Most organisations now appreciate the need for some Online Marketing for their business and lots of them have finally decided that online marketing is going to account for the whole of their marketing budget – so definite are they that it is the most effective use of their money. This, in the main, is a good decision but care must be taken to pick the right online marketing plan for the organisation in order to get the most out of the spend.
Two of the most widespread processes that regularly individually make up a strategy are pay per click advertising and search engine optimization, both regularly used on their own, rarely in conjunction with each other. This is a pity as the ideal scenario would be a blend of the two, in a very strict regime.
The main reason for this ideal is the cost of pay per click advertising and the length of time involved in search engine optimization. If you take a fairly popular set of keywords they will firstly cost you a lot per individual pay per click charges and there will be a lot of them; then the Search Engine Placement side of things will take a while to attain, something as long as 4 months dependent on the competition. So you can see that any business using online marketing as it’s sole source of promotion would want to see the effects a lot sooner than 4 months and it also will not want to indefinitely pay out hundreds of pounds per week for the pay per click leads. However a blend of the two works perfectly.
Initiate your process with pay per click, it gives you an direct response (within a week if the keyword is reasonably popular) and you can check out your website, your keywords and your snippet. Any alterations that you think may advance your sales rate can be tested out and you will receive an almost immediate response. It really does perfect your site and make sure everything is running effortlessly ready for the optimization to take over. Why stop using pay per click then? The straightforward answer is expense. If you have a competitive keyword it will cost you perhaps more than £1 per click and as a competitive one there will be a lot of clicks, it is not difficult to spend hundreds per week on just one keyword.
Contrast that to the cost of using a Website Optimization Company and you can see straight away the difference in outlay. At just £10-£15 per key word per week, and not taking into account how many customers that brings you the difference can be staggering. Of course you need to make sure that you are paying for a appropriate keyword but if you have followed this information and tested it out with pay per click you will have no doubts.
As soon as you have got everything sorted, picked and tested get the optimization side of things started and keep the pay per click alive until it starts to show results. That way you can keep the sales coming in at a higher cost only until the optimization takes over – then the cost fall away significantly.