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SEO Tools – Can Marketing People Learn New Tricks?

I’m certain that Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) was not a subject that was on the curriculum when I studied marketing. However, in the year 2011, it’s hard to call yourself a digital marketing consultant and not understand the drivers behind new customer acquisition via search engines like Google and Bing. SEO is not as sexy as witty, or zeitgeist catching creative. It’s not as trendy as social media or as cutting edge as location based services with augmented reality, but my informed guess is that Google and Bing send more customers to your site than any of these marketing methods. Despite the fact that most businesses say that being on the top of Google is one of their most important customer acquisition methods, marketing people (like me) have never really been given the SEO tools to help clients take control of this essential digital

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Location Location. Is ‘Search’ Part of Your Core Business?

The Internet has been with us for at while now. We hear stories about how 500 million people are members of sites like Facebook and more impressively how that ‘customer’ base has been built in just a few years. Nevertheless, there are still many businesses who don’t prioritise the internet as a source of revenue, who have been conditioned to think that a company’s web presence is a job for the guy in IT or that agency that charges more than the lawyers. This week I have seen headlines in traditional media with headlines like ‘Why you should consider Internet marketing’ as if it was still the bleeding edge of promotional activity – as if there was some reason why you might not do internet marketing. Functions that are fundamental to business are still being marginalised internally and that provides

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