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The SEO process looks the same, for the most part, for any website owner. Small businesses and large businesses have the same goal–to improve their search engine presence in order to generate more visitors to the site. The process begins with industry and keyword research, then on site optimization, and then ongoing link building. Because enterprise organizations have more resources than smaller companies, it would seem as if an enterprise SEO campaign would be more successful. This isn’t always the case, especially since enterprise organizations often make mistakes that smaller companies do not. Here are 3 common mistakes that large corporations make during an SEO campaign.
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One of the first steps of an SEO campaign is keyword research. The keywords lay the groundwork for the campaign and influence every decision that is made thereafter. Two of the most important things to pay attention to when conducting keyword research are the relevancy of the keyword and its search volume. For most website owners that are just getting started with SEO, it’s not advisable to after the high search volume keywords right away, even though those are the ones that appear to be the most attractive to target. A high search volume also means high competition and it could take years to begin to see any traction. The best bet is to focus on keywords that are somewhere in the middle, the ones that have search volume but aren’t as broad or competitive. These keywords are often referred to as long tail keywords because they include more than one word in the phrase.
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Last month, I wrote about 2 challenges to keyword collaboration. Among other things, I argued for the importance of developing a corporate keyword database for digital marketers. Without keyword collaboration, your digital assets will compete for the limited time and attention of your audience. Chances are, a relatively small set of words are both relevant to your product offerings and your client’s needs. In large organizations, like mine at IBM, multiple sales and marketing organizations will chose the same words as the basis of their assets, unwittingly competing against each other for space in Google’s search engine results and diluting their search effectiveness.The solution to this problem is a centralized keyword discovery system, which helps companies learn, manage and govern the keywords most strategic to their business. Read the remainder of this entry »

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I used to think our book, Audience, Relevance and Search was the only book that emphasized basing your whole marketing and communications enterprise upon keyword data. That was until I read the second edition of Vanessa Fox’s Marketing in the Age of Google. Ms. Fox, who ran Google Webmaster Central before becoming an independent author and speaker, emphasizes using keyword data in every phase of the marketing, advertising, and communications lifecycle. Read the remainder of this entry »

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An entire SEO campaign is based on the keywords that are chosen since they should be incorporated into every piece of content that is published as part of an online marketing campaign. Incorporating keywords naturally into the actual website content in order to improve rankings is really only one small part of the overall strategy. These selected keywords are also used within blog posts, articles, press releases, blog comments, online profiles, and social media posts which are created to build relevant inbound links and generate traffic to the site. Keywords are the foundation of an SEO and online marketing campaign and they need to be relevant and attainable. If the selected keywords aren’t completely relevant or are too broad and very competitive, it will be difficult to generate traffic from target audience members that are the most likely to convert.
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