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[E249]Engine Placement Ppc Search

by Bob Schwartz, Bob

Google, the acknowledged leading search engine, isn't looking so much at word density with its ranking algorithm, as at what other sites are linking to your firm's site. Google relies primarily on link popularity for ranking pages. They assign a PageRank to each site they index with 10 being the highest. The vast majority of quality sites rank at least four or above. Google isn't breaking away from words-on-the-page -- it never started there.

The logic is that pages other people think are valuable resources will often get linked by other webmasters, while pages that are of low quality or do not contain any information at all, will not gain many links. Thus, the Top10 places will be filled with sites people regard as useful. It does make sense and it adds another way for SE's to rate your website with minimal effort. Virtually all Webmasters these days are aware of the fact that exchanging linkbacks with other sites is an excellent method for building traffic.

The problem is that this change might make it even more difficult for small and new sites to make it to the top and it favors big, high-traffic mega sites. There is a software program that can greatly help in you getting the links that you desire. It does all this automatically.

More links are not better unless all of them are high-quality links. Numbers aren't as important as context and relevancy. It is better to have a few links from sites that are similar in content and topic to yours, a few links from the portals, and a few links from site reviewers, than to have 1,000 links on Free For All (FFA) links pages. Actually, in practice, non-themed links can actually lower a site's search engine placement. This is especially true when lazy webmasters join link swapping plans in hopes of having ‘instant' mega, in-coming links. These services are designed to immediately boost your link popularity. The way they work is simple: Each member of a link-share program places a machine-generated page on his site and links to that page from his front page. The machine-generated page has links to all other sites participating in the program. Each member submits his machine-generated page to all search engines, and the result is that each member has a link to his site from everyone else.

These programs have produced some positive effects in years past, but many search engines now regard them as spam and often ban sites that they find participating in these programs. Don't even try them, even if you are really desperate. Here is what Google has to say about this practice: “Avoid SEOs that talk about the power of "free-for-all" links, link popularity schemes, or submitting your site to thousands of search engines. These are typically useless exercises that do not affect your ranking in the results of the major search engines. At least, not in a way you would likely consider to be positive”.

Quality incoming links are critical to improved rankings and therefore, increased business. With a good linking program in place, your site will soon reap the true potential the Internet offers.

If you feel like you are spinning your wheels with the same poor quality leads from your lead generation service, you're not alone. In the past few years we've heard from more and more of our clients that the quality leads they used to get from their lead gen services are becoming worse and worse. More people are shifting their budgets to pay per click search where the quality remains strong.

Many lead gen firms use pay per click (PPC) search to attract their leads. Once they have a lead, they will ship it out to a variety of vendors, charging each the same fee. If you are seeing your leads get more saturated, it might be time for you to go right to the source instead of letting the middle men do that for you.

Unfortunately, PPC search isn't quite as easy as it used to be. These days you have a lot of competition and it's getting increasingly sophisticated. Sure, you can set up a simple web site with contact info and point some ads at it. You'll probably get a trickle of leads. But if you want to really increase your business and lower your cost per lead or cost per acquisition, you will most likely need to dedicate some resources to it.

When you launch a paid search campaign, you need to realize that everything in your pipeline, from what keywords to appear on, what ads to run, where to send them, how to get them to take action, etc. -- all of that can be managed and optimized. Let's examine two of these areas.

The first place to begin is with your pay per click ad copy. It's fairly easy to place an ad and launch it. However, the pay per click engines are putting more emphasis than ever on "Quality" algorithms. If you are unable to make the daily effort to test your ad copy, you are going to fall behind those that do. A good PPC management company will run daily split tests for their clients. This is who you are up against more and more these days -- experts who double and triple the click through rates of their clients' ads.

Why is this important? Because it doubles or triples your traffic -- and in turn doubles or triples your leads.

But as I mentioned, everything in your pipeline can be optimized. Let's take a look at where you are sending these people who click on ads. Do you have a contact form or just an email address? Is your phone number visible or in your footer? Are you offering an incentive for people to take action? There's a lot to tweak and test.

If you can optimize your landing pages over time, you can now take that traffic and double or triple your lead conversions. We've seen it time and time again. So, put in the effort, it is worth the time.

Making the jump to PPC search may not be in your company's core competency. If not, then outsource to a PPC management company. Their experts can mine massive keyword lists, pull keywords from your competitors, conduct the necessary and vital daily split tests, and give you insight into better landing pages.

So, consider getting rid of the saturated lead gen services and heading for the source. The results can be dramatic.

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