What Every AFFILIATE MARKETER Must Read About SEOPosted by Groth Terp on April 28th, 2021 Additional hints may be the first article in a series of articles I'm doing on SEO. So let's start from the beginning and clarify the term"SEO" and what it is SEO stands for "SEO " Ok! But what does that truly mean? It's a traffic strategy so you can get higher search rankings for the website on GOOGLE, YAHOO, MSN, etc. for certain popular keywords that people are looking for. So what are the great things about SEO? You get FREE targeted traffic to your site from Google, Yahoo, Msn and other search engines out there. Once you get your website ranked on the various search engines for a specific keyword you're targeting, the FREE traffic is ongoing this means: The traffic keep coming in.......The leads keep coming in.......The customers keep to arrive........You continue to create your downline. There are literally huge amount of money in potential traffic available. There is absolutely no risk! SEO is Free, you do not pay for the listing compared to PPC (PPC or Google AdWords). So Additional hints don't ever get into dept doing it, the one thing you risk is your time. This is a essential aspect for a number of people trying to get a business going on the Internet. Just to get this straight, with SEO You get your listings on the Natural serp's which on Google are left compared to PPC (The sponsored links) which are on the proper. Now there's one thing that's very important to comprehend about SEO which is, generally speaking people tend to trust the natural serp's (on the left) compared to PPC because it says, "Sponsored links". A company called eyetools.com have been tracing peoples eye movements when they search on Google and they found that the majority of the attention is on the left side and what that means is that at the top 1-2 positions there is 3-4 times the traffic that's going there than on PPC. Given that doesn't mean PPC is not any good, it's great and you could get great results from PPC, but the potential of getting increased traffic from the natural searches are much higher. So let's have a look on SEO vs. AdWords (PPC) Pay Per Click: Costs money $$$$$: --content--.3 to per click Ongoing maintenance: You have to keep up with what's happening on Google so you do not get slapped,You should keep learning and growing to make PPC a successful strategy. High competition: Others can knock you off #1 simply by paying more and you also lose that traffic. Benefits: Instant traffic within quarter-hour, Forces you to optimize for conversions because every click costs money. SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) Rank for high value keywords The difference between quality value and high traffic keywords is that there are a lot of keywords that may give you a lot of traffic but not necessarily enable you to get any money. SEO efforts focus on keywords that converts to money, leads and distributors for the business Problematic for others to overtake your position. They can't buy their way up there, they have to do the task and the cool thing about SEO is it's not obvious how to get your website ranked up there, so once you've figured it out your competition then have to learn everything you spent so much time learning and in many cases they need to do SEO better that you because you have a lead start on them. SEO is passive ongoing traffic Once you get those rankings you merely sit back and concentrate on other aspects of your marketing funnel. Generally more traffic than PPC I hope that you with this article now understand what SEO is, the huge benefits and how it differs from PPC.Like it? Share it! More by this author |