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Monitoring Your Search Engine Positions – Five Tips

Increasing numbers of companies are recognizing the importance of high search engine rankings as part of their overall marketing strategy. Unfortunately, many do not recognize that search engine marketing is an ongoing process, rather than a one-time “quick fix”. Protecting high rankings, once attained, is critical to the ongoing success of any search engine marketing initiative. It is also important to approach your monitoring efforts with a solid strategy and a proper mindset. The following five tips can help.

Let Other Sites Improve Your Search Engine Ranking

Getting listed on the first three pages of search engine listings is a goal for many business web sites. It’s also difficult to achieve, which explains why an entire industry has recently sprung up devoted to improving web site rankings.

If you elect to work on it yourself, there are three main ways to improve your web site’s ranking:

#1 Pay Search Engines Directly Sending $299 to Yahoo for a yearly listing or pay per click at Overture are two common choices. You can read more about these options here: http://www.zmoon.com/search.html.

Are Search Engines Worth It Any More?

The “Number One” Question – the question that I (and probably every other Internet marketing expert on the planet) am most frequently asked: “How do I get to be Number One in the search engines for widgets? After all, my company is the world’s leading provider of widgets – it’s ridiculous that these other nobody companies are coming up in search engines ahead of us . . . ”

Search Engine Musical Chairs

News broke this week that Yahoo has purchased the Inktomi search engine for around US$235 million. This is an interesting development in the search engine industry that may impact greatly on exactly where sites get their traffic from. Another new development in the past few weeks is the change to the HotBot service but first, I’d like to look at the ramifications of the Yahoo/Inktomi deal.

A Glimpse into the Lycos Search Engine

Recently, the Academy of Web Specialists had the good fortune of having Adam Soroca, a representative from Terra Lycos http://www.lycos.com, attend a chat session to visit with our students. Mr. Soroca provided some excellent information about Terra Lycos as well as their plans for the future.

As means of introduction, Adam is the Group Product Manager for Lycos InSite and is in charge of building a comprehensive suite of search marketing tools. He has general management responsibilities for the vision, execution, and delivery of the Web-based platforms.

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