Sunday, February 21, 2010

SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING

SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING(SEM), as the name indicates is the process of marketing for a website so as to rank it higher in the search result. When anyone wants to search for an item in a particular websie, he types a key word related to his search. This way, a list of many similar sites is displayed in the search result related to the key word. According to human general tendency, he cilcks on the site which is shown on the top. This way that site gains more popularity. Since online traffic is ever on a rise in this internet- savvy world, competitions among various websites is also gaining momentum.
This entire process more or less operates on the very popular "DARWINIAN theory of the survival of the fittest". The site which keeps itself higher than others in the rank list will obviously gain in terms of customers while the others would become obsolete and finally would disappear. So the need of the time is to keep yourself above others in this race. In order to beat their respective competitors, each website strives to make their website the most popular. At this juncture, the SEO companinies come to their aid and services.
An SEO company makes the search result easier for the relevant keywords by improving the website in terms of structure and contents so that it becomes easier for the visitor to understand the contents of the site and his search is made easier.This makes a website more resourceful and popular. For this an SEO company has to first carry out research on the basic principles, terms and conditions of the website. Then accordingly it designs the site and add the content to highlight the role and purposes of that particular website. This is necessary because only the real features of a website can be 'highlighted' but not 'boosted'. So taking note of the right words and right time to enhance the web presence of a site is what an SEO company is supposed to do.

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