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SEO Case Study: Attorneys Chasing Vioxx Organic Search Ranking

Last week the drug manufacturer Merck pulled their pain relief medication Vioxx (rofecoxib) from the market due to studies linking higher incidence of heart attacks and strokes to long term use of their medication. The highly profitable medicine was aimed at Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferers and others who weren’t able to stomach aspirin, which is arguably more effective than Vioxx is for most pain relief.

Why High Ranking Does Not = Traffic/Sales

Gaining top positions within search engines is no guarantee of traffic increases. Even if traffic does increase, there are still no assurances this traffic will convert into paying customers. These very issues are what a couple of posters at WebProWorld recently faced. Each has decent-to-top SERP rankings but they have little to show for it, business and traffic-wise.

Ranking Well In Non-US Searches

Yes, we supposedly work on the World Wide Web, but localization and micromarketing (a term I learned from a Stuart Elliot column describing a marketing pitch by Sharper Image to one area of Soho in New York) increasingly segment and complicate results, especially across foreign search portals. So here are some suggestions – from the Search Engine Watch forums – for reaching potential clients who live in countries other than yours.

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