat your hard-earned brand with skill and care as if it was their own.

Netmark Essentials is that Search Engine Marketing Firm who provides an exceptional level of Search Engine Marketing Services. Our flexible array of customizable services has allowed us to work with very large corporations such as Experian and Bluworld, and down to local businesses who are the future eBay’s and Overstock.com’s. Netmark Essentials understands that we are only successful when you are successful, and we take that very seriously.

Our Search Engine Marketing Services cover many areas, including but not limited to:

  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Pay-Per-Click Marketing and Management
  • Comparison Shopping Feed Management
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Website Design
  • SEO Web Design
  • Landing Page Conversion Optimization
  • Viral Marketing
  • Online Marketing Consulting

So when the opportunity is appropriate for your business to look into alternatives to your existing Search Engine Marketing efforts, feel free to contact us. We are passionate about what we do, and enjoy assisting businesses and individuals in becoming more successful in their online marketing opportunities. Our company motto is actually: “We are business men first, and geeks second. We know how business works, and we have your best interest in mind!”

Pay Per Click vs. Organic Results

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Learning to drive a stick shift was a bit of a challenge for me at first, I kept popping the clutch, and squealing tires only to come to an abrupt stop as I stalled the engine. I must admit, I didn””t look cool in my multi colored Chevy sprint, bouncing down the road (not because of Hydrolics), in fact I don””t look cool now (in my Hyundai Elantra station wagon), but unlike when I was 17, I can beat all those kids with the “cool cars” off the line every time, simply because I know how to use my resources to there full. So what does this diatribe into my past have to do with PPC, and Organic Results? Driving a stick shift, you learn that there is a fine balance between using the clutch and the gas. It can be best visualized as a teeter totter, when one goes down, the other goes up. In this case, however we have full control over PPC (imagine it as your gas pedal), and only sliding control over organic results (imagine it as your clutch). A new business can benefit incredibly from a well run PPC Campaign, but the moment that PPC Campaign stops, the business can come to an abrupt stop, unless there has been good organic search traffic building during that time. Now I am not saying that PPC Campaigns, can””t be run indefinitely, however, in the long term, most business will see more benefit from good Search Engine Optimization, as they use PPC, as an immediate boost.

This is where PPC Management comes into play. With PPC you are paying for every single click, every single visitor has a direct cost to you, and while this cost can be managed, it should also be capitalized on. There are some simple strategies that anyone can implement, like making sure that your keywords are relevant, and pertain to your business, setting a monthly budget, or choosing products to feature but there are also more advanced methods, like keyword budget management, placement strategies (is it critical to be number one), conversion tracking, and landing page optimization. PPC Management, isn””t rocket science, but like, learning to drive a car, it takes time, patience and practice. Many businesses don””t have the time, patience or practice to just jump into an effective campaign, and so hiring a company with the experience and know-how can be a great boost to their bottom line. Just like my 90 horse power (if even that) Hyundai Elantra wagon, beating some punk kid and his brand new Mustang off the line, experience can make all the difference in PPC Management.

Achieving top Rankings – Number one in Google

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

top of google search results

Many new web site owners wonder how they will attract visitors to their newly designed web site. Achieving top rankings is not something that is usually included with their thoughts. Getting number one in Google, or at least the first 10 listings within Google”’’s search engine results should be their main focus, but usually isn””t. That”’’s were we come into play; we love to optimize web sites, new or old, to rank number on in Google and achieve top rankings in the three major search engines; Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

There are many ways, both advanced and basic, to create, design, and deploy a web site so it will naturally do well within the search engine results. Achieving top ranks in the three major search engines is not an over night ordeal. Once the ground work has been completed, such as:

Proper Meta tag use

Keep the title and description focusing on the specific page”’’s topic. Do not add fluff or keyword stuffing as this will get you into trouble. Try to sum up the <title> tags in 5-7 words.

Image Optimization

Name the images within a page to describe the content. Use proper alt tags and title tags for the images. Adding text before and after an image, that support the image description, will help the image rank within Google”’’s image search, or the new Google Universal Search results.

Content / On-page Text (Content is King!)

Need we say more? Keep the focus of a single page on target. Make sure not to branch out into many different directions. Once you””ve said everything about the topic at hand, move on to another page and branch out from there.

Links, both Inbound and Outbound

Search engines know where your pages link to, and who links to your page. A good internal and external linking structure, and plan, will work to your advantage. Keep the anchor text focused, use variations of anchor text, and you””ll be off to a good start.

There can be 50, even 100 more elements involved with getting top rankings in the search engines, but the above listed are the core elements that every page has to incorporate to get to the prized “number one in Google” position.

Every Page has it”’’s Own Story

SEO web design companies like Netmark focus on modifying (or creating from scratch) a web site using the various techniques listed above. We design landing pages, modify existing web pages, optimize images, and more with a single focus in mind; every page has it”’’s own story. The old saying “content is king” holds true with this philosophy. Every page”’’s text / content should reflect a single “theme” or topic, not broad enough to where the page is going into deep levels of explanation about various topic. If you””re a Star Wars fan, you””ll remember the quote “stay on target, stay on target”. Nothing could be more true when designing a web page to your road to getting number one in Google.