When marketers pursue a Search Engine Marketing strategy (by purchasing keywords), or an SEO strategy (to optimize their web site and communications), they enjoy one or all of the following benefits:

•  Increased Brand Equity – Increased brand name citings, increase brand awareness, and brand equity.

•  Increased Visibility – Marketer's products gain visibility when their name appears on first page of listings.

•  Increased Web site Traffic – Web users select, and visit, Web sites they can easily find.

•  Increase in Targeted leads – By understanding the keywords and segmentation of the target audience, establishing a dialogue with targets is more efficient, and more rewarding in quantity and quality.

•  Competition Advantage or Parity – By improving the ease of finding the marketers product, the marketer enables web users to select their product over the competition. This provides a competitive advantage, or, at least, ensures a more level playing field among web listings.

•  Decreased Cost-per-lead – Compared to other advertising media, paid search strategies are more efficient. Paid search costs dramatically less than Direct Mail and even less than Yellow Page print ads . As a result, industry trends show marketers are dedicating at least 15% of their budgets to paid search efforts.

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