Monday, June 1, 2009

Search Engine Marketing Or SEM And It's Purpose

By Darren Bradley

Search engine marketing or SEM is all about driving traffic to your site. When you want to get people to come into your brick and mortar store you would put it in a good location, a place where everyone either drives by naturally or people gather for whatever reason. With the internet, your store front is your site, and it works completely the other way around. Traffic finds you not because of your location, but because your listed in the search engines.

Search engines scan every page on the web, every day, and rank sites based on an algorthm which is constantly changing. SEM or search engine marketers generally test several things out to figure out what works, what gives a site favorability in search rankings, and basically what puts a website above another in the search results. These marketers are very active in learning what works, testing over and over again, and typically apply everything they learn to their clients sites.

The best way to get your site on the map with search engines is to hire an SEM company to help you with both on and off page SEO (search engine optimization). Utilizing several tricks from how the sites are built to building natural and abundant back links (search engines call this link popularity) over time. With an SEM company taking care of the heavy lifting, you are free to build your business, or even generate another site to promote! Typically people outsource this service at first and after a while learn how everything works and start doing it themselves, but this is only people who enjoy the work. Many experts hire SEM companies to do the heavy lifting and to maintain their site and off page SEO concepts.

SEM companies can be likened to a rental property management company. The investor builds or buys the house and the management company takes care of your property so your free to do other things. Online the marketing is often the part you want to outsource to companies that do nothing but SEM/SEO and that are always ahead of the curve. Your investment is often replenished/recouped by sales made from the traffic they bring you by preparing your site and building back-links for you.

If your site is designed simply to send affiliate traffic to a site you make a commission on the sale (meaning you have no back end responsibilities, your sites job is simply to direct traffic and collect a commission on sales) then hiring a SEM company to do your marketing is not only a good idea for leveraging your time and a good investment of your money, but it is the best way to generate a profit. As a webmaster of an affilate network or your own product site, you should put your valuable time into building the sites or niche markets and leave the marketing to the experts who charge a nominal fee but their services drive tremendous traffic to your site which ends up paying for itself and a profit for you!

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