A Review Of The Reasons Why Search Engine Advertising Is Being Used As A Replacement For Conventional Advertising

Traditional advertising consists of adverts in such areas as: newspapers and magazines, on television, letter drops to homes, billboards and hoardings in open spaces, on the outside of busses and vans, on parking tickets, and or course Yellow Pages.

These can be dear to produce and then update as business changes require, and so the increasing use of the internet and specific company web sites has brought about another way that is a more sustainable option for a firm to market its products or services.

A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that Online spend grew 4.6% to £1.752bn in the first 1/2 of 2009, while TV spend dropped by 16.1% to just over 1 ½ billion. They then go on to catagorize the following kinds as online advertising; E-mail promotions, classified adverts, display ads and search marketing.

This confirms that some organizations are recognising some of the benefits of online advertising, perhaps on a cost outlay basis or perhaps because it can be easier to track the success of online advertising, e.g. by the number of site hits or email replies.

Most newspapers also have web sites where they can showcase news items and sites such as CNN and the BBC can show latest news from an assortment of sources. The use of RSS feeds for news can send this directly to a person’s mobile phone that is web enabled. The knock-on effect here is that sales of newspapers have dropped and so fewer people are seeing printed adverts therefore their value to the advertiser is reduced.

Those organisations who use Online Marketing as part of their business policy and want to have their web site optimised for search engine usage will want to be sure that the proportion of their marketing budget spent on this is bringing in business. So they will need to be sure that the search engine ranking for their web site will be on page one of the organic results of an engine like Google when a user enters pertinent keyword(s) in the search.

In order to make this a long-term part of the businesses sales volume it is vital that they use an ethical Search Engine Optimisation company for the work, otherwise they may not get the results they want. Or worse still, may get a good Search Engine Placement in the short term but then find themselves banned by the search engine company for using unethical or Black Hat techniques.

There are lots of ethical Search Engine Optimisation companies who can provide this service all are staffed by a teams of ethical associates who have improved the web sites of many clients so that their search engine placement in on page one long term. They will not guarantee to get a client onto the first slot as this is not always achievable depending on the competition.


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