A Rexair representive step-by-step approach for success with search engine marketing.

A Rexair representive step-by-step approach for success with search engine marketing.

Has anyone mentioned to you that 192 days have passed since the beginning of the year?

As if racing off for next year's cork popping celebration, 2005 is rapidly marching on, yet for may web entrepreneurs few visitors are marching over to see what's up. Are they marching to a different drummer or is it that your attempts to generate traffic are just not keeping the beat?

Are you getting your piece of the pie? Internet retail sales are projected to reach up to 110 billion dollars in 2005. (Source: Shop.org/Forrester 05/2005)

With 173 days remaining in 2005, imagine how much different your business would be if you could get even a single "interested" visitor EVERY OTHER DAY to come to your site.

If you're asking "What approach should I consider for my online marketing?" Maybe a little internet advertising is in order? Seems that's what a lot of successful online marketers are doing. And of all the methods out there, nothing seems to beat setting up a little search engine listing under keywords matching your niche audience and pay on a "per click" basis as they arrive at your site.

Search marketing will represent 39% of all online advertising spending this year and will account for 44% of online ad spending in 2010. (Source: Forrester Research 02/2005)

Almost every new report that comes out has stories and statistics that prove "it can be done". Yes, online sales are happening. Reports are continuing, sales are up, and the drum beats on.

According to Verisign (05/2005), The $4.4 billion racked up this year by online shoppers is a 24 percent increase over the same period last year. Fuelling the dollars spent was a 31 percent increase in the total number of transactions, up to 54.8 million this year. Monday May 2 was the peak day for online shopping during the Mother's Day period, as $473 million worth from 5.43 million transactions were reported.

But I'm A Rexair representive, could it be a bit different for people like me?

Maybe you are thinking that "some things" sell online but not your homecare & vacuum cleaners. Nothing could be further from the truth. In most cases, it is not the product or service that hinders a sale, it boils down to traffic, strategy and page presentation. Whether you advertise using Google's AdWords, or do pay-per-click at Overture, Yahoo or MSN search, it's the campaign strategy that's important.

In my previous blog entries (last week and the week prior) we started our series of PPC search engine tips. These tips will unquestionanly help your marketing campaign and hopefully put some of the statistics on your side. So as promised, below you'll find this weeks installment of search engine tips...

Search engine campaign tips:

• If your product or service is something that can be related to a locale, like a city, state or region you may be able to find some ripe tomatoes in phrases like: 'retirement homes in Florida', 'Mississippi flat rate phone service', 'herbal sunscreen for southwestern sun', 'indoor air filters for Los Angeles'.
• Discover more keywords by narrowing down to extreme specifics. People can be VERY specific when they search. Use names of months and years like '2004 tax savings', 'May flowers', 'Christmas of 2005' or 'September back to school supplies'.
  
  Let's say you are marketing a broad line of herbal products... why not get a list of all herbs (there may be thousands) and use that list as a keyword list. Maybe your product doesn't contain every herb on the list, but people searching for any ONE herb specifically may be interested in others. Try specific model numbers, makes and designs if your products are sometimes referred to this way: 'Epson stylus CX6400', 'Apple G5', etc.
• Add adjectives to your keywords like: big, purple, new, cheap, affordable, soft, aromatic, healthy, etc.

In earlier blog posts you'll find the first and second installment of my PPC tips.

In addition, I've written a many 'how-to' articles specifically to help get your internet marketing strategy on-track. You might find these internet marketing articles for Rexair interesting or helpful.

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