Friday, 19 September 2008

Internet Marketing - the devil is in the detail

With Internet marketing attention to detail is everything



When you are marketing your website online, you really have to pay attention to the impact of everything that you change or update on your website and not only check whether the changes deliver more/ better search engine results. You must also ensure that changes aren't going to have any impact upon your conversions as well. The lesson is that even seemingly innocuous changes can have an affect which can be both positive or negative.



One example is a recent addition of snapshot testimonials to our website scattered across some of the major pages. These testimonials provide a great snap shot of some of our major services such as search engine optimisation and software training, and some of them started to appear in the SERPs as well.



Thus far, the exercise was an ostensible success. Especially when in some of our SEO search engine results the string: "SEO testimonial: You're a bloody genius" was appearing. However, for some software training searches this testimonial was also finding its way into the results; not something we want, since this phrasing might be suitable for our SEO customers, but it is less likely to attract software training customers. In order to rectifiy the situation we needed to change the order of our testimonials so that a different and more appropriate SEO testimonial was adjacent to this particular software training testimoinial. Doing this, all a prospect should now see in the SERPS is the software training testimonial and the tail end of something which reads much more on message for our software training customer base.



This all sounds very dry and finnicky, but sometimes you really need to be sensitive to what people are searching for and how they will respond to the text that appears in the search engine results in order to preserve your conversion rates and so improve your performance simultaneously.

13 comments:

Tanner (SEO practices) said...

I don't know if I completely agree, I mean, not ALL details are important in internet marketing. For example javascript effects and background images, they're important for viewers, yeah, but not for search engines.

chris said...

Well, yeah I suppose that sort of goes without saying, some things do fall outside the scope of SEO - however, using external JS helps separate the wheat from the chaff and saves the bots a bit of work scrolling through code they don't need to, and where images are concerned, it's always wise to consider whether its worth getting them indexed on Google Images before making them background images.

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Buytiffany said...

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Outsourcing said...

Content have more importance then the other things. Images makes it look better but if they are not relevant to the content they count as zero SEO value. search engine pays more importance on linking, good content and originality of the site.

Chris said...

Yep, inbound links, rich content and unique content are the mainstay, but without paying attention to the fine details, you're not maximising your potential

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christian audigier said...

Search engine pays more importance on linking, good content and originality of the site.

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