Gone are the days when you used to be able to jam a bunch of keywords into your copy, publish subpar content and see your site rank in search engines. Long, long gone in fact. If anything, things have taken such a dramatic shift in search marketing that some are starting to think that SEO is dead. How so? Well, with the tweaks to Google’s algorithm over the past couple of years, most recently with…
In my last post I talked a bit about the different strategies – tactics – one could use in an online campaign. Today I’m going to walk you through how to actually decide which strategies to use. First, come up with a budget. Pay-per-click, banners, etc. are more expensive than article marketing or even a search engine optimized (SEO) news release campaign. You can allocate your funds across different tactics, both online and off. For example, SEO,…