Archive for the 'Search Engine Optimisation' Category

Oct 22 2008

Christmas Online Marketing Count Down!

Christmas is a boom time for retailers and not even the dim economic outlook will be able to hold back the hoards of shoppers as the Christmas deadline approaches. So you may ask, where does the internet fit into a retailers marketing strategy?As we know, people use the internet to research goods before finally buying online or in many cases offline. So when is the best time to start and ramp up your online marketing activities?

 

As we can see from Google Search Insights the serious demand starts to pick up in October and accelerates right up until two weeks before Christmas where it levels off before coming to an abrupt stop as you would expect. This means that November often has the highest overall traffic volume for Christmas gifts.

 

So, if you do not already have your Christmas online marketing ready to kick off this week you’d better pick up the phone and call your favourite online marketing agency who specialises in rapid direct response marketing campaigns! Yep, First Rate on 1300 553 996.

Search for “Christmas Gifts”

 

 

Looks like I’m not the only person to who has no idea what to buy people. So if you are an online retailer make sure you help people find that perfect gift. A good example of this is Getprice’s Christmas Gift Shopping Guide. http://www.getprice.com.au/christmas-gift-shopping-guide.htm 

 

And this approach does not need to be limited to consumer gifts, just checkout Skycity’s Christmas party ideas page. http://www.skycityauckland.co.nz/skycity/auckland/conventions/christmas-functions/christmas-functions_home.cfm

As we can see search is used to support a whole range of festive cheer from Christmas trees and lights to Christmas carols and games.

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Dec 11 2007

Credit Cards Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in Australia

Search Engine Rankings and Online Marketing Success

The major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) regularly index websites and rank these according to their relevance and popularity to a specific topic. Being at the top of the first results page ensures maximum visibility and can attract a large number of visitors.

Search engine rankings are therefore a good measure to determine the online marketing success of a website. Traffic volume, website conversion rate and total revenue generated from search and associated ROI are other (important metrics for online success).

Credit Card Industry – Search Engine Rankings Analysis

First Rate has investigated the Ranking Based Reach ™ (RBR™) in Chart 1, of the main competitors in the Australian credit card industry against the top 20 industry keywords.

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Oct 13 2007

Microsoft Launches New Search Index & Algorithms

As expected early last week, Microsoft announced the “New Live Search”. Todd, Oilman, posted live coverage, as did Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land of the Searchification event at Microsoft. Here is what Microsoft explained is new:

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