Joint Plan Search Engine Marketing - What is it?

Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages through the use of search engine optimization, paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion.

Our search engine marketing primary objective is to have your website and specific pages rank as high as ethically possible in the major search engines.  We use market leading tools and memberships with leading organisations to keep our knowledge up to date.  This allows us to provide the best possible service and help you achieve your marketing goals.

Joint Plan search engine marketing encompasses two elements.

• Search engine optimsation
• Search Engine Paid Placement (Also know as Search Engine Marketing, confusing I know.)

Search Engine Optimisation (Organic / Natural)

Natural or Organic Search Engine positioning is a process of refining your web page content and keywords over time to improve your rankings.  This is not an instant fix and will take time (2 - 3 months minimum) to start to see results as it is a natural progression rather than a paid placement within a search engine result page.

When you discuss your requirements with Joint Plan, we will tailor our Service to meet your needs.

What does Search Engine Optimsation involve?

Each Optimisation activity can be quite detailed in nature and we've provided a more in depth SEO explanation to help you understand what goes into improving website rankings in search engines based on the following points.

• Business Goals & SEO Questionnaire
• Competitive Intelligence, Ranking Evaluation, Competitor's Search Presence
• Before, During, & After Client Web Site Ranking Reports
• Ongoing Rank Monitoring
• Research: Extensive Broad / Targeted Keywords
• Silo / New Landing Page Recommendations
• Complete Meta Tag Optimisation:Keywords, Page Titles & Page Descriptions
• Text Optimization:alt tags, h1-h6 tags, body text, internal / external
• html file naming, hyperlinks , link suggestions (in-bound / out-bound)
• Dmoz Directory Submission
• Indexing Search Engine Submissions for MSN, Yahoo, Google

If you are interested to know more, look at our guide to Website Search Engine Optimisation to learn the specifics of On-Page and Off-Page Search Engine Optimisation

Search Engine Paid Placement (Managed)

Paid Placement (PPC) takes you from keyword selection, account set up and management, to tracking results, adjusting ads to improve click-thru and measuring Retrun on Investment (ROI). This can give relative instant results to increase traffic but it's critical your website landing page (where the Ads takes the visitor to when they click on your Ad) is written to get that visitor to a lead or sale (conversation).

When you discuss your requirements with Joint Plan, we will tailor our Service to meet your needs.

What does Search Engine Paid Placement involve?

Each activity can be quite detailed in nature and we've provided a more in depth search engine paid placement explanation to help you understand what goes into preparing for your advertising based on the following points.

• Business Goals / SEM Questionnaire
• Web Page Relevancy Evaluation for Sponsored Ad Click Through
• Competitor's Search Presence, Competitive Intelligence, Bid Ranking & their Cost Per Click (CPC) Spend Evaluation
• Pay Per Click / Paid Placement Account Set Up (Yahoo / Google / MSN)
• Extensive Targeted / Broad Keyword Research
• "Creative" (ad) copy writing including: Major Keywords / Call to Action / Relevant URL's
• Creative ad A & B Testing
• Contextual Advertising
• Local Search Paid Placement (optional)
• Tracking URL's (Confirmation / Thank You for Your Order Pages)
• Monthly Bid Management
• Monthly ROI / PPC / CPC Reports
• Google Analytics Set Up (optional)