FREQUENTLY USED TERMS IN SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
If you are new to the concept of SEO, then you are just about to begin about the terms that are widely used in it. For any online business website, SEO is like magic, to see your website in the first page of Google and Yahoo if you key in a business related keyword that you have chosen. It is common sense to know that when you get your website listed in the first page for your business related keyword, you will be attracting a huge influx of visitors, who search for products that you deal or sell. Thus, imagine the kind of business growth resulting from doing website optimization.
Let’s see some of the most frequently used terms by the SEO experts,
1. SEO – Search Engine Optimization.
2. PPC – Pay Per Click.
3. CPC – Cost Per Click.
4. SERP – Search Engine Results Page.
5. ROI – Return On Investment.
6. SMM or SMO – Social Media Marketing or Social Media Optimization.
1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): The intent on performing SEO is to position our website in the first page of leading search engines in order to have easy visibility and thereby attracting greater volume of visitors and make considerable business growth. SEO is also cost effective compared to other marketing strategies. SEO is done entirely on internet, it does not involve door-to-door canvasing or investing on big advertisements, etc.
2. Pay Per Click (PPC): The intent of PPC is to do online advertising for a business. Through PPC, we make our advertisement to appear to targeted audience, and if someone clicks on the advertisement, it will lead to your website, from where you have a chance to convert into a potential customer.
3. Cost Per Click (CPC): CPC forms as a part of PPC. The main advantage of CPC is that you can fix the cost for a single click (helps to keep in control over budget). In fact, Google Ad Words has a CPC pricing system.
4. Search Engine Results Page (SERP): This is basically a tool which lets us know how the website is positioned or ranked in the search engines for a given specific keyword query.
5. Return On Investment (ROI): ROI need to be done to know what would be the returns from pursuing a SEO campaign.
6. Social Media Marketing or Social Media Optimization (SMM or SMO): Social media marketing is the trend of the day and it is fast catching up with the masses. It is also proving to be a powerful when it comes to marketing, where person to person can share thoughts, give feedback, give ratings, etc. Social media could be split up into various categories such as Social News (Digg, News vine, Reddit, propeller), Social Sharing (Flickr, NetLog, SheToldMe, Tumblr), Social Networking (Facebook, twitter, Linkdin), and Social Book marking (Stumble, Delicious).