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Friday, 12 March 2010
Search engine marketing has been around since the mid 1990s when more and more web sites were introduced and the search engines became the primary method of finding them. As these search engines grew, they also began to develop business models such as pay per click programs to finance their services. A good search engine marketing company can handle pay per click campaigns for their clients, and also increase rankings for their web site in the organic listings. A truly cutting edge search engine marketing firm will also be able to provide new services like online reputation management, social media, behavioral retargeting and more.

 


Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a term that industry pioneer Danny Sullivan coined some years ago. This term refers to a wide variety of activities that are geared towards increasing visibility in the search engines and converting web site visitors into revenues. A trustworthy search engine marketing company will also be able to do all these things affordably. Things like managing paid listings at the submitting sites to directories and developing online marketing strategies for businesses, organizations and individuals are all part of this spectrum of activities.


A search engine marketing firm in the United States will probably focus a great deal of its efforts on Google, which has a global presence and is the front runner in search engines. They should also do a lot of work with Yahoo!, which is known worldwide and runs in close competition to Google. Microsoft Live Search, or the new Bing, is also renowned globally although it is most well known in the United States. Ask.com is another globally used and accepted search engine.


Out of about 200 million Internet users in the United States alone, more than 80 percent use search engines to find products or services, and about 75 percent of these users dont go further than the first page of results. Working with a search engine marketing company can ensure that you are in these top results.

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