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As a CEO

You are constantly looking for ways to improve your company.

Sales fluctuate, and marketing efforts adjust accordingly.

But finding alternative ways to meet your goals can be difficult. Traditional methods of company growth are saturated with your own efforts as well as your competitors'. However, what many CEOs don’t realize is that there is another channel where you can easily market yourself that can quickly demonstrate an ROI you can brag about.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is entering the scene as one of the most beneficial things you can do for your business. Few marketing channels offer the measurable results that search does.

The C-Level Overview of SEO

Everyone knows what Google is. In fact, Google owns about 81% of the US search engine market.

This means that anything that shows up on Google is going to be seen by lots and lots of people. However, that is also the biggest problem for SEO...

Being seen.

Google gives you two options for this:

Pay to be seen:

Paying to be seen is often referred to as Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. You will be seen in prominent places on Google, but it will be costly over time.

or

Naturally rank:

Naturally ranking higher on the search engine results page via SEO is harder to do, but presents a higher ROI and a better long term investment for your company.

Now is the time, as the CEO, to ask yourself some

very important questions:

to ask yourself some very important questions:

Do I throw lots of money into temporary gains that might improve my website's performance?

or

Invest in a long-term solution that has the potential to acquire customers at an extremely low cost?

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PPC vs SEO

It's time to go into a little more detail

PPC typically displays on the top and right side of the search engine results page.
See the gray areas on the image here? If you are just starting your internet marketing efforts, PPC is a good way to get things going; however,

• It can get expensive
• Each visitor costs you money
• Users' eyes are being trained to ignore PPC ads
• Organic Search Results are pages that are optimized for search engines.

This is where users are looking for relevant information. Being here is technically free and the higher up you are, the more traffic you will have coming to your website.

In fact, recent studies have shown...

The #1

Organic search result receives

33% of traffic.

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What to Expect from SEO

Lasting ROI

SEO provides many benefits for your company that traditional marketing and PPC can’t offer. For one, it is geared towards long term strategies. Over time, you will really start to see the fruits of your labor.

Higher Rankings

With SEO strategies in place, you can expect to rank higher in Google. With each increase in ranking, you can expect to see additional traffic coming to your website.

More Sales

Optimizing for specific keywords not only allows you to rank higher and get more traffic, but it allows you to get traffic that converts. This traffic not only looks at your website, but they buy your products and services. The higher you rank, the more traffic you’ll receive, which ultimately means more sales.

Measure Everything

All that being said, the biggest advantage SEO has over other marketing efforts is that every element of the process is measurable. The web gives you lots of pieces of data and statistical measurements that allow you to easily analyze and adjust your campaigns online, giving you room to improve and further optimize your efforts. This, again, will only result in a higher ROI and more sales.

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What does it take?

There are so many different elements that contribute to SEO

It can quickly become very complicated. Typical SEO agencies might have five or six different job types collaborating on one single project at a time, each of these being a different role in the project.

Web Developers
Graphic Designers
Web Designers
Marketing Managers
Content Editors
Outreachers

Truth is:

All these skillsets are required for the different elements of SEO.

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Elements of SEO

The Nitty Gritty

First of all, there is both on-page and off-page SEO. Google takes these two things into account when it decides how high your website should show up. However, within each of these categories are several more areas of improvement.

01

On-Page SEO

On-page SEO is geared towards the things you can do directly to your website to encourage better search engine rankings. Here is a watered down list of on-page SEO elements:

• Quality of the page content
• Relevancy of keywords in the page
• How engaged are your visitors
• How new is your content
• HTML elements within the page

• How fast your page loads
• Mobile version of your website
• Design of your page URLs
• No duplicated content
• Your total website architecture

02

Off-Page SEO

Off-page SEO can be a little more complicated and harder to accomplish. However, some of the most defining elements of SEO are a part of off-page SEO. This part is primarily dealing with how much trust your website carries. Here are some off-page SEO elements that you need to consider:

• Number of links to your website
• Quality of the links to your website
• Text used to link to your website

• History of your site
• Age of your website
• Social reputation

All of these different elements combined create just a portion of what we know Google uses to rank websites with. We don’t know everything Google accounts for, but these are some of the major influencers the industry has recognized.

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A CEO’s SEO Team

An Internal Undertaking

As you've learned, SEO can be extremely demanding of several different roles in your company. Internally, you will need your technical/IT staff to collaborate with your marketing team. Otherwise, this will make for some pretty awkward situations.

For instance,

You don’t want your IT staff writing copy and organizing certain elements to be displayed on your homepage. You won't want your valuable technical team wasting time researching keywords and writing body copy, even if they are good at interpersonal communication.

On the other side,

You certainly don’t want the marketing team touching the essential code of your website. It doesn't take much to mess up this complex system that is necessary for your website to function. This can sacrifice many things besides functionality, including site security.

It will take a team effort to accomplish this and everyone on board should be up to date on the latest SEO news and strategies. One simple mistake can ruin years of work for your SEO strategies.

Seem Tough?

As the CEO, you need to stress the importance of this new project. Hiring a consultant is a good idea for introducing this new strategy to your newly developed team. They will hopefully train your team and get them up to speed for the coming challenges ahead.

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