Search Engine Marketing
Search engine marketing (SEM) is the process of gaining traffic
and visibility from different search engines
through paid and unpaid methods.
It also helps to improve website or
webpage ranking. Search engine marketing is a form
of internet marketing that involves the
promotion of websites by increasing their visibility on search engine result
pages through paid advertising. SEM may
incorporate search engine optimization (SEO) which adjusts or rewrites
website content to achieve
higher ranking in search engine result pages and thus enhances the pay-per-click (PPC) listing.
The largest search engine marketing vendors are Google, Bing and Yahoo. Although the basics of pay-per-click
advertising are simple, managing a successful paid search account can be
anything but. Many advertisers simply cannot devote the time and effort
required to stay abreast of developments to their platform and many are missing valuable opportunities to grow their business through
PPC. As of 2006, SEM was growing much faster than
traditional advertising
and even other channels of online marketing. Managing search campaigns is
either done directly with a SEM vendor or through an SEM-tool provider. It
may also be self-serve or through an advertising agency.
As the number of sites on the Web
increased in the mid-to-late 1990s, search
engines started appearing to help people find information quickly. Search
engines developed business models to finance their services, such as pay
per click programs offered by Open Text in 1996 and then Goto.com in 1998. Goto.com later changed its name to Overture in 2001, was purchased by Yahoo!
in 2003, and now offers paid search opportunities for advertisers through
Yahoo! Search Marketing. Google also began to offer advertisements on search
results pages in 2000 through the Google Ad Words program. By 2007,
pay-per-click programs proved to be primary moneymakers for search
engines. In a market dominated by Google, in 2009 Yahoo! and Microsoft
announced the intention to forge an alliance. The Yahoo! & Microsoft Search
Alliance eventually received approval from regulators in the US and Europe in
February.
Searchengine optimization consultants expanded their offerings to help businesses
learn about and use the advertising opportunities offered by search engines,
and new agencies focusing primarily upon marketing and advertising through search
engines emerged. The term Search Engine Marketing was proposed in 2001 to cover the spectrum of
activities involved in performing SEO, managing paid listings at the search engines,
submitting sites to directories, and developing online marketing strategies for
businesses, organizations, and individuals.
There are different methods used by search engine
optimization such as Keyword search.Keyword search and analysis involves three steps: a.) ensuring the site can be indexed in the search engines,
b.) finding the most relevant and popular keywords for the site and its products,
and c.) using those keywords on the site in a way that will generate and convert
traffic. A follow-on effect of keyword analysis and research is the search
perception impact. Search perception impact describes the identified
impact of a brand's search results on consumer perception, including title and
meta tags, site indexing, and keyword focus. As online searching is often the
first step for potential consumers/customers, the search perception impact
shapes the brand impression for each individual.
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