Chapter 2
Using Search Marketing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Focusing on search marketing fundamentals
Analyzing search queries
Earning links to your web pages
No discipline in digital marketing has evolved over the years quite as dramatically as search marketing. In the early days of the internet, search engines like Alta Vista, Lycos, and Yahoo were fairly unsophisticated. Search marketers who understood the simple factors these sites used to rank websites could drive search engine traffic to a page regardless of its quality.
Today, search engines like Google consider hundreds of factors in deciding which web page to display for a search. In the current search marketing landscape, the best quality web pages usually win. Sure, loopholes still exist, exploited by less-than-reputable search marketers, but the scales have tipped toward those who play by the rules. In this chapter, you discover those rules and put yourself in a great position to receive traffic from the billions of searches that take place each day.
Search isn’t limited to big search engines like Google and Bing. Social media ...
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