Category Archives: SEO

4 reasons why your business needs to be first on Google

7 Sep 09

Are you mystified about search engine optimisation? Do you wonder whether professional search engine optimisation is really important? Do you think merely having a website is enough?

Consider this:

  • 97% of people begin their online search for a product or service using a search engine. (source: Tourism NSW)
  • Google accounts for 90.45% of all searches in Australia according to Hitwise Online research.

So……. if most people in Australia spend more time online than with any other media, use search engines for research, massively favour Google as that search engine, then click through to the first result……..how much is first place in Google search results worth to your business?

Probably a lot more than you think. In fact, achieving first place for relevant Google searches might be the most profitable thing you could do for your business in 2009.

Combined with a professional Inbound Marketing strategy it could change the way you do business.

Three Best Ways to Convert Web Traffic Into Sales

6 Sep 09

Source: RAYMUND FLANDEZ, online.wsj.com

These days, the tech-savvy small business is using search engine optimization to steer customers to its home page. But once those online visitors land, how do you get them to buy? Sure, you can pay a lot for site analytics that give you insights into those potential customers’ shopping habits. But small-business owners now have a variety of simple yet effective tools to tempt visitors into opening their wallets.

Here are the three best ways to convert Web traffic into sales:

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How much is first place in search worth?

28 Aug 09

Usain Bolt won the 100m sprint at the last Olympics. Who came second?

Michael Phelps came first 8 times in the pool at the last Olympics. Do you remember 2nd and 3rd places in any of those races?

Now, who do you think is raking in all the sponsorship dollars and appearance fees? Bolt and Phelps or the guys they beat? Trust me, the bulk of the money (like 90%) is going straight to the winners while the lunch money is being shared amongst the rest.

Online search is exactly the same. First place wins BIG, the rest pick up the crumbs. It doesn’t matter how many different survey results you look at, the numbers are always similar:

Position 1 = 42.4% of clicks-through

Position 2 = 11.8%

Position 3 = 8.4%

Position 4 = 6.2%

Position 5 = 4.9%

Position 6 = 4.1%

Position 7 = 3.4%

Position 8 = 3.1

Position 9 = 2.7%

Position 10 = 2.9%

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