search engine optimization

Advertising you can afford.

The point of advertising.

The point of all advertising is to develop a compelling message about your company and its products and services, and to place this message in front of your prospective buyers.

Ideally, you want to deliver your message to those who are truly in the market for the goods and services you provide. These are qualified prospects.

The high cost of advertising.

If you have purchased any advertising, you know that the expenses associated with developing a compelling message (creative costs), and the price of placing this message before qualified prospects (media costs), can be enormous.

For Example:

  1. The average cost of producing a 30-second television commercial for use in a local market is between $15,000 and $30,000. The average for a national spot now exceeds $300,000.
  2. The high cost of running a single 30-second TV commercial on a prime time network program in a single local market can be as high as $20,000.
  3. The cost of placing a half-page newspaper ad, in a typical large daily circulation newspaper, will run as much as $20,000.
  4. Yellow page display ad prices vary based on several factors, but by way of example, a half-page ad in the main Cincinnati directory will cost you $24,924 per year. In the main Calgary directory, $9,871 per year. In the main San Francisco directory, $22,596 per year.

The point is simply this: advertising generally is very expensive, and results never are guaranteed. Much depends on the creative talent, and even more depends on adequately identifying and reaching qualified prospects.

The wonder of your web site on the Internet.

Your web site becomes your ad. Of course, it needs to be well designed, and it must tell your prospects everything they want to know about your products and services. At its best, it will provide compelling reasons for an Internet user to purchase your products or services, and do it now! If the web site message is compelling, the sales and profit potential is great.

The question is "how will anyone find your ad (web site)?". If you think you can succeed in getting large numbers of people to remember your web site address, thing again. Major e-commerce companies have invested millions in an attempt to "brand" their respective web site domains in people's minds; many of them are now bankrupt.

In order to be seen, you must find ways to make many people aware of your web site address, and you must find a way to have your web site appear prominently when a search engine user does keyword searches to find products, services or businesses like yours.

Those who engage in keyword searches are "qualified" prospective customers. They are declaring their interest in the business or industry associated with these important selected keywords. Being seen by these qualified potential customers—all over the world—is the wonder of the Internet.

How can your web site become one of the few that shows up prominently when a qualified customer uses one of the major search engines? You can hire us to optimize your web site for top search engine rankings and placement. That's all we do, and, frankly, no one does it better. It also is remarkably affordable.

The cost to optimize your web site very likely will be less than the cost of developing and running a single ad on TV, radio, newspaper, yellow pages, or any other communications medium you might select. The potential benefits from increased exposure, not to mention additional sales, are huge.

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Search engine optimization can bring great benefits to your business.

Simply having a web site—even a very well designed one— is just not enough. Most web site designers do not provide search engine ranking services. Even among the best designers, web site promotion and web site optimization remain an elusive discipline.

We encourage you to learn how search engine optimization can benefit your business.