SEM: The New Black!
I loved whenever my girlfriend tells me that her brown shoes are the new black! or her pink lingerie being the new and sexier black. Today, There are lot of things that has dominated over the popular and conventional ideas on their own respected genres. On the business side, Online Marketing has been a diversified way of increasing a Company's sales and popularity that is why a lot of the leading companies today jumped over to this new way of popularizing their company and products.
SEM or Search Engine Marketing is the process of Internet Marketing which seeks to promote a website and their products/services through increased visibility on SERPS(search Engine Result Page. It could be through the form of paid placement, contextual advertising and paid inclusion. Search Engine Marketing is a very viable alternative to traditional marketing strategies and can relatively decrease your budget for your advertising campaign.
SEM is basically divided in to two broad areas. The first area is gaining traffic through free SEO efforts and the second one is gaining traffic through paid search advertising.
1. Gaining Traffic through SEO Efforts
This area of SEM is composed of different processes or techniques to increase the visibility of your website on search engine result page. It includes pre SEO Analysis, Keyword research and analysis, benchmarking and Analysis of competitor websites, Architecture and content optimization, submission to directories and Search Engines, link building and maintenance and continuous improvements. SEO can be done with thorough knowledge of the process or can be passed on to professionals or companies who offers such service.
2. Gaining Traffic through Paid Search Advertising
You can choose from PPC(pay per click) advertising or CPM(cost per thousand impressions) advertising based on what you think is more appropriate for your business. Search engine ads are usually in a pay per click model. People on a tight budget prefer this way of search engine advertising because they only pay whenever an internet user clicks on the advertisement. The cost per-thousand impression is not a bit different but unlike on ppc, you will have to pay whenever the advertisement loads in the screen of an internet user.
Just think of how many people on earth uses the internet every minute of the day. SEM services get your business more visible over the internet giving you the chance to promote to your potential clients. It kicks off your traditional way of promoting your business. It maybe is not the black but it is "The New Black!"