Does SEO help?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by silentscreamer, Aug 25, 2007.

  1. #1
    How does SEO is helpful to run a business? Also is it good only for e-business?
     
    silentscreamer, Aug 25, 2007 IP
  2. speda1

    speda1 Well-Known Member

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    The question is not entirely clear, but you have to have a website in order to do SEO.
     
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  3. mixke

    mixke Prominent Member

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    SEO is done to get the desired rankings for the websites [ it can take some good time ] and hence, you can monetize em !!
     
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    SEO is definetely helpful for business as if it done correctly then it can generate $$$$ for you :).
    Nopes its good for any business and sometimes even to promote your offline business
    Cheers
     
    jammy69, Aug 25, 2007 IP
  5. priyakochin

    priyakochin Banned

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    SEO is helpful for all business.I will try to explain it.

    99% of the people use search engines to know/buy something from internet.If ur site is having good result in SE u can get this visitors and have a good business.
     
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    grg Guest

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    Of course it is good for business. It is great for great business.
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    If you like free traffic, yes SEO is good for you. If you want paid traffic, probably not that important :)
     
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    Ha..Ha..,Speda1, I agree, Silent' didn't phrase the question(s) very well. But the answer(s) is: SEO is most valuable in marketing your website; getting traffic, and if you have a brick-n-motar location, a web presence can certainly be helpful in increasing visitors and customers.
     
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    Zafar Ahmed Active Member

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    Would you buy something from a website which is PR0? I would rather buy it from a good PR website.
     
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    gocubs19 Well-Known Member

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    my site got indexed by google in 3 days

    which generates at least 11 hits a day without me doing anything
     
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  11. Grumps

    Grumps Peon

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    Basically,people uses search engine to search for sites/products to buy or anything that they are looking for. SEO helps to make your site rank better on targeted keyword and it returns traffic. Those are your potential buyer/users for whatever site that you're doing. SEO is very important regardless of what you're doing on the web.
     
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  12. Dan Schulz

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    Search engine optimization is the task of taking a Web site's content and optimizing it so that the phrases people search for (called keywords) can be found on the major search engines. Anyone who's taken the time to write qualitiy content that's optimized for both their human visitors (it doens't sound like a broken record or a sales pitch) and the search engines (targeted keywords that people are searching for) will obviously want their pages (note I said pages, not sites; since search engines rank pages and for the most part could care less about sites) to appear at the top of the search engines' results pages (SERPs).

    Most people are mistaken by what they consider SEO to be, and thus chase after the latest SEO tricks and gimmicks the way that desperate third-rate lawyers looking for their next meal chase after ambulances. Not only is this a waste of their time (especially when you consider the limited returns compared to the amount of time invested in getting those returns), but it's also unnecessary.

    Focus on the fundamentals, which are writing quality content that people would killl their own mothers to link to, code your Web site using proper semantic markup that follows the proper source code order (header, menu, content, sidebar(s), footer) to maximize the benefits of the keywords that are already in the content (traditional typographic and literary conventions really work well here), and then promote your Web site (tell your friends, and have them tell their friends, and have their friends tell their friends, and so on) so that you can get the word out that your site exists. Put your Web site's URL in your business cards, mailing letters, official correspondence (like your stationary) so that your clients know about your site as well. Even placing the URL on your storefront (if a B&M) will help - a lot of tatoo parlors here in Aurora, Illinois are doing that and it helps to reinforce thier brand. In other words, light a fire under other peoples' rear ends so they start talking about you - and let's face it. A lot of people spend a lot of time online, maintaining blogs and the like - chances are good that if they like your Web site and what it provides, they'll talk about it, the people who read those blogs will talk about it as well. It's called word of mouth marketing.

    There's even a book on the subject called "Word of Mouth Marketing - How Smart Companies Get People Talking" by Andy Sernovitz, with a forward by Seth Godin and an afterword by Guy Kawasaki. I highly recommend reading that (it should be available at your local public library).

    (Off-Topic: gocubs19, are you a fellow Chicago Cubs fan by any chance?)
     
    Dan Schulz, Aug 25, 2007 IP
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    SEO is extremely helpful. If you ever want high search engine rankings, you have to do tons of SEO.
     
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    This forum explain every single bit of SEO and you're asking is it helpful.

    Does it look like there are over 50K members who are nerds who are in this forum learning and helping each other in some sort of SEO related work or not. Next time i suggest you to watch n learn from all threads. Browse through the forum before you actually make these stupid n sense less threads.
     
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  15. Dan Schulz

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    Calm down, Ace.
     
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    Most "normal" people that are using the net does not even know what PR is :)
     
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    Nope, SEO is worthless. That's why there's so much time, money, and effort put into it. ;)
     
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    Organic SEO is essential to my e-business for delivering targeted traffic looking for quality SEO Services for effective Internet Marketing campaigns :rolleyes:
    :eek: :rolleyes:
     
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