Friday, July 31, 2009

SME folks, make SEO your basic business function and grow your digital presence organically.

To SME Folks:

SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises) of different industries have unique innovation potential. They are generally higher in economy adaptability, and agile in developing and implementing new ideas; along with their simpler organizational structure, they are naturally more innovative within the organization and in the external market.

However, their disadvantages are that they financially and technically less resourceful, have weaker external technical networks, limited marketing resources, and lack of management skill. This is why SEO (search engine optimization) is one crucial marketing and digital branding channel SMEs should commit themselves to: It promotes the growth of your search-engine market organically and acts as an ROI-boost factor of your digital marketing efforts by facilitating the optimization the performance of other digital marketing channels.

We know with our guts that in this digital era, all serious business development exercises would need to achieve some sort of market information mastery – SMEs need to take care of both the short head and the long tail markets too. Doing SEO is more than just topping your website hyperlinks on the 1st SERP (search engine result page), it's about better market segmentation in the end.

Just as all crucial business operations, SEO is not a one time process simply because there are always people competing for the same search engine presence as you do. To manage your brand and services across this search engines spaces, you need an analytics-ROI approach of doing SEO.