19 June 2009

SEO Tip #8: SEO Success = ROI not rankings

Posted by: Mark Cook in SEO Tips

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Today's SEO Tips entry was via tokyito from Mercury Thread.

"SEO is about money not positions - follow the money not the rankings!"

While early judgement of SEO effectiveness can come from watching the net movement of various rankings, your campaign should be focused on ROI. There are a lot of companies that still chase "vanity" rankings: those that they'd like to have, but have no real business value.

Set your sights, your KPIs and your targets for the bottom line impact of your SEO campaign. How do you do this? Integrate your PPC and SEO campaigns and try to estimate the value of keywords before you start off, this will give you a much better idea how much you should invest into SEO to get a return over your campaign period.

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Previous SEO Tips:

SEO Tip #7: Localise, don't just translate
SEO Tip #6: Get the on-page basics right
SEO Tip #5: Check the use before date
SEO Tip #4: Integrate SEO and PPC Campaigns
SEO Tip #3: Using Twitter
SEO Tip #2: Create Unique Content
SEO Tip #1: Stop! Keyword Research


Post by Further search marketing.

This is so true. Recently my company reviewed a bonus structure for me. I am an in-house SEO Strategist for a company in Olympia,WA. They are obsessed with ranking for certain keywords and irritated that so many competitors with ugle, poorly-optimized pages beat us out in organic rankings for certain terms. I constantly have to remind them that ranking on page one of Google is completely meaningless if your revenue from that term is $0.00. Yes, you must balance revenue potential, traffic, rankings and conversion rates altogether to make your SEO have any meaning or value.

Comment posted 13.04.12 @ 17:56

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