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The Internet is the fastest growing means of marketing today, and is one of the most effective and cheapest of marketing tools. Advertising via a Website is exponentially less expensive than traditional methods of offline marketing. These days a Website is virtually a necessity for the small business. More than 80% of Internet users use Search Engines to find the products or services they want to buy. And they have over 100 million active Web sites in the World Wide Web to choose from. Internet marketing is now a priority for businesses. A company's Website will often be looked at before business is completed. It has a powerful impact on the confidence of a potential customer. Good design, well-written copy, helpful product and contact information – all increase trust in the company. With the advent of ASP.Net and Visual Basic.Net, the expense of creating a dynamic Website has dramatically fallen. Highly functional Websites that could only be built and supported by very large companies, can now created with relative ease and at low cost.
About 85% of Website traffic comes through Search Engines. But having a Website is of little value, if it cannot be found amongst the millions of competing Websites. And if the Website is not on the first 3 pages, most people will not find it.
SEO will increase the number of visitors to a Website from the Search Engines. To ensure selection, SEO uses researched copywriting and optimal coding of the Web pages. The objective is to get on the first few pages of the organic Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), as well as increase page conversion rates. Conversion rates depend upon how well the visitors are targeted.
A good Search Engine Optimisation strategy includes:
Having a good Search Engine placement is only the first objective. The good SERP Ranking must also result in increased Website traffic. And the more targeted the traffic, the more visits will be converted into sales.
Here is a list of the most commonly used buzzwords:
For a more complete list of SEO Terms and Terminology, see the Glossary of SEO Terms.