Is marketing an internet site really worth the cost?
There are relative costs attached to Online Marketing and companies often balk at spending on the service when it gets to the end of a lengthy process which has already made them spend a considerable chunk of their marketing budget.
The fee of a graphic designer for the artwork and then a web designer for the structure can often cost into the thousands of pounds depending on the intricacy of the website. Then there is added to that the cost to the organization of personnel taking time to collate the site with the two experts, and then to populate it with all the data about the products or services on offer. At the end of this process most businesses hope that all bases have been dealt with, staff can at last get back to their normal job and the sales or enquiries should start flowing in.
Alas. The likelihood of you having a product so rare that it has hardly any internet competitors is small, the competitor websites are recognized and know to the search engines. They have usually been optimized themselves as the businesses have arrived in your position at some earlier point in time and have taken on board valuable lessons. It therefore really would be a waste of time, funds and effort to go to the trouble of getting this far and then simply sitting back.
Your site will still probably be nearly invisible to new customers looking on the net as it will appear so far down the Search Engine Placement rankings that no searching customer will ever reach your page. The internet sites that take 95% of seaching customers are the ones that appear on page 1 of the search engine ranking list and these sites accomplish it because they have gone on to the final stage of Website Optimization.
By using a SEO Company to provide Search Engine Marketing services they should ensure that your well thought out, planned and relatively costly website is actually accessed by people other than your existing customers. Try to choose an organization who will charge you only on delivery of page one ranking results as these are the only ones that are useful to your site. Some organizations can claim seemingly extraordinary improvements to your Search Engine Placement, possibly from a ranking of page 68 originally to a vastly improved page 15 ranking. This unfortunately is still nearly useless, think about the last time you searched through to page 5, especially if you got what you were looking for on page one!
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Posted November 10, 2009
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