Thursday, April 30, 2009

SEO 101 | Idaho SEO | Market Research - Know your competition

2. Understand your competitors.

The second step in creating an effective online strategy is doing your due diligence on your local market competitors (or if your target market is regional/national/worldwide - then your closest competitors) online or brick and mortar. One of the internet's most fabulous contributions IMO,is benchmark data and intelligence. Anything that happens online is trackable, and very well tracked, don't kid yourself.

Why take the shot in the dark or reinvent the wheel when you have competitive intelligence at your fingertips -- for free?? iMarketing wise, you will save yourself alot of effort and money (!) not taking on the big behemoths with deep, deep pockets to get that all encompassing, general keyword. If you are a small fish in a big pond, you will not be using your marketing dollars wisely. Could your website overtake the big guns who have achieved a PageRank of 5? Sure it can be done, but with a lot of time and a lot of work. And I still operate with my philosophy that you are in the business of running your business. Let us data geeks do the SEO sweat equity, I say.

A good SEO company is far more than managing PPC or getting inbound links, a full iMarketing strategy should include some insight consulting on your behalf to show you what your competitors are doing. You just might gain some insight to where your target market is as well.


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