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Search Engine Optimization for St. Louis Search Design

On the Internet, where everyone can hear you scream, your screams will only be loud enough if Google thinks they should be. This is where Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing come in.

What’s a marketer to do?

Aside from the obvious (contact The Answer Guy About Search Engine Optimization), the answer starts with understanding the difference between SEO and SEM. Search Engine Optimization is when you get Google to find you organically in search terms, and Search Engine Marketing is when you buy placement, such as through Google using Adwords.

A New York Times Author on SEO, SEM, Where They Intersect

If you haven’t jumped on the SEO bandwagon just yet, you’re forgiven. You may not forgive yourself so easily when getting ranked via Search Engine Optimization has gotten completely away from you, but SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing—often a discussion about marketing via Google AdWords—are surrounded by enough misunderstanding that holding off on this business change might seem prudent.

It’s not, and if you’re ready to mount an SEO campaign (or learn about your options), you should contact us, but in the meantime, a story:

Google AdWords Costs Jump 400%. Unless You Can Avoid That

For all the time I spend telling you about Search Engine Optimization, I don’t talk very much about Search Engine Marketing.  While SEO is but one part of SEM, most commonly we think of SEO as a separate, focused act—getting you more organic traffic in Google and other search engines’ results—and refer to Search Engine Marketing as something more “controlled”, like buying Google Adwords.

But buying Google Adwords is nothing resembling controlled.





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